Episodes13
The Sawhorse
The tools we use can be beautiful too! Roy shows you how to build beautiful saw horse.
Welsh 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.
Toolbox 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.
Rounder Plane
An endless “pencil” sharpener to make round tapered handles for rake, boat spars- and more.
Walnut Krumhorn
Get down, get musical! Produce a wonderful old wind instrument from the Elizabethan era- the Krumhorn!
Timber Frame at the Folklife Festival
Join Roy at the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival and learn how to build a timber-frame barn.
Impossible Joints
Make a mysterious puzzle mallet with a devilishly difficult dovetail that’s impossible to break!
Fools for Tools
Roy shows you how to find and restore traditional tools needed to do old time traditional woodworking.
Blacksmith Hinges
Join Roy at the Anderson Forge in Colonial Williamsburg and see how to make a traditional cross garnet hinge.
Tiny Furniture
Learn how to make “big” furniture by starting with scaled down versions.
Window from Williamsburg
Learn how to build a four-light Colonial window sash.
Flintlock Gunsmith
Roy visits the Gunsmith Shop at Colonial Williamsburg to see how 18th century flintlock rifles were made.
Colonial Tablemaker
Watch Roy “spin the wheel” at the Cabinet shop in Colonial Williamsburg as they produce 18th century furniture the old fashioned way.