Book - "Calvin Cobb - Radio Woodworker!" By Roy Underhill

Book - "Calvin Cobb - Radio Woodworker!" By Roy Underhill

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Calvin Cobb - Radio Woodworker! is likely to be the first ever Woodworking Novel. A screwball comedy set in 1937, the story follows a woodworker who heads the U.S. government's agricultural "Broadcast Research" division. Calvin works alongside 4 women (all injured in WWI) who are interested in developing the world's first supercomputer while Calvin is more interested in woodworkingand in particular the female host of the radio program "Homemaker Chats." How best to woo her? With a radio show: "Grandpa Sam's Woodshop of the Air!" which becomes an overnight success. Can Calvin and his friends save the world through woodworking, one listener at a time? Perhaps but first theyll have to save themselves from Nazis, the FBI, bureaucracy and wooden legs breaking at inopportune times. Includes measured drawings for 4 projects that are essential to the books plot.

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"Calvin Cobb - Radio Woodworker!" is likely to be the first ever Woodworking Novel. A screwball comedy set in 1937, the story follows a woodworker who heads the U.S. government's agricultural "Broadcast Research" division. Calvin works alongside 4 women (all injured in WWI) who are interested in developing the world's first supercomputer while Calvin is more interested in woodworkingand in particular the female host of the radio program "Homemaker Chats." How best to woo her? With a radio show: "Grandpa Sam's Woodshop of the Air!" which becomes an overnight success. Can Calvin and his friends save the world through woodworking, one listener at a time? Perhaps but first theyll have to save themselves from Nazis, the FBI, bureaucracy and wooden legs breaking at inopportune times. Includes measured drawings for 4 projects that are essential to the books plot.