[MR] Some Useful Woodworking Videos / Mastermyr Book

[rmhowe]

For those who live in my home Kingdom of Atlantia Roy Underhill
is fairly well known for his programs on traditional woodworking
that he has done for the last twentyone years. While there are a
couple hundred shows now, done here and in Canada and Europe
primarily, they only remain on sale for a couple years. If you
miss them they may no longer be available. As far as I know they
are only available in American coded VHS format. Roy is now director
of Historical Interpretation for Colonial Williamsburg. He was 
the Colonial Williamsburg Head Carpenter for many years after 
graduating from Duke University with a degree in Communications. 
He helped cause a renaissance in traditional woodworking in America.
These are -not- power tool shows. The shows are filmed in Chapel 
Hill, North Carolina, USA at W-UNC TV. I realize many of you folks 
reading these lists are in other countries or your viewing areas
may not include the shows so you may well be totally unfamiliar 
and I try to give complete information.

The prices have come down $5 since they stopped being sold
by UNC directly. Over the years I've bought quite a few.
PBS is the United States Public Broadcasting Service.
Directly by phone they are reached by 1-800-PlayPBS.
Over the web the current listing is:
http://www.shop.pbs.org/  Search Videos / Woodwright's Shop
There are four pages of them including some metalwork. Roy
features other craftsmen in at least a third of his shows.

A few from the current selection of about fifty videos I actually
chose for myself are:

Woodwright's Shop, The: Wayne Barton--Master Chip Carver 
                        A3936  $14.95 (VHS Video)
This is a really good introduction to chipcarving, amazingly rapid
and the man only uses two tools. Wayne Barton is probably the
most prolific writer of Chip Carving books and articles. Is chip
carving period? Very. Shows up on all sorts of things including
medieval chests. 

[Some time between Thanksgiving (late November)and Christmas this 
year I hope to be able to announce the reprint of some very early 
20th C. large articles on Medieval Chests, one of which has a 
number of rubbings of medieval carvings appropriate to chipcarving. 
I promise you that the original detailed chest designs are far 
better than anything currently on the market. I've been waiting 
quite a while for a very small publisher to reproduce them from 
my originals. They should include everything from dugouts to 
panelled chests I believe. Depends on how much of the second article 
he uses. My end of this is very negligible and is being done as 
a service to the reenactor community in general. They were the best 
I'd seen in thirty years and I thought I shouldn't keep them to 
myself. I won't be selling them or profiting from them.
I spoke to the man early yesterday morning. He works during the 
night. I sent him the originals in February.]

(I did not make anything for encouraging the reprint of the 
Mastermyr Find - A Viking Age Tool Chest from Gotland either, 
but now hundreds of you have it. The chest sunk in what was once
a peat bog and it contains metalworking and woodworking tools
and also cooking equipment was found either in it or the immediate
vicinity. One of the only intact collections of medieval tools
in existence. It costs US $18. plus $2 postage in the U.S.. 
Because I know someone is coming in late on this the book is 
available from 
Norm Larson Books 
5426 E. Hwy 246 
Lompoc, CA 93436.
Fax 805-735-8367, Ph 800-743-4766
larbooks at impulse.net )

Woodwright's Shop, The: Season 20: Turned Corner Chair 
                        A5049  $14.95 (VHS Video)
This is one of the Netherlandish three legged stools depicted
by Peter Brueghel from the late period. The show shows how to
make one with simple tools and a pole lathe. As I recall the
stool has one raised leg with a backrest with two diagonal supports.

Woodwright's Shop, The: Season 20: Marquetry Master Patrick
Edwards                             A5055  $14.95 (VHS Video)
This is one of the most amazing videos on woodworking I know of.
The man is using an approximately 17-18th Century French technique
for cutting marquetry. Marquetry however dates to renaissance
Italy in forms this complicated. Of course it dates earlier if
you consider inlays back to ancient times. 


Woodwright's Shop, The: Bucketmaking for Beginners 
                        A3937  $14.95 (VHS Video)
Since people are frequently asking about buckets and bucketmaking
on the Medieval Encampments list I thought I'd throw this one in.
Roy shows how to make a simple cedar bucket without complicated
and rare cooper's tools. He uses a drawknife, a marking knife guage,
and a plane or two, also a froe and saw and dividers.

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