BONUS - ROY UNDERHILL GIVES US A TOUR OF HIS NORTH CAROLINA PROPERTY

[Music] we're here at McBain mill in North Carolina as you can see a beautiful snowy day with my friend Roy Underhill hey Chuck oh yeah Roy taught me how to make my first dovetail and we're here to see his place today yeah let's take a look around well come on let's go all right very good and not sure when this was built they say 1850 but looking at the machinery it looks like 1870 because it didn't have a over you know kind of waterwheel the very picturesque wooden one it was a turbine here and they did just everything Jenning cotton this is grinding corn stuff like that was actually a Furniture Factory over here and all of this was restored you know it made then to this very beautiful romantic place by a metal artist Ruffin Hobbs all through the you know I guess last thirty years of his life he worked on this place well some of the equipment's still here we've got the we're ready to crank this up I think a little wd-40 and this will be in yeah you think I think how fast this tractor had to be going to run that deep into that tree I mean it just had to be hot it's good to hit the shop it's a 1921 what is it it's a McCormick Deering and actually this was this is here well that's kind of the metaphor is it's the old machine the power equipment but it was here because of climate change the droughts started in mid-century and they started using this to run the cotton gins and the the press equipment and the sawmill because the water panel was just getting more and more unreliable well this is of course just the gin the cotton gin that they had here and here's the this screw so Carthage in the cotton here and they say wagons line up all along the road all the way down here and whether it was 2:00 in the morning or whatever you'd wait with your cotton in the wagon right and when they rang the bell at the mill that was your turn your signal yeah you would go in and get your cut because we no cotton balls get rotten you know you got to get out there right yes so we've got a whole lot and over there there's that rock rubble that's the old bridge the old old road from the 1800s went and crossed right down there where all that rock is and that little bit of Rapids right there that's wonderful so they have this place here to work on and you can see the move in that great you can just imagine just sitting here working watching as the creek flows on down there let's walk up here yeah this is the Miller's cottage and they very wisely put it up here on the hill because during the highest water of the hurricane Fran the water came right up here to the foundation and so it's about oh I'm guessing eight foot higher than the mill so even though this was it but this is where the Miller lived and of course that was the mill where all the work was done this however it's going to be the I have my office up here now but I'm getting it fixed up inside this will be the guest cottage for instructors that come out here someone I have the teachers come yes they'll have a place to stay if they want to stay up late and drink and share wisdom with their students they have their own place what Roy reads about everything you need here all the all the knowledge of woodworking all and this is just Volume one of the history of pit sawing and yeah wonderful Wow wonderful stuff [Music]

Channel: The Highland Woodworker

Views: 103,458

Rating: 4.860465 out of 5

Keywords: Roy Underhill, Charles Brock, The Highland Woodworker, The Woodwrights Shop, Highland Woodworking, Woodworking TV, Woodworking TV Show Online, Hand Tools, North Carolina, Bonus Footage, Moment with a Master, Master Woodworker

Id: 4U6XqwaMXxo

Length: 4min 19sec (259 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 10 2013