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The Woodwrights Shop  Rise of the Machines

Roy Underhill demonstrates elegant, iron, foot-powered woodworking machines. Details

 

Program: The Woodwrights Shop

Episode: Rise of the Machines

Why do it by hand – when you can do it by foot? Roy Underhill gets caught up in up a bevy of century-old, foot-powered woodworking machines.

Duration: (26:46)
Premiere Date: 09/01/2012
Episode Expires: Never
TV Rating: NR
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