Description
Condition: Good – 202 Pages
This is a practical guide to traditional woodcraft and is the companion to the popular PBS television series featuring the author, Roy Underhill. For anyone interested in traditional “hands-on” woodworking from selecting and harvesting a living tree to creating useful wooden tools, chairs, wood weaving, framing, log houses, plus much more, this is a “must have” book!It is written in easy to read format and enhanced with numerous color and black and white pictures.
Topics include the following:
- Trees
- Tools
- Gluts and Mauls
- Shaving Horses
- Rakes
- Chairs
- Weaving Wood
- Hay Forks
- Dough Bowls
- Three Lathes
- Blacksmithing
- Dovetails
- Panel-Frame Construction
- Log Houses
- Sources
Printed in 1987 – Seventh Printing – 202 pages – Soft bound. Condition: Good
