Season 33
13 episodes · 2013
1Rachell's Standing Desk PT. 1
Give your butt joints a break with the tenons and dovetails that connect this pine standing desk from Pennsylvania.
2Rachell's Standing Desk PT. 2
The miter-clamped breadboard end makes a broad desktop that always stays flat.
3The Venerable Bead
Roy Underhill demonstrates how to cut bead moldings with hand planes for corners that look sharp and last longer.
4Carving Away With Mary May
Classical carver Mary May provides a lesson on woodcarving and a proper rebuke for edge tool abuse!
5Swinging Saw Vise
Roy duplicates the beveled bridle joints and chamfered chops of an old saw-sharpening vise.
6Sharpen That Saw!
Using giant model rip and crosscut saws, Roy demonstrates how to correctly sharpen handsaws.
7Combination Planes
Roy attempts to replace a chest of molding planes with one complex metal contraption
8Joined Chest With Peter Follansbee
The master joiner of Plimoth Plantation shows how to frame a small, mortised, and tenoned chest in the old English style.
9Paneled Chest With Peter Follansbee
A master joiner shows Roy how to make and fit the beveled panels and storage till into a framed chest from the Pilgrim era.
10Early Iron With Peter Ross
Master blacksmith Peter Ross shows how to forge iron hinges and locks from the earliest days of the American experience.
11Try Square with Christopher Schwarz
Chris Schwarz shows Roy how to measure up with an English try square based on the examples in the famous Benjamin Seaton tool chest.
12Dutch Tool Chest with Christopher Schwarz
Learn to make the simple and useful Dutch tool chest with its characteristic 30-degree slanted lid.
13Big Ash Mallet!finale
With ash head and hickory handle, Roy shows how to make a proper joiner's mallet for the ages.
