Bibliograph

The woodwright's companion, exploring traditional woodcraft, Roy Underhill

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The woodwright's companion, exploring traditional woodcraft, Roy Underhill

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The woodwright's companion

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Roy Underhill

Sub title

exploring traditional woodcraft

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

Classification