Roy Underhill brings to woodworking the intimate relationship with wood that craftsmen enjoyed in the days before power tools. Beginning with a guide to trees and tools, The Woodwright's Shop includes chapters on gluts and mauls, shaving horses, rakes, chairs, weaving wood, hay forks, dough bowls, lathes, blacksmithing, dovetails, panel-frame construction, log houses, and timber-frame construction....

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.' Underhill's latest book 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 traditonal woodworking techniques still used by the Colonial Williamsburg housewrights. More than 260 photographs complement the text....

350 pages.Pub Date:-September 1999 Book Description: Authors Roy Underhill and Nat Gertler give the reader a history of how MP3 came to exist and what the technology is. They explain how and where to find the technology as well as how and where to find the music. They explore the legal issues that are brewing from recording companies and artists; what the implications are for the public; what can and cannot be digitized. Roy and Nat share with the reader "digital successes" of bands and individuals who have built success through MP3. They offer pointers and tips for would-be artists who want to make a run for the music industry. Roy brings more of the technological and historical expertise to the project whereas Nat puts the information into the easily read, conversational tone of the Complete Idiot's Guides. The number of estimated Internet users tops nearly 153.25 million for the world. The United States has an estimated 87 million users online. Internet users have begun to realize that there are huge amounts of new music available through the Internet. MP3 has put power into the hands of the music listener and the small performer. Many recording companies are scrambling to counter the blow that MP3 could deliver to their industry. MP3 allows small performer to make their music available to a wide array of listeners which they otherwise could not have done due to the often impregnable recording company wall. Music periodicals like New Music Monthly, Jazz Times, and Rhythm have run cover stories on Internet music over the past 60 days. Audience: Any person who now uses (or wants to use) the Internet. This book will be valuable to all user levels of the Internet. It is especially good for the novice who is intimidated by computer jargon - yet wants to learn about music on the Internet. This book is great for anyone who enjoys listening to music as well as making music him or herself. About the Author: Roy Underhill and Nat Gertler. Roy has been appointed legal representative of MP3.com, the public face of this music revolution. He is a recording artist himself as well as a music publisher....

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, hewer, log-builder, sawyer, carpenter, joiner, turner, and cabinetmaker. Each trade brings new tools and techniques; each trade uses a different character of material; but all are united by the grain in the wood and the enduring mastery of muscle and steel.

Hundreds of detailed drawings by Eleanor Underhill (Roy's daughter) illustrate the hand tools and processes for shaping and joining wood. A special concluding section contains detailed plans for making your own foot-powered lathes, workbenches, shaving horses, and taps and dies for wooden screws.

The Woodwright's Guide is informed by a lifetime of experience and study. A former master craftsman at Colonial Williamsburg, Roy has inspired millions to "just say no to power tools" through his continuing work as a historian, craftsman, activist, and teacher. In The Woodwright's Guide, he takes readers on a personal journey through a legacy of off-the-grid, self-reliant craftsmanship. It's a toolbox filled with insight and technique as well as wisdom and confidence for the artisan in all of us....

For more than twenty years, Roy Underhill has taught the techniques of traditional woodcraft with muscle-powered tools. With his four previous books and his popular PBS series, The Woodwright's Shop, now in its sixteenth season, Roy has inspired millions to take up chisel and plane.

The master woodwright returns here with instructions for handcrafting an appealing selection of projects from the American woodworking tradition. The Woodwright's Apprentice begins with directions for building a workbench. Each successive project builds new skills for the apprentice woodworker—from frame construction to dovetailing, turning, steam-bending, and carving. Among the twenty items featured are an African chair, a telescoping music stand, a walking-stick chair, a fireplace bellows, and a revolving Windsor chair.

Designed both for woodworking novices and for more seasoned woodworkers looking for enjoyable projects, the book includes step-by-step directions, complete with easy-to-follow photographs and measured drawings, and an illustrated glossary of tools and terms. All of the pieces presented here are based on projects featured in past and upcoming seasons of The Woodwright's Shop television show....

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, hewer, log-builder, sawyer, carpenter, joiner, turner, and cabinetmaker. Each trade brings new tools and techniques; each trade uses a different character of material; but all are united by the grain in the wood and the enduring mastery of muscle and steel.

Hundreds of detailed drawings by Eleanor Underhill (Roy's daughter) illustrate the hand tools and processes for shaping and joining wood. A special concluding section contains detailed plans for making your own foot-powered lathes, workbenches, shaving horses, and taps and dies for wooden screws.

The Woodwright's Guide is informed by a lifetime of experience and study. A former master craftsman at Colonial Williamsburg, Roy has inspired millions to "just say no to power tools" through his continuing work as a historian, craftsman, activist, and teacher. In The Woodwright's Guide, he takes readers on a personal journey through a legacy of off-the-grid, self-reliant craftsmanship. It's a toolbox filled with insight and technique as well as wisdom and confidence for the artisan in all of us....