The Woodwright's Guide: Working Wood with Wedge and Edge

by Roy Underhill and Eleanor Underhill

Book Overview

For thirty years, Roy Underhill's PBS program, The Woodwright's Shop, has brought classic hand-tool craftsmanship to viewers across America. Now, in his seventh book, Roy shows how to engage the mysteries of the splitting wedge and the cutting edge to shape wood from forest to furniture.

Beginning with the standing tree, each chapter of The Woodwright's Guide explores one of nine trades of woodcraft: faller, countryman and cleaver,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807859141
• ISBN13: 9780807859148
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 11.0"