Currently master housewright at Colonial Williamsburg, Roy Underhill has made a living for more than 10 years as a woodworker, lecturer, and museum consultant. In this book, he brings to woodworking the intimate relationship with wood that craftsmen enjoyed in the days before power tools. Combining historical background, folklore, alternative technology, and humor he provides a great source of information as well as step-by-step instructions for a great selection of projects-from chairs to dough bowls, dove-tails to log houses.