Great fun! Roy is a national treasure as far as I am concerned! I have met him once myself and enjoyed the experience quite a bit. Thanks for posting this!
Decades ago I worked in an aspiring living history museum, and was in the curators department as an assistant exhibit preparator. During that time I had the opportunity to develop, and teach, several basic-level hand tool woodworking classes for the museum. At the same time, I was watching Roy Underhill on The Woodwrights Shop on our local PBS station. I loved it. It had it's challenges and stresses and strains, but I really liked the public interaction and the chance to communicate with them. It was younger kids and foreign visitors that I found the most open and receptive, and I enjoyed trying to dispel myths and misunderstandings about the time period the museum was trying to portray. I can also relate to Roy's frequent breathlessness, too. Doing a log hewing demonstration, for example, on a hot and muggy summer afternoon, all while trying to talk to the on-lookers, kept me breathing hard; just as I had seen Roy do on the TV show. But it was the communication and education that was so satisfying. He mentioned something about the difficulties of working at Williamsburg, and I could relate to that as well! Great video. Glad I came across it. Thanks.
Roy is an amazing person. I was lucky enough to meet him at one of his mallet workshops with my dad and he was exactly as you see on tv. Very kind soul.
Thanks for doing this Stumpy. I've taken two classes at the school, neither of which Roy was taught....but he did stop in at the end of one. He was very gracious. He's right about people looking in the windows while you're in class. Some even come inside and ask questions of the staff and students. I highly recommend you take a class if you can. Scott
Nice to see you guys back at it, but then again it kind of sucks you guys aren't making the money you were doing your other projects, always great info!
Roy owes me a cold one for the old Hickory tree I pulled out of the woods to make a shaving horse back in 1980. Lots of sweat pulling it to the road and then splitting it and shaping once I got it home.
WigWagWorkshop since every man now carries an HD video camera with him disguised as a phone, can't someone please come up with a 21st century microphone to eliminate such execrable audio?
Roy Underhill is Mt. Rushmore material for woodworking already , but when he quotes almost verbatim from Caddyshack?! He rose to the status of superhero of woodworking at that point. No Capes!
Okay, so I'm late to the game, but the parting joke sounds too familiar. Did Roy Underhill just steal a joke from Carl Spackler with his Dalai Lama joke? He said it almost word-for-word. My friends and I rented Caddyshack every weekend for an entire summer and I can quot that movie verbatim from start to finish.
Great fun! Roy is a national treasure as far as I am concerned! I have met him once myself and enjoyed the experience quite a bit. Thanks for posting this!
Decades ago I worked in an aspiring living history museum, and was in the curators department as an assistant exhibit preparator. During that time I had the opportunity to develop, and teach, several basic-level hand tool woodworking classes for the museum. At the same time, I was watching Roy Underhill on The Woodwrights Shop on our local PBS station. I loved it. It had it's challenges and stresses and strains, but I really liked the public interaction and the chance to communicate with them. It was younger kids and foreign visitors that I found the most open and receptive, and I enjoyed trying to dispel myths and misunderstandings about the time period the museum was trying to portray. I can also relate to Roy's frequent breathlessness, too. Doing a log hewing demonstration, for example, on a hot and muggy summer afternoon, all while trying to talk to the on-lookers, kept me breathing hard; just as I had seen Roy do on the TV show. But it was the communication and education that was so satisfying. He mentioned something about the difficulties of working at Williamsburg, and I could relate to that as well! Great video. Glad I came across it. Thanks.
Roy is an amazing person. I was lucky enough to meet him at one of his mallet workshops with my dad and he was exactly as you see on tv. Very kind soul.
Thanks for doing this Stumpy. I've taken two classes at the school, neither of which Roy was taught....but he did stop in at the end of one. He was very gracious. He's right about people looking in the windows while you're in class. Some even come inside and ask questions of the staff and students. I highly recommend you take a class if you can.
Scott
It was a great live interview. Was fun with the two of you there!
Somehow all the same jokes are still funny with Roy. Tho the test pattern comment was a new one. I love that.
I was hoping he had a twist on it. Still funny.
Thanks for this. I missed it at the show. I enjoyed meeting you and the 'stache in KC..
Nice to see you guys back at it, but then again it kind of sucks you guys aren't making the money you were doing your other projects, always great info!
OK you have made my day. Thanks for that Stumps. I did so enjoy it.
Roy owes me a cold one for the old Hickory tree I pulled out of the woods to make a shaving horse back in 1980. Lots of sweat pulling it to the road and then splitting it and shaping once I got it home.
Roy is my hero! That was great, I always wondered why he was always trying to grab tools from other people's hands
Thanks Stumpy this was a great episode.
What a treat this was to watch, thank you sharing. I don't think the sound was bad, it sounded ok to me.
WigWagWorkshop since every man now carries an HD video camera with him disguised as a phone, can't someone please come up with a 21st century microphone to eliminate such execrable audio?
This is a really great episode, thanks for this one.
I missed that so thanks for sharing it.
Very entertaining and enlightening. Thanks.
Ya made me even more remorseful, that I wasn't able to go to WIA....
I love the caddy shack reference there at the end
Glad to know there is another connoisseur of fine cinema out there!
Oh, that was GREAT. Thanks for sharing.
"Pre-Drill" & "Subversive Woodworking", got it!
that was awesome. thanks ever so much for sharing.
Roy Underhill is Mt. Rushmore material for woodworking already , but when he quotes almost verbatim from Caddyshack?! He rose to the status of superhero of woodworking at that point. No Capes!
Stumpy Nubs you ROCK!
Fantastic design also for a tablet or phone holder
You should do a remake if he's up to it with better audio n video, it'd be awesome blue!
At 11:00 a profound statement about what it means to pass on traditions.
Okay, so I'm late to the game, but the parting joke sounds too familiar. Did Roy Underhill just steal a joke from Carl Spackler with his Dalai Lama joke? He said it almost word-for-word. My friends and I rented Caddyshack every weekend for an entire summer and I can quot that movie verbatim from start to finish.
ROY ROCKS. That is all.
Don't lie, you where in heaven?
I live right next to Wiliamsburg, Still need to swing by the wood shops their and watch the magic.
Thanks
with the channel title I was expecting some missing finger's.
Was that a Caddy Shack joke? lol
wow live audio is fun
roy ur a master