The Woodwright’s Guide: Working Wood with Wedge and Edge
- ISBN13: 9780807859148
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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 Woodw
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Review by Dennis G. Nelson for The Woodwright’s Guide: Working Wood with Wedge and Edge
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I have been watching The Woodwright Shop on TV for 30 years. I have purchased all of Roy’s books as they came out. At first I thought this was just a selective reprint of the others but now that I have read it I truly believe this is his best one yet. It covers the topics of the other books and pulls out the true “liquor” of knowledge of the other books. Certainly it is because of this person I have been doing blacksmithing and traditional woodworking for decades now. He is a wonderful and steadfast inspiration.
Review by George Mckinney for The Woodwright’s Guide: Working Wood with Wedge and Edge
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“It’s just a piece of wood, but let’s see what your axe handle has to say.” (p.4) From the opening sentence of St. Roy’s latest tome exudes the essence of Underhill, both myth and man. As a young boy, my grandfather had me chopping wood for my breakfast, and the only thing I remember my axe handle saying were words not fit to use here, but when Roy visits an axe handle, it suddenly springs to lively discussion, relishing it’s job in the Feller’s hands. And therein is the first thing I learned from this book; he (historically speaking) who is a “Feller” is not necessarily the good old boy on the next bar stool at some back-road greasy spoon diner, but is in fact he who fells trees. Aha!
Underhill’s most recent work is self-admittedly a re-visitation of his prior books (of which I have all, somewhere in a box…) It is organized in such a way that we follow woodworking from the forest all the way through the joiner’s work with stops along the way to learn the tools of the craft and to take surveys of the bodger’s art, timber framing, ship building, and wood turning. Written in Underhill’s inimitable and inevitably right-brained style, it is laced with the imagery and humor we’ve come to be addicted to. The reader finds himself mired in nostalgia, picturing himself in colonial breeches and turning the spiral auger to drawbore a mortise and tenon joint in huge oak beams, while the author himself is chipping away at a nearby beam with an adze and explaining, “Of the 23 known woodworking puns, a fair share involve the adze.” (p. 19.)
We work wood because we love wood and we love making things with it. Underhill has given proper acknowledgment to the fact that most of what is covered in this book is not hobby, but mankind’s way of life not so long ago. For Underhill, the Wooden Age hasn’t quite come to an end, and as I read this latest Woodwright’s episode, I begin to feel that perhaps it hasn’t ended for me, either. For any of us who find any joy at all in transforming wood, this is mandatory reading. I defy you not to let your imagination wander!
Review by Dick Johnson for The Woodwright’s Guide: Working Wood with Wedge and Edge
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This, the sixth in Underhill’s Woodwright series, is more tool and process oriented than the others. I really like this one for its practical teachings.
I do have an axe to grind, however. The Product Description above says “A special concluding section contains detailed plans for making your own foot-powered lathes, ….” Aah, I thought, I’ll finally get plans for building that treadle lathe Underhill has been teasing me with for five books. If you, like me, think “detailed plans” will give you true shop drawings, lists of materials, and instructions that, if you follow them will give you a working lathe at the end; then you, like me, will be very disappointed. He does give you more than in the past, but be prepared for much head scratching and trial and error. If I do go ahead and try to build one, I’m going to make sure I have at least three of everything on hand.
Over all, this is perhaps his best book yet. I just don’t understand why he’s so stingy with his plans.
Review by Michael Flaim for The Woodwright’s Guide: Working Wood with Wedge and Edge
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This is another excellent book Roy has written. The plan for the Roubo workbench in the back is worth the price alone. It is a quick, enjoyable read where you can easily tab back to any page to review a certain woodworking technique. Excellent reference book.
Review by Karl F. Newman for The Woodwright’s Guide: Working Wood with Wedge and Edge
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First let me say that I am a big fan of Mr Underhill’s. All of his other books in this series and his show on PBS I have greatly enjoyed! I recommend (highly) all of Mr. Underhill’s other books.
This, his latest installment, is a big dissapointment, It reitterates all of his “from tree to a house and everything in it” philosophy (for a fifth time) but has no new projects, which is what all his fans have been waiting for.
Roy, you’ve already sold us on the philosophy, you are preaching to the choir! we want projects!!
Also all of the illustrations are drawn from photos that are in his previous books. most look like the illustrator simply put trace paper on top of the old pictures to make thier drawings. or the illustrator is really really good, what they call photo perfect. but we plebs in can’t see a diference. Did the publisher think we wouldn’t notice that it is all re-used images?
Lastly the writing style is different than the previous books. I kept feeling like some one else took all of Mr Underhill’s previous writings and rewrote them in thier own way. People change, writing styles drift, mine goes all over the place, but I get a ceepy feeling reading this book that it was written by someone else.
I am Karl Newman, Cabinetmaker since 1982