The Woodwright's Shop

Jan 1, 1981

Watch Roy make two traditional tools by first felling a tree then shaping a maul and glut using period iron woodworking tools.

Jan 1, 1981

Learn how to make a shaving horse – one of the most important hand-tool shop fixtures for working with drawknives and spokeshaves.

Jan 1, 1981

Learn how to make a shaving horse – one of the most important hand-tool shop fixtures for working with drawknives and spokeshaves.

Jan 1, 1981

Spend time with Roy as he shows you how to build one of his favorite projects: a hickory hay rake that is both strong and lightweight.

Jan 1, 1981

Join Roy on a tour of the history and development of human powered machines, including one of his favorites: the lathe.

Jan 1, 1981

Learn how to build a classic armless rocking chair using traditional tools and techniques. Then create a woven white oak seat for the rocker. Plus, watch as Roy’s guest Bryant Holsenbeck demonstrates how to weave a traditional basket.

Jan 1, 1981

Learn how to build a classic armless rocking chair using traditional tools and techniques. Then create a woven white oak seat for the rocker. Plus, watch as Roy’s guest Bryant Holsenbeck demonstrates how to weave a traditional basket.

Jan 1, 1981

Watch as Roy demonstrates the steps and hand-hewn joinery used in building traditional log cabins.

Jan 1, 1981

Watch and learn as Roy addresses the details of timber framing, including post-and-beam and mortise-and-tenon construction techniques.

Jan 1, 1981

Watch as Roy makes a pitchfork and a dough bowl, each from a single piece of wood.

Jan 1, 1981

Spend some time at the forge with Roy to learn basic blacksmithing techniques and discover how to create a spike dog (a tool used in timber framing).

Jan 1, 1981

Follow along as Roy discusses frame-and-panel construction for doors, and the basic steps for cutting a dovetailed joint.

Jan 1, 1981

Travel with Roy to Colonial Williamsburg to take a look at 18th-century craftsmanship including a visit with a wheelwright, a cooper and a blacksmith, as well as a look inside the Anthony Hay Cabinet Shop.

Oct 2, 1982

Watch as Roy examines a number of tool handles, then creates an axe handle from a split of hickory and turns a chisel handle.

Oct 9, 1982

Follow along as Roy walks you through the steps of creating a classic walnut candle stand.

Oct 16, 1982

Learn the history of a wide variety of handplanes as Roy explains their many and specialized uses.

Oct 23, 1982

Learn the history of a wide variety of handplanes as Roy explains their many and specialized uses. Lost episode.

Oct 30, 1982

Join Roy as he makes a hand-hewn, half-blind dovetailed drawer for his workbench, and discusses many of the techniques used in traditional drawer making.

Nov 6, 1982

See what Roy discovers at a scrap yard, antique store and flea market on his way to “The Woodwright’s Shop.”

Nov 13, 1982

It’s all about staying sharp, and in this episode Roy examines the dizzying array of saws available, from familiar panel saws to bowsaws and pit saws. Plus, as a special bonus Roy shows you how to sharpen a bowsaw.

Nov 20, 1982

Accompany Roy on a visit to Colonial Williamsburg to work with the living history museum’s blacksmiths as they make a froe, and forge a cant hook.

Nov 27, 1982

Lost episode.

Dec 4, 1982

Roy takes us through the hand-crafted creation process of a sash-style window, explaining the stiles, rails and muntins.

Dec 18, 1982

The evolution of modern boat building in America starts with simple designs such as those found in rough-hewn canoes – and its surprisingly fundamental. Watch Roy explore how to build a boat as he visits the Hampton Mariner’s Museum and discusses boat building that’s large and complex. There is a clear evolution in tools and techniques and it’s both instructive and entertaining to watch this process.

Dec 25, 1982

Roy looks at a collection of classic wood toys, and then shows us the steps to create a Crow Chaser.

Oct 1, 1983

Observe as Roy looks at the mechanics of wood and how a trees’ growth affects how you work wood once you have it in your shop.

Oct 8, 1983

Roy hand-crafts the frame for a massive, classic workbench using pegged and keyed mortise-and-tenon construction.

Oct 15, 1983

Roy finishes the workbench started in the previous episode.

Oct 29, 1983

Follow along as Roy builds a stunning nailed-together, six-board blanket chest with an interior till.

Nov 5, 1983

Watch and learn as Roy builds three simple gift projects, including a flapping duck toy, a small pine knock-down bench and a wooden egg beater.

Nov 12, 1983

Join Roy as he walks you through the process for making a Gee Haw Wimmey Diddle, a quintessential mountain folk toy, along and a willow whistle.

Nov 19, 1983

Watch as Roy’s guest Colonial Williamsburg’s Wallace Gusler talks about the techniques and tools needed for carved furniture.

Nov 26, 1983

Take a trip with Roy through the geological history of whetstones, then head out on a hunt for rough materials to make your own whetstone for sharpening.

Dec 3, 1983

Spend time with Roy and gunsmith Gary Brumfield of Colonial Williamsburg as they discuss the steps to making a handcrafted 18th-century-style rifle.

Dec 10, 1983

Discover details about some of the traditional wooden implements used by weavers, including spinning wheels, clock reels and niddy noddys; and watch as Roy makes a swift and a tape loom.

Dec 17, 1983

Join Roy in learning the techniques and processes used to create a violin in the 18th century.

Oct 22, 1983

With some help a couple of coopers from Colonial Williamsburg, Roy shows the steps to creating a cooper’s bucket.

Dec 24, 1983

Watch as Roy Black and Robert Watson show Roy how to make round-bottom and flat-bottom white oak baskets, starting from a log and using only hand tools.

Oct 6, 1984

Roy takes us on a tour the Dominy Shop at Winterthur Museum. The shop holds the tools and shop items used by three generations of craftsman from 1750-1850.

Oct 13, 1984

Roy walks us through the steps to create a simple, but accurate and functional spring pole lathe.

Oct 20, 1984

Roy welcomes Wallace Gusler from Colonial Williamsburg, and he shows the process to create a cabriole leg with a ball and claw foot.

Oct 27, 1984

Roy works with his daughter, Rachel, to create a child-size, 17th-century chair found in a book by Wallace Nutting.

Nov 3, 1984

Roy explores the contents of a recently purchased tool chest, trying to determine something of the original owner. He then shows how to recreate the chest itself.

Nov 10, 1984

Mack Headley from Colonial Williamsburg visits the shop and demonstrates the chip carving techniques used to decorate furniture.

Nov 17, 1984

Roy looks at the details of early-American fences, including lightweight and portable fences used for sheep herding, garden fences and more substantial post and rail “fences” used in forts built around 1620.

Nov 24, 1984

Roy shows you how to make some always-gift-appropriate and useful utensils for the kitchen including a rolling pin, heavy spoon, a collapsible drinking cup and more.

Dec 1, 1984

Roy pitches in with the raising of the frame-and-timber structure for Anderson’s Forge at Colonial Williamsburg.

Dec 8, 1984

Roy builds a small rowboat using traditional tools and techniques.

Dec 15, 1984

After discussing how humidity affects different wood species, Roy makes a clever and simple late 18th-century hygrometer to measure the humidity in the shop.

Dec 22, 1984

Roy recreates a classic pine corner cupboard.

Dec 29, 1984

To celebrate his new nephew, Roy builds an 18th century baby’s high chair with rush seating.

Oct 5, 1985

Roy starts off the “Making Things From Nature” season by giving us some history of rustic furniture and walks through the steps necessary to make a Rustic Rocker.

Oct 12, 1985

To finish up the Rustic Rocker, Roy takes us into the woods to gather hickory bark, and then heads into the shop to create the woven bark seat for the rocker.

Oct 19, 1985

Roy takes us into the shop to finish up a pilgrim-style oak cradle that he started, but never finished, reviewing the “tricky” parts necessary to create the whole project.

Oct 26, 1985

We visit with a 14-year-old traditional woodworker who sells his wares (walking sticks, toys and more), to make more money to buy tools he can’t make for himself.

Nov 2, 1985

A collector of cast-iron, foot-powered woodworking lathes and fret saws visits with Roy and they try out a number of the machines.

Nov 9, 1985

In part one, Roy starts the base of a classic early-American project that serves as a tilt-top table, chair and storage unit.

Nov 16, 1985

In part two, Roy finishes the base and completes the top of the early-American tilt-top table. He also shows how to make a traditional milk paint finish for the piece.

Nov 23, 1985

Roy visits with David Harvey, a Blacksmith at Colonial Williamsburg, and learns how to turn bog ore into a woodworking chisel.

Nov 30, 1985

Roy shows how to create three projects that are created directly from trees and bark, with very little refinement.

Dec 7, 1985

We head back to Colonial Williamsburg where Roy visits with master wheelwright Dan Stebbins to discover the mysteries and realities of making wheels for early American wagons and carts.

Dec 14, 1985

Roy makes a six-note music mill from wine bottles that is powered by hand crank (but can also be powered by a water wheel).

Dec 21, 1985

Roy travels back to visit with master cabinetmaker Mack Headley at the Anthony Hay shop at Colonial Williamsburg. He shares some of the secrets that were standard fare for 18th century American woodworking.

Dec 28, 1985

Sash joinery, or making windows, is the ultimate test of organizational skills, and Roy takes us through the many steps and details that must align to make a good window.

Traditional woodworking required making much of your own tools and machinery, and the wooden screw is a major component in those. Roy looks at the making of wooden screws for use in the shop.

Roy visits with expert spoon carver Roger Sandstrom to talk technique, wood selection and more about carving spoons and treenware.

Roy tackles creating a classic Wooden Pliers whittled from a single piece of wood, and then expands the concept to a folding bookstand using similar joinery.

Roy shows how to build an 18th Century French lathe designed to fold up and store in the corner.

We learn how to create the traditional joinery for a Jacobean stool.

Roy finishes the Jacobean stool by adding the turning and carving to the frame.

We spend some quality time with Roy making small projects from scrap wood, including wooden ties, a pop gun, ado-nothing machine and a flying top.

Roy travels to the John Anderson Forge at Colonial Williamsburg to look at how nails, hinges and tools were made in Colonial America.

Roy takes a look at 18th Century woodworking details found in furniture from the Colonial Williamsburg cabinet shop.

Build one of the classic 18th Century projects with Roy; a Shaker lap desk.

Roy walks through the steps required to build a wooden wagon for his daughters – but manages to have some fun himself.

Roy visits with Peter Ross at the Anderson Forge to look at 18th Century tool making, in particular, a gentlemen’s hatchet.

Only the best for Roy’s pooch, Grit: a brick and Tudor framed doghouse is this episode’s project.

Roy takes a look at the design and benefits of many traditional dovetails used in woodworking, then goes even further to look at some more unusual dovetails.

When you need a longer board (or rafter), then a traditional scarf joint may be the answer. Roy discusses the history, value and creation of this important joint.

Roy shows us the steps to create the perfect outdoor chair — the Adirondack.

After a look at a number foot-powered woodworking machines, Roy and his guest show how to use a few of the machines to make traditional Shaker oval boxes.

This episode is Roy’s version of waste-not, want not. He shows how to build a coffin-shaped bookcase so that the materials involved aren’t wasted, but used during life — and after.

Blending two traditional crafts, Roy builds an adjustable needlework stand or French design.

Whirligig expert Andy Lundy stops by the shop to talk about the history, design and construction details of a variety of whirligigs.

Traditional woodworking starts with the trees. Roy shares the traditional steps necessary to fell a tree and get the wood into the shop.

Roy gives us a look at rustic Bramble Work furniture. He then creates a small table in this style, working with twigs fastened in geometric patterns.

Roy works through the varied historical uses of lumber. For use in construction, furniture, heating on your own farm, and for sharing with others. No part of the tree is wasted.

On a trip back to the Underhill homestead, Roy takes us on visit of some of the construction details used in building the 1850’s house and outbuildings.

Roy shows us how to make a couple of classic board games: Fox and Geese; and a checkers (or chess) board.

We travel to the Book Binders Shop at Colonial Williamsburg to learn the history and reality of woodcutting for use in printing.

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Roy looks at a balaphone (or marimba), kalimba (or thumb piano), a banjo and couple of African drums.

Jan 1, 1988

Jan 1, 1988

(Part 1) — Roy starts a classic post-and-rung rocking chair using traditional greenwood techniques.

(Part 2) — Work on the rocker continues; shaping the tenons, boring the mortises and creating the splats.

(Part 3) — Work on the rocker is completed with the creation of the rockers and adding a hickory bark seat.

Roy creates a traditional dough bowl from tulip poplar.

Eleanor Underhill joins Dad in the shop to turn a painted candle stand.

Roy welcomes a bowyer and a fletcher to the shop to make a woodland Indian’s bow and river cane arrows.

This may not be the four-poster bed you’re thinking of, as Roy builds a rustic version from rough, red cedar logs

Roy visits Colonial Williamsburg to watch the creation of a set of hardware for window shutters.

Continuing the Williamsburg theme, Roy visits the woodworker’s shop to watch frame-and-panel shutters made

Daughter Rachel joins Roy in the shop to make a marble track toy and Kick-Me machine.

Roy visits Monticello to look at some of the architectural creations and innovations of the former President..

Roy recreates stacking “book box” shelves built to Thomas Jefferson’s specifications, and still on display at Monticello.

Toshio Odate visits the shop to discuss and demonstrate Japanese woodworking tools, techniques and joinery.

Oct 3, 1992

Roy visits Gregg Blomberg and explores woodworking traditions of the Pacific Northwest.

Oct 10, 1992

Roy is joined by his wife, Jane, to build a traditional quilting frame.

Oct 17, 1992

Roy and his friend Robert Watson make a “man’s chair” using tools from the Ivory Coast of Africa.

Oct 24, 1992

Roy learns about northern New Mexico woodworking on the Santa Fe Trail.

Oct 31, 1992

Roy begins making a tiny tape loom, used for making decorative fabric.

Nov 7, 1992

Roy finishes the tape loom by making a beautiful box for it with dovetails and turned columns.

Nov 14, 1992

Roy makes a standing desk using mortise-and-tenon and tongue-and-groove joints.

Nov 21, 1992

Instrument maker Marcus Hanson makes inlay banding with Roy at the Anthony Hay Cabinet Shop.

Nov 28, 1992

Roy returns to the Anthony Hay Cabinet Shop to learn finishing.

Dec 5, 1992

Roy restores the tools found in an antique chest.

Dec 12, 1992

Roy makes a Spanish pilgrim’s chest from New Mexico.

Dec 19, 1992

Returning to New Mexico once again, Roy explores religious carving and woodworking in the mountains north of Santa Fe.

Dec 26, 1992

Roy makes a Moravian chair that’s reinforced with dovetailed battens, which make this small piece extraordinarily strong.

Oct 2, 1993

Build a beautiful music stand that adjusts for height and angle to best suit the musician.

Oct 9, 1993

Roy works through the steps to turn a round log into a square timber, and then shows how to bore a square hole.

Oct 16, 1993

Oct 23, 1993

Through shaving, steaming and bending, Roy creates a pitchfork from a green hickory limb.

Oct 30, 1993

Learn to build a wooden canteen using stave construction.

Nov 6, 1993

In this three-episode project Roy builds a variation of a swiveling Windsor chair allegedly used by Thomas Jefferson during the writing of the Declaration of Independence.

Nov 13, 1993

In this three-episode project Roy builds a variation of a swiveling Windsor chair allegedly used by Thomas Jefferson during the writing of the Declaration of Independence.

Nov 20, 1993

In this three-episode project Roy builds a variation of a swiveling Windsor chair allegedly used by Thomas Jefferson during the writing of the Declaration of Independence.

Nov 27, 1993

Roy visits the foundry at Williamsburg to view the processes of pouring and finishing brass and silver for hardware and household items.

Dec 4, 1993

Roy uses the theme of string-powered toys to show us how to make a spinning top, pump drill and a simplified version of the mechanism for a flying ball clock.

Dec 11, 1993

Learn the basics of two simple and fun projects: carving a spiral and building a tongue drum.

Dec 18, 1993

Roy visits Lillehammer, Norway looking at traditional Norwegian folk architecture and building techniques.

Dec 25, 1993

Still enjoying his trip to Norway, Roy visits a Viking ship museum and the Norwegian Folk Museum.

Oct 1, 1994

Roy visits a recreated Celtic village in Wales, looking at Welsh woodworking including building construction, clog making and traditional carved Welsh love spoons.

Oct 8, 1994

Learn to build Roy’s iconic carpenter’s tool tote.

Oct 15, 1994

Roy looks at Irish woodworking, including houses, harps, caravans and traditional ship-building techniques.

Oct 22, 1994

Learn to build a sailor’s sea chest with beveled through dovetails.

Oct 29, 1994

Roy builds a stool starting with splitting and riving the green wood and ending with a woven-bark seat.

Nov 5, 1994

Learn the steps to build a standing embroidery hoop large enough to handle embroidery on a quilt.

Nov 12, 1994

Roy builds a scaled model of a Welsh cruck-frame barn, teaching the woodworking principals of timber framing.

Nov 19, 1994

Create a clever wood lock-and-key door set in the shop with Roy.

Nov 26, 1994

Roy builds a traditional single-drawer Shaker sewing stand.

Dec 3, 1994

Learn the benefits and uses of frame-and-panel construction and the joinery steps to create a frame-and-panel door.

Dec 10, 1994

Roy visits Colonial Williamsburg to view their exhibit of 1,500 eighteenth-century woodworking tools.

Dec 17, 1994

Watch a traditional woodworking tool –a drawknife –forged using historically accurate techniques.

Dec 24, 1994

Learn the steps used to smith a Suffolk door latch used during colonial times.

Oct 7, 1995

Roy builds a cedar box for an old sharpening stone while simultaneously teaching you the principles of sharpening and how to maintain the edges on the tools he uses. He also discusses the differences between various kinds of sharpening stones.

Oct 14, 1995

Roy shows you how to make a walking stick-chair – a walking stick that folds out to become a small chair – much like the one used by Thomas Jefferson as he laid out plans for the University of Virginia.

Oct 21, 1995

Roy explores the wide, and sometimes strange, world of chisels. You’ll learn more about the tools you work with every day, and see how to use odd tools from history that you’ve likely never seen.

Oct 28, 1995

Roy makes a “sawbuck” trestle table – first delving into the interesting details, and then actually building it.

Nov 4, 1995

Starting with a raw popular log, Roy splits, chops, cuts and carves a huge wooden shovel. Along the way you’ll go through nearly every aspect of woodworking, from rough to fine work.

Nov 11, 1995

Roy travels to the Wooden Boat School in Brooklyn, Maine. See three distinct approaches to traditional boat building taught by three different instructors at the school

Nov 18, 1995

Roy arrives to find his shop taken over by a gaggle of marionette puppets! We’re joined by a pair of professional puppeteers that demonstrate how to build three types of puppets.

Nov 25, 1995

Start learning to make a simple, yet sturdy, portable folding workbench.

Dec 2, 1995

Finish learning how to put the workbench together, plus add all-important workholding features.

Dec 9, 1995

Make a colonial threaded candle stand – the screw threads allow you to finely adjust the height and position of the candles.

Dec 16, 1995

Visit the shores of Blue Mountain Lake in Adirondacks – see how to make an Adirondack guide boat and an Adirondack pack basket. Plus see the region’s signature furniture.

Dec 23, 1995

Visit the harness shop of Jim Clatter in Colonial Williamsburg. Learn how to make a variety of leather items including a knife holster, pistol buckets and water buckets using 18th-century techniques.

Dec 30, 1995

Roy climbs Bruton Parish Steeple in Williamsburg, Virginia, which has been holding a bell since the 1770s. See details of the original construction that tell us about how our ancestors lived, worked and thought.

Oct 5, 1996

Learn the steps to recreate a knock down bookcase originally built by the Roycrofters of East Aurora, New York.

Oct 12, 1996

Roy shows how to make a small box using a hidden dovetail joint that looks like a miter joint when complete.

Oct 19, 1996

This episode starts by making a scratch stock tool necessary to create the grooves for the simple Holly inlay that follows.

Oct 26, 1996

Roy visits local blacksmith shops and museums in the Alsace region of France in search of a giant chisel.

Nov 2, 1996

Using a roll-top joinery process, Roy creates a small box with tambour doors.

Nov 9, 1996

Roy shows how to build an “African” drum that originally came from colonial America.

Nov 16, 1996

Roy continues his visit to the Alsace region looking at woodworking and timber-building traditions.

Nov 23, 1996

In this two-part project, Roy shows the steps to create a classic comb-back Windsor chair.

Nov 30, 1996

In this two-part project, Roy shows the steps to create a classic comb-back Windsor chair.

Dec 7, 1996

Roy builds two simple toys: an interlocking-joint puzzle; and a sand-powered whirligig.

Dec 14, 1996

Learn to create the useful knuckle-hinge joint and, just for fun, whittle a wooden pair of pliers.

Dec 21, 1996

Roy shows how to use a tap and screw box to create wooden screws for use in shop and furniture projects.

Dec 28, 1996

Learn the history of writing instruments and the evolution of the pencil, then look at a variety of pencil sharpeners from the past.

Oct 4, 1997

Roy shows you how to make a shaving horse from a single 2x10.

Oct 11, 1997

Learn to whittle the mysterious, impossible-seeming wooden chain and ball-in-cage.

Oct 18, 1997

Roy make a child’s Windsor highchair showing classic Windsor techniques.

Oct 25, 1997

Make a chair out of grass ... Chinese bamboo, that is.

Nov 1, 1997

Make a No. 3 bentwood Shaker box – a deceptively simple design.

Nov 8, 1997

Roy’s panel-framed bench has a storage space built beneath the seat.

Nov 15, 1997

Using thin wood and only tapered, sliding dovetails, Roy makes a sturdy hanging bookshelf.

Nov 22, 1997

Roy takes a rotted window sash and repairs it with weather resistant resinous wood.

Nov 29, 1997

Make a cam-operated tea bag dunking machine that’ll save your arms from the repetitive motion of steeping tea.

Dec 6, 1997

How do you get to the center of a walnut? Build a turned, decorated nut cracker, as well as a simpler version from one piece of wood.

Dec 13, 1997

Roy takes a look at interior Shaker craftsmanship at the Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Mass.

Dec 20, 1997

Shaker furniture was made as if to be used for 1,000 years – see how that philosophy is worked into a small table.

Dec 27, 1997

During the time of Colonial America, many Loyalists headed north for Canada. Roy explores the life and economy they built there between harsh winters.

Oct 3, 1998

Learn simple box dovetails and create some shop characters that can hang out inside.

Oct 10, 1998

Dress up a small cedar box with a variety of chip carving designs.

Oct 17, 1998

Roy makes a walnut stick chair and a pine slab chair perfectly sized for children.

Oct 24, 1998

Learn the details to add a hickory bark seat to a child’s chair.

Oct 31, 1998

Roy draws on poetry from the 1400s to explain what tools were used by wrights of the day.

Nov 7, 1998

Build an improved version of Roy’s 20-year-old treadle lathe design — and it starts with scrap lumber!

Nov 14, 1998

A class on basket weaving? You bet! Weave a white oak basket with Roy.

Nov 21, 1998

Roy uses a red oak tool chest to illustrate a discussion on hand planes.

Nov 28, 1998

Learn to convert a treadle lathe into a treadle jigsaw.

Dec 5, 1998

Roy shows how to make a traditional Russian pecking-chicken toy.

Dec 12, 1998

Roy visits Old Salem, North Carolina, founded in the 1760s by the Moravians. Their craft lives on in the recreated town.

Dec 19, 1998

Learn to build a scaled-down German swinging cradle built with lapstrake construction.

Dec 26, 1998

Learn about the history and the early settlers of the Jamestown, Virginia settlement.

Oct 2, 1999

Underhill fits out a tool cabinet with shelves and dovetailed drawers

Oct 9, 1999

Roy shows how to hew, carve and turn a shoulder yoke for carrying those heavy sap buckets.

Oct 16, 1999

Roy shows how to make a little table from the 1600s with a unique folding design to save space in the old home place.

Oct 23, 1999

In this episode of The Woodwrights Shop, special guest Lyle Wheeler shows viewers how to construct their own spinning wheel.

Oct 30, 1999

Master carver, David Calvo gives lessons in high relief carving. Instructed in the "Old World" tradition, Calvo guides viewers step by step as he creates a Fleur de Lis woodcarving.

Nov 6, 1999

In this episode of the Woodright Shop, Roy Underhill visits a Connecticut shipyard, the Mystic Seaport. Here, Roy is taken on a tour of their current project, an exact replica of the famous Amistad clipper. He is given a brief history lesson of events leading up to the revolution aboard the notoriuos ship.

Nov 13, 1999

Roy visits two museums dedicated to two pioneers in preserving early technology--Henry Mercer and Eric Sloane.

Nov 20, 1999

Roy meets Hungarian-born cabinetmaker Frank Klausz, gentleman, craftsman and the fastest dovetailer on the planet.

Nov 27, 1999

Ultra close-up views give viewers the vision to sharpen their own saws.

Dec 4, 1999

Roy shows how to make turned wheels and the wooden ducks that roll on them

Dec 11, 1999

Roy shows how to make a chair that can turn into a ladder.

Dec 18, 1999

The director of the Alpine School of Woodcarving shows advanced techniques in chip carving.

Dec 25, 1999

Roy shows how to make your own buckets.

Watch and learn as Roy builds a reproduction of a simple walnut lap desk from the 19th century.

Follow along as Roy shows you how to make a circa-1550 three-legged chair from the Flemish town of Rotterdam.

Join Roy as he welcomes George Wunderlich and watch as he recreates a mid-1800s banjo.

Watch as Roy builds a small oak bookcase, without glue or fasteners, for easier disassembly.

Pick up valuable tips for large-scale woodworking from Roy as he builds the corner of a timber-framed structure.

Observe Nick Supone and Neal Conolly as they stop by “The Woodwright’s Shop” and demonstrate the hewing and carving techniques used in creating a duck decoy

Travel with Roy to Eastfield Village where he tours the museum’s restored historic buildings.

Watch and learn as Roy visits with marquetry expert Patrick Edwards, and discusses the technique of “painting in wood.”

Join Roy for a visit with blacksmiths Peter Ross and Ken Schwarz where they demonstrate making bench chisels and more.

Watch as Roy soldiers a tin-can bird whistle and makes a boxwood whistling top.

Travel along with Roy to the Hay Cabinet Shop at Williamsburg for a furniture-carving talk with Master Mack Headley.

Watch as Roy visits with Mike Dunbar of the Windsor Institute as he demonstrates the process for building a sack-back Windsor chair.

Join Roy as he looks back on 20 years of “The Woodwright’s Shop,” including highlights of guests, projects and memorable moments.

Sep 29, 2001

The tools we use can be beautiful too! Roy shows you how to build beautiful saw horse.

Oct 6, 2001

Roy teams up with the old Welsh Bodger himself and together they demonstrate how to build a classic Welsh Stick Chair.

Oct 13, 2001

You can learn how to build a timeless relic from past generations of fine woodworkers in this episode, a Joiner’s Tool Box.

Oct 20, 2001

An endless “pencil” sharpener to make round tapered handles for rake, boat spars- and more.

Oct 27, 2001

Get down, get musical! Produce a wonderful old wind instrument from the Elizabethan era- the Krumhorn!

Nov 3, 2001

Join Roy at the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival and learn how to build a timber-frame barn.

Nov 10, 2001

Make a mysterious puzzle mallet with a devilishly difficult dovetail that’s impossible to break!

Nov 17, 2001

Roy shows you how to find and restore traditional tools needed to do old time traditional woodworking.

Nov 24, 2001

Join Roy at the Anderson Forge in Colonial Williamsburg and see how to make a traditional cross garnet hinge.

Dec 1, 2001

Learn how to make “big” furniture by starting with scaled down versions.

Dec 8, 2001

Learn how to build a four-light Colonial window sash.

Dec 15, 2001

Roy visits the Gunsmith Shop at Colonial Williamsburg to see how 18th century flintlock rifles were made.

Dec 22, 2001

Watch Roy “spin the wheel” at the Cabinet shop in Colonial Williamsburg as they produce 18th century furniture the old fashioned way.

Sep 28, 2002

A three-sided box?! Well that’s different. Let Roy show you how to make a triumphant triangular box for your trifocals.

Oct 5, 2002

Clever, elegant and delicate beauty. Roy shows you how to produce a wonderful little Shaker work table.

Oct 12, 2002

Roy's bringing craftsmanship back into our lives with an Arts & Crafts style cabinet.

Oct 19, 2002

Have fun building a folk milking stool. Think of the possibilities!

Oct 26, 2002

What the heck is a spill plane and how do you make a hinged book stand out of one piece of wood?

Nov 2, 2002

Roy shows you how to build a delightful rocking cradle for a newborn baby.

Nov 9, 2002

Roy learns how to make shutter dog that is used to hold open shuttles when not to use.

Nov 16, 2002

Meet Dan Mack, and see how he fabricates fascinating furniture out of naturally occurring materials.

Nov 23, 2002

Find out what it takes to make a wheel at the Palace Wheelwright Shop in Colonial Williamsburg.

Nov 30, 2002

Roy shows you how to build wonderful articulated dancing toys called Limberjacks!

Dec 7, 2002

See how the Pilgrims performed early American woodworking with just a few basic tools.

Dec 14, 2002

Learn the difference between a carpenter and a joiner. Hint: Think doors, windows & stairs.

Dec 21, 2002

Visit Old Sturbridge Village, and meet the 1930s American—a farmer/craftsman.

Sep 27, 2003

Simple rainy day projects to "tink" around with - especially if you’re young at heart.

Oct 4, 2003

Build a solid, sturdy workbench without any screws, nails or glue—that you can break down and take with you!

Oct 11, 2003

Putting the finishing touches on your new workbench — the vices, the dogs, etc.

Oct 18, 2003

Beautiful "compass inlay" on a Pennsylvania Spice Box done in the Pennsylvania/German tradition.

Oct 25, 2003

Jack planes, combination planes, single iron joiners-Roy introduces you to the world of planes—not to mention snipe spills, skew mouth badgers, iron rabbits…

Nov 1, 2003

Learn how to build an odd corner chair called a Roundabout Chair—found in the offices of Dr. Sigmund Freud.

Nov 8, 2003

Need a sign? Let David Calvo show you how to carve one.

Nov 15, 2003

Take a trip to beautiful downtown Paint Lick, KY and meet the old bodger himself, Don Weber. Learn how it was done in the old country.

Nov 22, 2003

Explore Conner Prairie, a living museum in the heart of Indiana. See how life was in the 1800's.

Nov 29, 2003

How do you turn a round table into a triangle. Let Roy show you how.

Dec 6, 2003

Let Roy show you how to make something useful out of scrap wood.

Dec 13, 2003

Roy shows you how the very first Americans worked with wood — the Cherokees of Cherokee Nation.

Dec 20, 2003

Watch Roy make a beautiful red cedar chest out of a tree knocked down by a hurricane.

Sep 25, 2004

Roy shows you how to make a shaving horse to help you make ax handles, wheel spokes and more.

Oct 2, 2004

Not all good things are made out of wood. Anne Pederson shows Roy how to make things out of tin.

Oct 9, 2004

The Acadians, forbearers of the Cajuns, brought a clever idea for a chair with them to Louisiana. Roy explains…

Oct 16, 2004

If you need a washtub, butter churn or water bucket – go see a “white cooper.”

Oct 23, 2004

Roy shows how to build a “spring pole lathe” – powered by foot.

Oct 30, 2004

Need a big ol’ wooden screw for your cider press? Roy will show you how to make one.

Nov 6, 2004

Take a class in kayak building, or build a long bow or a berry basket – all available at the North Folk School.

Nov 13, 2004

Watch Roy transform a big log into a beautiful bowl. Hint: Just remove everything that’s not a bowl.

Nov 20, 2004

Let it snow, then go skiing with Mark Hensen.

Nov 27, 2004

Let Roy show you how to make useful & “useless” things out of one piece of wood – no kidding.

Dec 4, 2004

Roy shows you how to make a standard chess set or a not so standard chess set. Check, Matey!

Dec 11, 2004

Now that you have the chess pieces it’s time to make the chess board – and a box to put the pieces in.

Dec 18, 2004

If you’re a “leg man” you gotta’ see this. Beautiful inlaid legs by Steve Latta.

Oct 1, 2005

Build a small garden bench made of Cypress, and with a south-east Asian design.

Oct 8, 2005

Avoid being frustrated by wooden puzzles by making a wooden knot, and three burr puzzles yourself.

Oct 15, 2005

Jeff Headley and Steve Hamilton visit the shop to show the construction techniques - and secrets - in a Winchester slant-top desk.

Oct 22, 2005

Build the wooden plane pictured in Albrecht Durer's Melancolia

Oct 29, 2005

Join Roy as he inventories woodworking tools he found in three tool chests.

Nov 5, 2005

Roy discusses the "perfection along the axis" found in woodturning

Nov 12, 2005

Build two accessories valuable to the weaver.

Nov 19, 2005

In a two-episode project, Roy builds a workbench with storage underneath from a design from Charles Hayward. In the first episode Roy builds the case, and then in the second finishes with the door and drawers.

Nov 26, 2005

In a two-episode project, Roy builds a workbench with storage underneath from a design from Charles Hayward. In the first episode Roy builds the case, and then in the second finishes with the door and drawers.

Dec 3, 2005

Nora Hall visits the shop and shows the steps to carve a linenfold design.

Dec 10, 2005

David Russell visits and shows the intricacies of corn-shuck chair seats.

Dec 17, 2005

Roy discovers the history of Appalachian people at the museum in Clinton, TN.

Dec 24, 2005

Roy visits Monticello, Poplar Forest and Montpelier to follow the work of the two men who were responsible for most of the construction and woodworking.

Aug 5, 2006

Raise the sails on a fleet in a flask with a master of the maritime miniature.

Oct 7, 2006

Build an oak, three-legged drop-leaf table from the time of the English civil war.

Oct 14, 2006

See how to turn and carve the double spiral of the barley twist leg from Cromwell’s time.

Oct 21, 2006

A second generation Adirondack furniture maker shows how to build chairs - rustic style

Oct 28, 2006

Learn how to bend and turn the stock for a wonderful Windsor highchair.

Nov 4, 2006

Frame and finish the Windsor highchair with the master chair-maker and storyteller.

Nov 11, 2006

Join in Thoreau’s search for moral lessons deep in the grain of the wood.

Nov 18, 2006

A master craftsman shows how to sharpen, tune and use the Japanese plane.

Nov 25, 2006

Oak, ash, elm and iron make the wheel of our barrow.

Dec 2, 2006

Fitting the beveled elm panels into the oak wheelbarrow frame.

Dec 9, 2006

An expert shows how to make and restore webbed and stuffed chair seats.

Dec 16, 2006

Beautiful belt-driven 19th century machines still make window sashes in this New York shop

Dec 23, 2006

Enjoy the journeyman joint that holds your drawers together in a variety of various forms

Sep 29, 2007

Master joiner Peter Follansbee of Plymouth Plantation carves a 17th century “bible box.”

Oct 6, 2007

Turn the base and shaft of an 18th century embroidery stand from Colonial Williamsburg.

Oct 13, 2007

Steam bent hoops and wooden adjusting screws complete the embroidery stand.

Oct 20, 2007

Down and dirty metalworking forges the cutters to make wooden screws.

Oct 27, 2007

This workbench from Provence uses puzzling dovetails to join the legs to the bench top.

Nov 3, 2007

A tool chest, drawers and vises complete the workbench from Provence.

Nov 10, 2007

Meet a modern luthier who works with tools and techniques unchanged for centuries.

Nov 17, 2007

A sliding side reveals the hidden drawer on this missionary’s candle box.

Nov 24, 2007

Shelves that swing keep your plants in the sun on this Victorian contraption.

Dec 1, 2007

Explore woodworking traditions of the Moravian settlers at Old Salem.

Dec 8, 2007

Ox yokes & timber-framing number among the projects at a school using low-tech solutions.

Dec 15, 2007

A Williamsburg blacksmith forges hinges following instructions in a 17th century manual.

Dec 22, 2007

Partake in a celebration of American innovation at Greenfield Village.

Sep 27, 2008

North Carolina Governor Mike Easley shows how to make a walnut side table.

Oct 4, 2008

Pack up your tools in this little dovetailed chest of pine.

Oct 11, 2008

Finish the chest with a mitered and paneled lid and a tongue and groove bottom.

Oct 18, 2008

The sage of Monticello based his five-sided bookstand on designs he found in Paris.

Oct 25, 2008

First lessons in fine furniture carving from Mack Headley, master of the Colonial Williams

Nov 1, 2008

Master blacksmith Peter Ross shows the technique of cold joining and shaping colonial lock

Nov 8, 2008

From bits to braces, augers to angle borers & even boring a square hole,you know the drill

Nov 15, 2008

A Michigan master of folk carving whittles white cedar fans and birds of a wooden feather.

Nov 22, 2008

Imagination (and a few strings) makes these carved critters come to life.

Nov 29, 2008

Master musical instrument makers show classical techniques of hand cutting & wood veneer.

Dec 6, 2008

Create decorative veneer patterns using oval engines, sharp knives/patient perfectionism.

Dec 13, 2008

Welsh chair bodger Don Weber turns his hand to recreating a medieval tool kit.

Dec 20, 2008

From chair building to instrument making to fine furniture collections.

Sep 26, 2009

Walnut and boxwood make a little box with a secret lock to stash the woodworker’s pal.

Oct 3, 2009

Grinding forever as his wife cranks the stone, the whirlygig man turns our hand to mechanical toys.

Oct 10, 2009

The Shakers were rocking in this classic chair of turned and steam-bent maple.

Oct 17, 2009

Traditional Shaker worsted tape in checkerboard patterns makes a sweet seat.

Oct 24, 2009

Swelling and shrinking, bending and breaking, the worker with wood must be wetness aware!

Oct 31, 2009

Fired by wood scraps, a giant steam engine drives ancient saws and window sash mills.

Nov 7, 2009

Fired by wood scraps, a giant steam engine drives ancient saws and window sash mills.

Nov 14, 2009

With artful arched feet and tenoned trestle top, this Shaker side table stands sturdy and fine.

Nov 21, 2009

Strong and resilient, wood has the lively lightness to support a leg when it’s lacking.

Nov 28, 2009

With its turned top and dovetailed legs, this walnut tripod table is a classic of American design.

Dec 5, 2009

An Asheville artisan shows the secrets of the steam-bent green-wood chair

Dec 12, 2009

Build the frame and panel door of this corner cupboard—an early American classic.

Dec 19, 2009

Complete your corner cupboard with glass casement doors and molded crown.

Sep 25, 2010

Long splined miters anyone? That’s how you join the coffin-like case of this 18th-century corner cupboard. See how to make the special jigs to hand plane this crucial joint with precision and dignity.

Oct 2, 2010

You can make any complex molding you want with simple hand planes—just take it one curve at a time. Bill Anderson and Roy show how to flute your pilasters and carve your cornice for this comely corner cupboard.

Oct 9, 2010

This butt joint of distinction joins everything from picture frames to crown moldings. Learn all the angles and see how to carefully cut corners as we master the miter box for fitting frames and fine furniture.

Oct 16, 2010

We’ll delve into the drawers in search of the secret of an old tool chest. The quality of the tools shows that it belonged to a first class joiner back in the early 1800s, but the dovetail joints break all the rules.

Oct 23, 2010

Chairmaker Elia Bizzarri joins us to make this elegant and comfortable rocking chair. We’ll turn the legs and frame the seat in part one of this American classic.

Oct 30, 2010

We’ll finish our rocking chair as we steam and bend the continuous arm's one-piece back. With its compound bend, this challenging chair is truly an American design innovation.

Nov 6, 2010

Sloyd, the late 19th-century Swedish system of learning woodworking was intended to develop skilled, industrious and morally upstanding citizens. We’ll give it a try, and hope it’s not too late for us!

Nov 13, 2010

So many books, so little space! Say goodbye to cinderblocks and sagging shelves as you see how to cut the essential dado and sliding joints to build this better bookcase.

Nov 20, 2010

Chris Schwarz, editor of Popular Woodworking Magazine, joins Roy to explore the three classes of English sawcuts. Chris reveals the devious French tenon cheat, and even shows us how to saw without a saw!

Nov 27, 2010

How can you stretch a basic kit of tools to build impressive casework? Chris Schwarz, editor of Popular Woodworking Magazine, shows how with the toolkit of young Thomas, hero of the 1839 book The Joiner and Cabinet Maker.

Dec 4, 2010

In the days of slavery, Thomas Day, a free black cabinetmaker in North Carolina, was one of the most respected artisans in the South. We’ll look beneath the veneer on his furniture and discover his intriguing architectural work.

Dec 11, 2010

Mortise and tenon joints frame this classic feature of the English countryside. It’s a rustic woodworking challenge as we balance both beauty and strength to make a gate that will keep swinging for decades.

Dec 18, 2010

Hinges Master blacksmith Peter Ross turns his hammer to forging iron hinges for our oak field gate. We’ll see how to shape and weld wrought iron for straps and pintles to make our gate swing true.

Walnut bookstand.

Bow saw.

Making wooden rakes and rounded reels from steam-bent stock.

Making the stiles and rails of a classic raised panel door.

Gleaming surfaces, tight joints and crisp moldings through perfect planing.

A simple square with laps and bridles.

Nov 5, 2011

Traditional joint stool.

Making spoons using an axe and traditional hook knife.

Making a name in holly wood by setting slender stringing into the slotted surface.

Classic hammer veneering.

Spike dogs and cant hooks for log holding and handling.

Dec 10, 2011

Turning ovals and offsets by measuring once and turning twice.

Dec 17, 2011

Oct 6, 2012

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.

Oct 13, 2012

Grooves and splines make a tidy oak box, but can we cut the joints just using hand tools? And do we want to?

Oct 6, 2012

You can’t make a drop leaf table without the rule joint. So, what are the tools you need to cut it by hand? Bill Anderson drops by with the answer.

Oct 27, 2012

Chris Schwarz’s anarchist’s tool chest starts a back-to-basics revolution! Learn his classic system of simplicity to set your work life free.

Nov 3, 2012

Secrets of the mysterious two-screw vise revealed! Chris Schwarz joins Roy Underhill to rediscover this enigmatic wooden vise.

Nov 10, 2012

Make your own darn metal screws with this 1889 foot-powered lathe! Roy shows how to cut perfect threads, cones and tapers in iron and brass.

Nov 3, 2012

The old triangular stool spells trouble for Peter Follansbee and Roy Underhill as they tackle a trio of terrible turned tenons!

Nov 10, 2012

With foot-powered lathes, Peter Follansbee and Roy Underhill turn this adjustable bookstand from walnut and maple.

Dec 1, 2012

Make raised panels for your doors with care and flair! Roy Underhill uses both complex planes and tricks with basic tools to raise the classic panel.

Nov 24, 2012

Woodcarver Mary May makes basswood flowers bloom. Get in the groove of high-relief carving with sharp gouges and good-grained wood!

Dec 1, 2012

Haul out the anvil and forge this essential bench tool! Blacksmith Peter Ross shows how to forge historical versions of this powerful gripper.

Dec 8, 2012

Make this Shaker cabinet and dwell in utopian serenity! Simple to construct and elegant in design, this cupboard is a standby in any room or shop.

Dec 15, 2012

What made these American communal craftsmen tick? From their furniture to their bentwood boxes, the Shakers may be our most modern artisans.

Sep 21, 2013

Give your butt joints a break with the tenons and dovetails that connect this pine standing desk from Pennsylvania.

Sep 28, 2013

The miter-clamped breadboard end makes a broad desktop that always stays flat.

Oct 5, 2013

Roy Underhill demonstrates how to cut bead moldings with hand planes for corners that look sharp and last longer.

Oct 12, 2013

Classical carver Mary May provides a lesson on woodcarving and a proper rebuke for edge tool abuse!

Oct 19, 2013

Roy duplicates the beveled bridle joints and chamfered chops of an old saw-sharpening vise.

Oct 26, 2013

Using giant model rip and crosscut saws, Roy demonstrates how to correctly sharpen handsaws.

Nov 2, 2013

Roy attempts to replace a chest of molding planes with one complex metal contraption

Nov 9, 2013

The master joiner of Plimoth Plantation shows how to frame a small, mortised, and tenoned chest in the old English style.

Nov 16, 2013

A master joiner shows Roy how to make and fit the beveled panels and storage till into a framed chest from the Pilgrim era.

Nov 23, 2013

Master blacksmith Peter Ross shows how to forge iron hinges and locks from the earliest days of the American experience.

Nov 30, 2013

Chris Schwarz shows Roy how to measure up with an English try square based on the examples in the famous Benjamin Seaton tool chest.

Dec 7, 2013

Learn to make the simple and useful Dutch tool chest with its characteristic 30-degree slanted lid.

Dec 14, 2013

With ash head and hickory handle, Roy shows how to make a proper joiner's mallet for the ages.

Sep 19, 2014

Your legs will stay tight in this classic German carpenter’s bench built with stopped sliding dovetails.

Sep 27, 2014

This pair of sliding diagonal rods with copper collars will help you get your chests square and your dovetails tight.

Oct 2, 2014

Walnut legs riven from the log begin this table inspired by the Dominy workshops.

Oct 11, 2014

A walnut burl top and tricky turning makes tapered dovetails for a three-legged table.

Oct 18, 2014

From the holdfast to the birdsmouth, Roy explores wondrous ways to grip the grain and rediscovers and old trick from a rare book.

Oct 25, 2014

Learn to cut the rising diagonal dovetail for corners that are stronger and striking, no matter how you look at them.

Nov 1, 2014

The old shop-class plant stand joined with half-laps and dowels teaches us to pay attention to the grain, not just the machine.

Nov 8, 2014

Christopher Schwarz shows the ins and outs of Campaign furniture made for travel to the far-flung reaches of the Empire.

Nov 15, 2014

Chris Schwarz shows how to fit brass corners and hardware flush with the surfaces of Campaign furniture.

Nov 22, 2014

An old shaving horse from the Virginia mountains demonstrates that the natural shapes in timber make the strongest wooden construction.

Dec 6, 2014

Tom Calisto joins Roy to make a brass-backed hand saw perfect for the finest dovetails or the toughest tenons.

Dec 13, 2014

Blacksmith Peter Ross shows how to forge, weld, harden and temper tool steel for cutting edges that stay sharp longer.

Dec 20, 2014

The Underhill Rose band joins Roy in the shop for a musical misadventure in the ways of the Woodwright.

Sep 19, 2015

Part 1 of 2. A rocking cradle modeled after one spotted in the Grand Bazaar of Istanbul is crafted in the Season 35 premiere.

Sep 26, 2015

Conclusion. A rocking cradle is completed with pine sides and rockers. A lathe-turned carrier bar joins it all together.

Oct 3, 2015

Woodcarver Mary May joins Roy to carve springerle cookie molds for every occasion.

Oct 10, 2015

How to cut the mortise and tenon joints for the legs and frame of a Shaker table.

Oct 17, 2015

The dovetailed and grooved construction techniques found inside Shaker drawers are detailed.

Oct 24, 2015

Cherry knobs for Shaker furniture are turned on a foot-powered lathe. Also: finishing a joined table top.

Oct 31, 2015

How to use a cross-cutting wood saw.

Nov 7, 2015

Master craftsman Peter Follansbee joins Roy to hew huge bowls from poplar & sycamore wood.

Nov 14, 2015

These most basic molding planes also prove the most versatile as we look at making and using wooden hollows and rounds.

Nov 21, 2015

Roy makes this country cousin of the Windsor chair using the same tools and techniques.

Nov 28, 2015

The challenge of the Welsh stick chair continues as Roy shapes spindles and backs for a proper sit-down.

Dec 5, 2015

Dividers, calipers and turning tools take shape as master blacksmith Peter Ross shows Roy the art of tool-making.

Dec 12, 2015

Roy looks into the simplest form of furniture, the plain pine box.

Sep 17, 2016

The Season 36 premiere shows how to make a chair similar to the one portrayed in Vincent Van Gogh's masterpiece.

Sep 24, 2016

Roy shows how to create easy-to-make wooden gift boxes with mitered corners and lids that slide in grooves.

Oct 1, 2016

Master of Pilgrim-century furniture Peter Follansbee joins Roy to make a slope-lidded, carved box from carved white and red oak.

Oct 8, 2016

Figures from history including Benjamin Franklin and Muhammad Ali inspire Roy’s new line of waving arm wooden whirlygigs.

Oct 15, 2016

Roy and workbench builder Will Myers test out the strength of the classic wedged mortise and tenon joint for take-apart furniture.

Oct 22, 2016

Woodworker Peter Follansbee shows Roy Underhill how to make Swedish shrink boxes from hollowed wood with inserted bottoms.

Oct 29, 2016

The great poet-athlete Muhammad Ali inspires the best lessons in woodworking – Saw Like a Butterfly, Plane Like a Bee!

Nov 5, 2016

Chair-maker Elia Bizzarri shows Roy how to make a split oak firewood carrier inspired by the classic wooden harvest rake.

Nov 12, 2016

Roy Underhill makes a double, swinging casement window using wooden planes and premium pine.

Dec 3, 2016

Christopher Schwarz & Roy unlocks the secrets of the ancient Roman woodworker’s bench.

Dec 10, 2016

A plank with inserted legs becomes a chair, a table, or a bench...

Dec 17, 2016

Tool Chest Hinges & Latch

Dec 24, 2016

Roy shows how to dovetail a stout, sloped top tool chest.

Sep 16, 2017

Sloyd, the late 19th century Swedish system of learning woodworking was intended to develop skilled, industrious, and morally upstanding citizens. We’ll give it a try, and hope it’s not too late for us!

Sep 23, 2017

Steve Latta shows how to create decorative veneer patterns using oval engines, sharp knives, and patient perfectionism.

Sep 30, 2017

One piece of walnut makes a beautiful bookstand as we follow the formula of an old French master.

Oct 7, 2017

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.

Oct 14, 2017

Learn how to make gleaming surfaces, tight joints and crisp moldings through perfect planing.

Oct 21, 2017

Make a proper joiner’s mallet and you’ll never be lonely again! With ash head and hickory handle, Roy shows how to make a mallet for the ages.

Oct 28, 2017

Classical carver Mary May gives Roy his first lessons on woodcarving – along with a proper rebuke for edge tool abuse!

Nov 4, 2017

Walnut and boxwood make a little box with a secret lock to stash the woodworker’s pal.

Nov 11, 2017

Nov 18, 2017

Nov 25, 2017

Dec 2, 2017

Dec 9, 2017