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, <i>The Woodwright's Shop</i>, now in its sixteenth season, Roy has inspired millions to take up chisel and plane.<p>The master woodwright returns here with instructions for handcrafting an appealing selection of projects from the American woodworking tradition. <i>The Woodwright's Apprentice</i> 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.<p>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 <i>The Woodwright's Shop</i> television show.