Woodwright's Companion: Exploring Traditional Woodcraft
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Book Overview
With The Woodwright's Companion, 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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0807840955
ISBN13:9780807840955
Release Date:January 1983
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:203 Pages
Weight:1.52 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 8.6" x 11.0"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Fascinating #2
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
The second of Underhill's Woodwright books has some more practical information than #1 (Woodwright's Shop). If you have never read any of the series (there are 6 now) you need to know that he is stingy when it comes to actually describing how to make the tools. From a day-to-day standpoint, you will use very little of what is contained in here. This is more of an armchair woodworking book.
St Roy
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
The Woodwright's Companion is chop full of valuable information about traditional woodcraft. While some may skim the pages and see the sections about building hurdles or riving a roof, and feel the book is out of touch with today's woodcraft. That is far from the truth. Inside there are tons of information about saw sharpening, tree felling and using hand planes that any woodworker can use in today's woodcraft. The section on tuning up and using modern and wooden hand planes is worth the price alone. There have been a lot woodworking books written about the emergence and use of hand planes within the past few years but Roy originally wrote that chapter 26 years ago when he wrote The Woodwright's Companion.
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