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The Village Carpenter
Walter Rose
Walter Rose was a carpenter and the son of carpenters in Victorian England, a time when the village woodworker made everything except, perhaps, wagon wheels. He writes eloquently of the importance of skill and the attitudes of the craftsman to work and to village life. TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. Early Associations
2. The Old Country Business
3. Timber
4. The Carpenter's Shop
5. Tools
6. Work on the Farm
7. Wooden Pumps
8. Roofs
9. Work on the New House
10. Work at Water-Mills
11. Wind-Mill Repairs
12. Undertaking
13. Furniture Repairs
14. The Outlook
146 pgs, 5.5x8.5, b&w, softcover
$9.95
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