The Woodwright's Companion: Exploring Traditional Woodcraft

by Roy Underhill

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.

Genres: Woodwork, Nonfiction

204 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1981

Reviews

[Ted Gurley]

Can’t imagine not returning to this Underhill book to refresh my understanding. A collection of well researched essays about everting from planes, saws to home building.

[Jeff Youngstrom]

My review from August 14, 1999