8/31/2023 0 Comments Roy underhill tool tote plansI simply assumed that this is how adults worked, and what they did for a living.” I’d ride the trolley car down to visit her and see the log cabins and hand tools on exhibit. My older sister was in college when I was a young child, and she worked at the Smithsonian on the ‘Life in Early America’ exhibit. As far back as I can remember, I always made things. “I was born in the nadir of 1950,” Roy mused, “just in time for television and Howdy Doody, on the December 22nd winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. Looking at his past, you can see that the roots of his Luddite sensitivities started early. With his ratty cap, trademark suspenders, and infectious elan, Roy Underhill has been captivating audiences for a quarter century on the delightful PBS program “The Woodwright’s Shop.” Begun the same year as “This Old House,” it is the longest running woodworking - rather than home improvement - show on television, no doubt thanks to its charismatic host.īehind Roy’s television persona is a charming, funny, highly educated woodworker with a passion for what he calls “creative work on the margins of society.” For decades, he’s been promoting the idea that we can learn some very sophisticated hand work technology from our forefathers, and do great woodworking without electricity.
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