Calvin Cobb: Radio Woodworker!, Roy Underhill

Calvin Cobb: Radio Woodworker! by Roy Underhill of PBS's The Woodwright's Shop could be the world's first-ever woodworking novel. It's a screwball comedy set in 1937 about a woodworker who heads the U.S. government's agricultural Broadcast Research division, with a staff of four women, all severely injured WWI volunteers.

The four women are more interested in developing the world's first supercomputer from abandoned punch-card machines, and Calvin is more interested in woodworking, and in Kathryn Dale Harper, host of the radio program Homemaker Chats. How best to woo her? Why, a radio show, Grandpa Sam's Woodshop of the Air, which becomes an almost-overnight sensation. But success breeds jealousy, and Calvin and his friends must save themselves from Nazis, the FBI, bureaucracy and wooden legs that break at inopportune times.

6" x 9" hardbound book, casebound with sewn signatures and wrapped in a full-color dust jacket designed by Canadian artist Jode Thompson. Includes measured drawings for four projects essential to the plot. Produced in the United States by Lost Art Press.