Plain Pine Box

Airdate: Sat, Dec 12, 2015

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

Tool Smithing with Peter Ross

Airdate: Sat, Dec 05, 2015

Dividers, calipers and turning tools take shape as master blacksmith Peter Ross shows Roy.

Welsh Stick Chair II

Airdate: Sat, Nov 28, 2015

The challenge of the Welsh stick chair continues as Roy shapes spindles and backs.

Welsh Stick Chair I

Airdate: Sat, Nov 21, 2015

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

Hollows & Rounds

Airdate: Sat, Nov 14, 2015

These most basic molding planes also prove the most versatile.

Groovers and Shakers

Airdate: Sat, Oct 17, 2015

Discover the secrets inside Shaker drawers as Roy explores their dovetailed construction.

Double Drawer Shaker Table

Airdate: Sat, Oct 10, 2015

Roy cuts the tricky mortise and tenon joints for the legs and frame of this Shaker table.

Bowl Carving with Peter Follansbee

Airdate: Sat, Nov 07, 2015

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

Cross Cut Conundrum

Airdate: Sat, Oct 31, 2015

A cross-cutting wood saw seems the most simple of tools, but Roy finds sharp lessons.

Turning Shaker Knobs

Airdate: Sat, Oct 24, 2015

With foot-powered lathe, Roy turns the cherry knobs for Shaker furniture.

Stamp Out Cookie Carving!

Airdate: Sat, Oct 03, 2015

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

Rocky Bentwood Baby Cradle II

Airdate: Sat, Sep 26, 2015

Roy completes the rocking cradle with pine sides and rockers.

Rocky Bentwood Baby Cradle I

Airdate: Sat, Sep 19, 2015

Roy rives, shapes and bends the ash wood bows for a rocking.

Dovetail Saw

Airdate: Sat, Dec 06, 2014

Make a brass-backed hand saw perfect for the finest dovetails or the toughest tenons.

The Crotch and the Horse

Airdate: Sat, Nov 29, 2014

An old shaving horse shows how the natural shapes make the strongest wooden construction.

Fitting Brass

Airdate: Sat, Nov 22, 2014

How to fit brass corners and hardware flush with the surfaces of Campaign furniture.

Campaign Furniture

Airdate: Sat, Nov 15, 2014

The ins and outs of Campaign furniture made for travel.

Shop Class Tabouret

Airdate: Sat, Nov 08, 2014

The old shop-class plant stand joined with half-laps and dowels.

Daring Diagonal Dovetails

Airdate: Sat, Nov 01, 2014

Cut the rising diagonal dovetail for corners that are stronger and striking!

Viceless Devices

Airdate: Sat, Oct 25, 2014

29 From the holdfast to the birdsmouth, Roy explores wondrous ways to grip the grain.

Tapered Tail Tripod Table 2

Airdate: Sat, Oct 18, 2014

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

Tapered Tail Tripod Table 1

Airdate: Sat, Oct 11, 2014

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

Pinch Rods and Squeezy Blocks

Airdate: Sat, Oct 04, 2014

This pair of sliding diagonal rods with copper collars will help you square your chest.

Taming the Timber Bench

Airdate: Sat, Sep 27, 2014

Legs stay tight in this classic carpenter's bench built with stopped sliding dovetails.

The Woodwright's Shop" 20th Anniversary

Airdate: Mon, Dec 30, 2002

Roy Underhill celebrates 20 years of "The Woodwright's Shop."

Carving Away with Mary May

Airdate: Wed, Sep 04, 2013

Classical carver Mary May gives Roy Underhill his first lessons on woodcarving.

Rachell

Airdate: Sun, Sep 01, 2013

Give your butt joints a break with this pine standing desk from Pennsylvania.

Woodworking With Tillers International

Airdate: Sat, Nov 10, 2007

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

Screw Box for Wooden Threads

Airdate: Sat, Sep 22, 2007

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

A Viking Tool Chest

Airdate: Sat, Oct 30, 2010

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

Holly Wood Spectaculars

Airdate: Sat, Oct 23, 2010

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

Animated Wooden Toys

Airdate: Sat, Oct 09, 2010

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

Lumberjack Fan Carving

Airdate: Sat, Oct 02, 2010

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

A Very Boring Program

Airdate: Sat, Sep 25, 2010

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

File Philosophy

Airdate: Sat, Sep 18, 2010

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

Joiner's Tool Chest Pt.2

Airdate: Tue, Aug 24, 2010

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

Classical Carving

Airdate: Sat, Sep 11, 2010

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

Joiner's Tool Chest Pt.1

Airdate: Tue, Aug 17, 2010

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

The Governor's PoBoy

Airdate: Tue, Aug 10, 2010

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

The Dovetail Variations

Airdate: Sat, Oct 28, 2006

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

Old Woodworking Machines

Airdate: Sat, Oct 21, 2006

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

Barley Twist Table, Pt.2

Airdate: Sat, Aug 19, 2006

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

Barley Twist Table, Pt.1

Airdate: Sat, Aug 12, 2006

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

Screw Cuttin

Airdate: Thu, Sep 06, 2012

Roy Underhill shows how to use an 1889 foot-driven metal working lathe.

The Shaker Bend

Airdate: Thu, Sep 13, 2012

What made these American communal craftsmen tick'

Forging the Hold Fast

Airdate: Tue, Sep 11, 2012

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Raising Panel-Zona

Airdate: Sun, Sep 09, 2012

Host Roy Underhill shows various ways to make raised panels for doors.

The Enfield Cupboard

Airdate: Wed, Sep 12, 2012

Make this Shaker cabinet and dwell in utopian serenity!

Carving the Camellia Woodcarver

Airdate: Mon, Sep 10, 2012

Woodcarver Mary May gives Roy Underhill his first lessons in floral carving.

Wretched Ratchet Reading Rack

Airdate: Sat, Sep 08, 2012

Turning a racheting bookstand with Peter Follansbee and Roy Underhill.

The Troublesome Triangle Stool

Airdate: Fri, Sep 07, 2012

Peter Follansbee shows Roy how to make a proper three-legged 17th-century chair.

Two Screws for You!

Airdate: Wed, Sep 05, 2012

Christopher Schwarz challenges Roy with a bench-top vise that changes everything!

The Anarchist

Airdate: Tue, Sep 04, 2012

Christopher Schwarz joins Roy to advocate the tool chest-driven life.

Table Joints Rule!

Airdate: Mon, Sep 03, 2012

Bill Anderson and Roy Underhill explore the drop-leaf rule joint for tables.

Making Marvelous Moldings

Airdate: Sat, Jun 18, 2011

You can make any complex molding you want with simple hand planes.

Case of the Corner Cupboard - MZ

Airdate: Sat, Jun 11, 2011

Long splined miters anyone'

Offset Turning For Hardwood Handles and Padfoot lLegs

Airdate: Sat, Dec 17, 2011

Roy Underhill shows the art of offset wood turning for making oval handles.

Simple Sash Restoration

Airdate: Sat, Dec 24, 2011

Window sash made with vintage woodworking tools by host Roy Underhill.

Hammer Veneering with Steve Latta

Airdate: Sat, Dec 03, 2011

Steve Latta shows Roy Underhill how to apply wooden veneer with classic hand tools.

Iron Work for Timber Work

Airdate: Sat, Dec 10, 2011

Blacksmithing lessons from Peter Ross as Roy Underhill learns to forge.

Carving Swedish Spoons with Peter Follansbee

Airdate: Sat, Dec 17, 2011

With axe and traditional hook knife....

Elizabethan Joint Stool with Peter Follansbee

Airdate: Sat, Nov 12, 2011

The master joiner of Plimoth Plantation shows us...

Inlaid Lettering with Steve Latta

Airdate: Sat, Nov 26, 2011

See how to make your name in holly wood....

English Layout Square with Chris Schwarz

Airdate: Sat, Nov 05, 2011

Building this simple square with laps and bridles

Hand Plane Essentials with Chris Schwarz

Airdate: Sat, Oct 29, 2011

Learn how to make gleaming surfaces, tight joints....

Painless Panel Doors

Airdate: Sat, Oct 22, 2011

Starting with simple sticks....

Hurray for Hickory!

Airdate: Sat, Oct 15, 2011

This essential American wood has what it take....

As the Saw Turns

Airdate: Sat, Oct 08, 2011

...for cuttingcurves based on the pattern of century-old example.

The Roubo Bookstand

Airdate: Sat, Oct 01, 2011

One piece of walnut makes a beautiful bookstand...

Field Gate Hinges

Airdate: Fri, Jan 28, 2011

Master blacksmith Peter Ross turns his hammer to forging iron hinges for our oak gate.

Oak Field Gate

Airdate: Fri, Jan 28, 2011

Mortise and tenon joints frame this classic feature of the English countryside.

Thomas Day, Cabinetmaker

Airdate: Fri, Jan 28, 2011

In the days of slavery, Thomas Day was a respected free black cabinetmaker in NC.

Sawing Secrets

Airdate: Fri, Jan 28, 2011

Chris Schwarz, editor of Popular Woodworking Magazine, joins Roy...

The Case for Books

Airdate: Fri, Jan 28, 2011

So many books, so little space! Say goodbye to cinderblocks and sagging shelves....

Who Wrote the Book of Sloyd'

Airdate: Fri, Jan 28, 2011

Sloyd, the late 19th-century Swedish system of learning woodworking ...

Continuous Arm Rocking Chair, Part 1

Airdate: Fri, Jan 28, 2011

Chairmaker Elia Bizzarri joins us to make this elegant and comfortable rocking chair.

The Till in the Tool Chest

Airdate: Fri, Jan 28, 2011

We will delve into the drawers in search of the secret of an old tool chest

Continuous Arm Rocking Chair, Part 2

Airdate: Fri, Jan 28, 2011

chair as we steam and bend the continuous arm's one-piece back.

Mind Over Miter

Airdate: Fri, Jan 28, 2011

This butt joint of distinction joins everything from picture frames to crown moldings.

Making Marvelous Moldings

Airdate: Fri, Jan 28, 2011

This butt joint of distinction joins everything from picture frames to crown moldings.

Case of the Corner Cupboard

Airdate: Fri, Jan 28, 2011

This butt joint of distinction joins everything from picture frames to crown moldings.

Corner Cupboard, Part 2

Airdate: Mon, Mar 01, 2010

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

Corner Cupboard, Part 1

Airdate: Mon, Mar 01, 2010

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

Hancock Pedestal Table

Airdate: Mon, Mar 01, 2010

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

Brian Boggs, Chairmaker

Airdate: Mon, Mar 01, 2010

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

Steam Power Sawmill

Airdate: Mon, Mar 01, 2010

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

A Crutch in Time

Airdate: Mon, Mar 01, 2010

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

Harvard Side Table

Airdate: Mon, Mar 01, 2010

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

Mary May, Woodcarver

Airdate: Sun, Feb 28, 2010

A Charleston woodcarver shows how she creates details of delight.

Wood & Water

Airdate: Sun, Feb 28, 2010

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

Shaker Rocker Seat

Airdate: Sun, Feb 28, 2010

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

Shaker Rocker Frame

Airdate: Sun, Feb 28, 2010

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

Secrets of the Whirlygig

Airdate: Sun, Feb 28, 2010

The whirlygig man turns our hand to mechanical toys.

Dovetailed Grease Pot Walnut

Airdate: Fri, Feb 26, 2010

Dovetailed Grease Pot Walnut and boxwood