The Woodwright's Companion: Exploring Traditional Woodcraft

by Roy Underhill

Overview

With The Woodwright's Companinon, Roy Underhill continues to demonstrate "how to start with a tree and an axe and make one thing after another until you have a house and everything in it." This volume features chapters on helves and handles, saws, the search for the whetstone quarry, crow chasers and turkey calls, hurdles, whimmy diddles, snaplines and marking gauges, candle stands, planes, window sash, riven shingles, and pit sawing. The final chapter offers a glimpse of traditional woodworking techniques still used by the Colonial Williamsburg housewrights. More than 260 photographs complement the text.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807840955
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date:	04/01/1983
Edition description:	1
Pages:	203
Sales rank:	1,128,459
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

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 North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds a master's degree from Duke University.

Table of Contents

Finding and Buying Old Tools

The Forest

Making Handles

Saw Sharpening and Saw-Making

Quarrying Whetstones

Crow Chasers and Turkey Calls

Making Wattle and Bar Hurdle Fencing

Toymaking

Line Reels and Marking Gauges

Tripod Candle Stand

Understanding and Using Planes

Making Wooden Window Sash

Making and Laying Split Shingle Roofs

Pit-Sawing Timber

Virginia Timber-Framing