The woodwright's companion : exploring traditional woodcraft / Roy Underhill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Underhill, Roy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Woodwork.

Woodworking tools.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1983.

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.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Thanks""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Finding""; ""2. The Forest""; ""3. Helves and Handles""; ""4. Saws""; ""5. The Whetstone Quarry""; ""6. Crow Chasers and Turkey Calls""; ""7. Hurdles""; ""8. Whimsy Diddling""; ""9. Two Tools""; ""10. Candle Stands and the Sliding Dovetail""; ""11. Planes""; ""12. The Sash Joiner""; ""13. Riven Roof""; ""14. Pitman's Progress""; ""15. The Housewrights""; ""Selected Chronological Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798890867308

9780807869826

0807869821