Episodes
Dovetailing a Cedar Box
October 3, 1998
Learn simple box dovetails and create some shop characters that can hang out inside.
Chip Carving
October 10, 1998
Dress up a small cedar box with a variety of chip carving designs.
Chairs for Children
October 17, 1998
Roy makes a walnut stick chair and a pine slab chair perfectly sized for children.
Bark and Rustic Work
October 24, 1998
Learn the details to add a hickory bark seat to a child’s chair.
Debate of the Carpenter's Tools
October 31, 1998
Roy draws on poetry from the 1400s to explain what tools were used by wrights of the day.
Treadle Lathe
November 7, 1998
Build an improved version of Roy’s 20-year-old treadle lathe design — and it starts with scrap lumber!
White Oak Basket
November 14, 1998
A class on basket weaving? You bet! Weave a white oak basket with Roy.
Wall Tool Chest
November 21, 1998
Roy uses a red oak tool chest to illustrate a discussion on hand planes.
Woodworking Gizmos
November 28, 1998
Learn to convert a treadle lathe into a treadle jigsaw.
Traditional Toys
December 5, 1998
Roy shows how to make a traditional Russian pecking-chicken toy.
Old Salem
December 12, 1998
Roy visits Old Salem, North Carolina, founded in the 1760s by the Moravians. Their craft lives on in the recreated town.
Swinging Cradle from Saxony
December 19, 1998
Learn to build a scaled-down German swinging cradle built with lapstrake construction.
Jamestown Woodworkers, 1607
December 26, 1998
Learn about the history and the early settlers of the Jamestown, Virginia settlement.
