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The Woodwright Prize Package


UNC Press is proud to publish Roy Underhill, America's favorite woodwright and star of the PBS series The Woodwright's Shop. Get all five of Roy's books in the Woodwright prize package. Please note that for your information we have included a price for both paperback and hardcover when both are available, but the prize package will include the paperback edition.


The Woodwright's Shop
A Practical Guide to Traditional Woodcraft
by Roy Underhill

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.

$22.50 paperback


The Woodwright's Companion
Exploring Traditional Woodcraft
by Roy Underhill

Underhill's second 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 sashes, riven shingles, and pit sawing. The final chapter focuses on traditional woodworking techniques still used by the Colonial Williamsburg housewrights.

$22.50 paperback


The Woodwright's Workbook
Further Explorations in Traditional Woodcraft
by Roy Underhill

Roy's third book features step-by-step instructions for such projects as tool chests, workbenches, lathes, wood barns, forges, boats, and even colonial fortresses. He also provides a fascinating and useful 'field guide' to American tool marks that show s how to identify a specific tool by the marks it left.

$22.50 paperback


The Woodwright's Eclectic Workshop
by Roy Underhill

With his fourth book, America's favorite woodwright provides step-by-step instructions for many projects featured on the television series in recent years, including such popular projects as the Adirondack chair, tavern table, folding ladder, rocking h orse, lathe, and kayak. The book also includes colorful descriptions of what it was like to be a tradesperson who made a living by hand, working with the tools and methods Roy describes on television and in his books: carpenters, joiners, wheelwright, millwrights, chairmakers, and blacksmiths.

$34.95 hardcover
$22.50 paperback


The Woodwright's Apprentice
Twenty Favorite Projects from The Woodwright's Shop
With an Illustrated Glossary of Tools and Techniques
by Roy Underhill

Designed both for woodworking novices and for more seasoned woodworkers looking for enjoyable projects, The Woodwright's Apprentice includes step-by-step directions, complete with easy-to-follow photographs and measured drawings, for handcraftin g an appealing selection of projects from the American woodworking tradition.

$34.95 hardcover
$22.50 paperback


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