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Season 21

13 episodes · 2001

  1. 1The Sawhorse

    29 Sep 2001

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

  2. 2Welsh Chair Bodger Don Weber

    06 Oct 2001

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

  3. 3Toolbox from the 1940s

    13 Oct 2001

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

  4. 4Rounder Plane

    20 Oct 2001

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

  5. 5Walnut Krumhorn

    27 Oct 2001

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

  6. 6Timber Frame at the Folklife Festival

    03 Nov 2001

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

  7. 7Impossible Joints

    10 Nov 2001

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

  8. 8Fools for Tools

    17 Nov 2001

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

  9. 9Blacksmith Hinges

    24 Nov 2001

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

  10. 10Tiny Furniture

    01 Dec 2001

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

  11. 11Window from Williamsburg

    08 Dec 2001

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

  12. 12Flintlock Gunsmith

    15 Dec 2001

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

  13. 13Colonial Tablemakerfinale

    22 Dec 2001

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