Season 18
13 episodes · 1998
1Dovetailing a Cedar Box
Learn simple box dovetails and create some shop characters that can hang out inside.
2Chip Carving
Dress up a small cedar box with a variety of chip carving designs.
3Chairs for Children
Roy makes a walnut stick chair and a pine slab chair perfectly sized for children.
4Bark and Rustic Work
Learn the details to add a hickory bark seat to a child’s chair.
5Debate of the Carpenter's Tools
Roy draws on poetry from the 1400s to explain what tools were used by wrights of the day.
6Treadle Lathe
Build an improved version of Roy’s 20-year-old treadle lathe design — and it starts with scrap lumber!
7White Oak Basket
A class on basket weaving? You bet! Weave a white oak basket with Roy.
8Wall Tool Chest
Roy uses a red oak tool chest to illustrate a discussion on hand planes.
9Woodworking Gizmos
Learn to convert a treadle lathe into a treadle jigsaw.
10Traditional Toys
Roy shows how to make a traditional Russian pecking-chicken toy.
11Old Salem
Roy visits Old Salem, North Carolina, founded in the 1760s by the Moravians. Their craft lives on in the recreated town.
12Swinging Cradle from Saxony
Learn to build a scaled-down German swinging cradle built with lapstrake construction.
13Jamestown Woodworkers, 1607finale
Learn about the history and the early settlers of the Jamestown, Virginia settlement.