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The Woodwright's Guide
Roy Underhill
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Description for The Woodwright's Guide
Paperback. Explores one of nine trades of woodcraft: faller, countryman and cleaver, hewer, log-builder, sawyer, carpenter, joiner, turner, and cabinetmaker. This guide takes readers on a journey through a legacy of off-the-grid, self-reliant craftsmanship. Illustrator(s): Underhill, Eleanor. Num Pages: 250 pages, 300 drawings, index. BIC Classification: WKDW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 217 x 14. Weight in Grams: 554.
This book is written by America's master of traditional woodcraft.For thirty years, Roy Underhill's PBS program, ""The Woodwright's Shop,"" has brought classic hand-tool craftsmanship to viewers across America. Now, in his seventh book, Roy shows how to engage the mysteries of the splitting wedge and the cutting edge to shape wood from forest to furniture.Beginning with the standing tree, each chapter of ""The Woodwright's Guide"" explores one of nine trades of woodcraft: faller, countryman and cleaver, hewer, log-builder, sawyer, carpenter, joiner, turner, and cabinetmaker. Each trade brings new tools and techniques; each trade uses a different character of material; but ... Read more
This book is written by America's master of traditional woodcraft.For thirty years, Roy Underhill's PBS program, ""The Woodwright's Shop,"" has brought classic hand-tool craftsmanship to viewers across America. Now, in his seventh book, Roy shows how to engage the mysteries of the splitting wedge and the cutting edge to shape wood from forest to furniture.Beginning with the standing tree, each chapter of ""The Woodwright's Guide"" explores one of nine trades of woodcraft: faller, countryman and cleaver, hewer, log-builder, sawyer, carpenter, joiner, turner, and cabinetmaker. Each trade brings new tools and techniques; each trade uses a different character of material; but ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807859148
SKU
V9780807859148
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99-3
About Roy Underhill
The longtime master housewright at Colonial Williamsburg, Roy Underhill is the leading authority on old-time woodworking techniques. He created The Woodwright's Shop for public television in 1979. The series, produced by the University of North Carolina Center for Public Television, has aired nationally since 1981, with thirteen new programs introduced each year. Roy is a graduate of the University of ... Read more
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