Author : Roy Underhill
Release : 2011-07-01
Genre : Crafts & Hobbies
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 821/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Woodwright's Companion by : Roy Underhill
Download or read book The Woodwright's Companion written by Roy Underhill. This book was released on 2011-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.