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

Summary:

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.

Record details

ISBN: 0807840955
ISBN: 0807815403
Physical Description: 189 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1983]
Copyright: ©1983

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (page 190) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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