Season 21
13 episodes · 2001
1The Sawhorse
The tools we use can be beautiful too! Roy shows you how to build beautiful saw horse.
2Welsh Chair Bodger Don Weber
Roy teams up with the old Welsh Bodger himself and together they demonstrate how to build a classic Welsh Stick Chair.
3Toolbox from the 1940s
You can learn how to build a timeless relic from past generations of fine woodworkers in this episode, a Joiner’s Tool Box.
4Rounder Plane
An endless “pencil” sharpener to make round tapered handles for rake, boat spars- and more.
5Walnut Krumhorn
Get down, get musical! Produce a wonderful old wind instrument from the Elizabethan era- the Krumhorn!
6Timber Frame at the Folklife Festival
Join Roy at the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival and learn how to build a timber-frame barn.
7Impossible Joints
Make a mysterious puzzle mallet with a devilishly difficult dovetail that’s impossible to break!
8Fools for Tools
Roy shows you how to find and restore traditional tools needed to do old time traditional woodworking.
9Blacksmith Hinges
Join Roy at the Anderson Forge in Colonial Williamsburg and see how to make a traditional cross garnet hinge.
10Tiny Furniture
Learn how to make “big” furniture by starting with scaled down versions.
11Window from Williamsburg
Learn how to build a four-light Colonial window sash.
12Flintlock Gunsmith
Roy visits the Gunsmith Shop at Colonial Williamsburg to see how 18th century flintlock rifles were made.
13Colonial Tablemakerfinale
Watch Roy “spin the wheel” at the Cabinet shop in Colonial Williamsburg as they produce 18th century furniture the old fashioned way.