About this title: Roy Underhill brings to woodworking the intimate relationship with wood that craftsmen enjoyed in the days before power tools. Beginning with a guide to trees and tools, "The Woodwright's Shop" includes chapters on gluts and mauls, shaving horses, rakes, chairs, weaving wood, hay forks, dough bowls, lathes, blacksmithing, dovetails, panel-frame construction, log houses, and timber-frame construction.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780807814840ISBN:0807814849
Description: Fair in fair dust jacket. Price clipped. Ex-library. Nice hard cover, acetate over dust jacket, wear to bottom edges of cover, small tears on top of dust jacket spine, light aging to pages, library stamps & stickers, first blank page cut out, stk #2010e9. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 202 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr
Date Published: 1981-09-01
ISBN-13:9780807840825ISBN:0807840823
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The University of North Carolina
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780807840825ISBN:0807840823
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780807840825ISBN:0807840823
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 211 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. 8 1/2 x 11 foremat; 2020 pages incl index read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA PR
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780807840825ISBN:0807840823
Description: New. Roy Underhill has captivated thousands with his books and television programs on old-time woodworking. He brings to woodworking the intimate relationship with wood that craftsmen enjoyed in the days before power tools. Combining historical background... read more
Edition: Ex Library
Binding: Oversize Hardback
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S. A
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780807814840ISBN:0807814849
Description: Good in Good jacket. Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 202 pages; many b&w photos. read more
"Underhill is a very good writer. He's descriptive, clear & concise whether he's describing a bark pattern or a how-to project. Yet, at the same time, he takes time to go beyond the necessities & provide tidbits that made me want to read beyond his books. Often these are historical (e.g. Thomas Jefferson's carpenter) or alternate methods to try.
This book is a good reference for any carpenter, history buff or writer. For the carpenter today, with all the power tools, it shows methods that are still valid & often forgotten in the mass of machines & paint-by-number instructions. Historically, he's a gold mine. He helped rebuild Colonial Williamsburg & is well known for his attention to authenticity. Writers can learn how it was really done before the invention of electricity & what kind of trees & wood were available in an old growth forest. Most get it wrong.
There are a number of projects outlined in this book, both practical & fun. It assumes you have some knowledge of woodworking, but not a lot of tools are needed."
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