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MovieNerd ScoreThe Woodwright's Shop is a traditional woodworking show hosted by Roy Underhill on the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States. It is one of the longest running "how to" shows on PBS. Since its debut in 1979, the show has aired over 400 episodes. The first two seasons were broadcast only on public TV in North Carolina; the season numbering was restarted when the show went national in 1981. It is still filmed at the UNC-TV studios in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
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Season 1
13 episodes
S1 E1 · Maul & Glut
Watch Roy make two traditional tools by first felling a tree then shaping a maul and glut using period iron woodworking tools.
S1 E2 · Shaving Horse
Learn how to make a shaving horse – one of the most important hand-tool shop fixtures for working with drawknives and spokeshaves.
S1 E3 · Shaving Horse Part 2
Learn how to make a shaving horse – one of the most important hand-tool shop fixtures for working with drawknives and spokeshaves.
S1 E4 · Hay Rake
Spend time with Roy as he shows you how to build one of his favorite projects: a hickory hay rake that is both strong and lightweight.
S1 E5 · Lathes
Join Roy on a tour of the history and development of human powered machines, including one of his favorites: the lathe.
S1 E6 · Rocking Chair
Learn how to build a classic armless rocking chair using traditional tools and techniques. Then create a woven white oak seat for the rocker. Plus, watch as Roy’s guest Bryant Holsenbeck demonstrates how to weave a traditional basket.
S1 E7 · Rocking Chair Part 2
Learn how to build a classic armless rocking chair using traditional tools and techniques. Then create a woven white oak seat for the rocker. Plus, watch as Roy’s guest Bryant Holsenbeck demonstrates how to weave a traditional basket.
S1 E8 · Log Cabin
Watch as Roy demonstrates the steps and hand-hewn joinery used in building traditional log cabins.
S1 E9 · Timberframe Construction
Watch and learn as Roy addresses the details of timber framing, including post-and-beam and mortise-and-tenon construction techniques.
S1 E10 · Dough Bowls and Pitch Forks
Watch as Roy makes a pitchfork and a dough bowl, each from a single piece of wood.
S1 E11 · Blacksmithing
Spend some time at the forge with Roy to learn basic blacksmithing techniques and discover how to create a spike dog (a tool used in timber framing).
S1 E12 · Panel Frame and Dovetail
Follow along as Roy discusses frame-and-panel construction for doors, and the basic steps for cutting a dovetailed joint.
S1 E13 · Colonial Williamsburg
Travel with Roy to Colonial Williamsburg to take a look at 18th-century craftsmanship including a visit with a wheelwright, a cooper and a blacksmith, as well as a look inside the Anthony Hay Cabinet Shop.
Season 2
12 episodes
S2 E1 · Getting a Grip on It
Handles — Watch as Roy examines a number of tool handles, then creates an axe handle from a split of hickory and turns a chisel handle.
S2 E2 · Candle Stand
Candle Stand — Follow along as Roy walks you through the steps of creating a classic walnut candle stand.
S2 E3 · Plane Truth, Version 1
Learn the history of a wide variety of handplanes as Roy explains their many and specialized uses.
S2 E4 · Plane Truth, Version 2
Learn the history of a wide variety of handplanes as Roy explains their many and specialized uses.
S2 E5 · Getting Into Drawers
Join Roy as he makes a hand-hewn, half-blind dovetailed drawer for his workbench, and discusses many of the techniques used in traditional drawer making.
S2 E6 · Finding and Fixing
See what Roy discovers at a scrap yard, antique store and flea market on his way to “The Woodwright’s Shop.”
S2 E7 · Cutting your Teeth
It’s all about staying sharp, and in this episode Roy examines the dizzying array of saws available, from familiar panel saws to bowsaws and pit saws. Plus, as a special bonus Roy shows you how to sharpen a bowsaw.
S2 E8 · While the Iron's Hot
Accompany Roy on a visit to Colonial Williamsburg to work with the living history museum’s blacksmiths as they make a froe, and forge a cant hook.
S2 E9 · Straight and Narrow
Roy takes us through the hand-crafted creation process of a sash-style window, explaining the stiles, rails and muntins.
S2 E10 · Vernacular Sash
Roy takes us through the hand-crafted creation process of a sash-style window, explaining the stiles, rails and muntins.
S2 E11 · Woodwright at Sea
The evolution of modern boat building in America starts with simple designs such as those found in rough-hewn canoes – and its surprisingly fundamental. Watch Roy explore how to build a boat as he visits the Hampton Mariner’s Museum and discusses boat building that’s large and complex. There is a clear evolution in tools and techniques and it’s both instructive and entertaining to watch this process.
S2 E12 · Tale of Two Toys
Roy looks at a collection of classic wood toys, and then shows us the steps to create a Crow Chaser.
Season 3
13 episodes
S3 E1 · Inner Woodworking
Observe as Roy looks at the mechanics of wood and how a trees’ growth affects how you work wood once you have it in your shop.
S3 E2 · Workbench
Watch as Roy handcrafts a grand, classic workbench using pegged and keyed mortise-and-tenon construction.
S3 E3 · Cooper’s Bucket
See how Roy and coopers from Colonial Williamsburg work together to make a cooper’s bucket.
S3 E4 · Blanket Chest
Follow along as Roy builds a stunning nailed-together, six-board blanket chest with an interior till.
S3 E5 · Simple Gifts
Watch and learn as Roy builds three simple gift projects, including a flapping duck toy, a small pine knock-down bench and a wooden egg beater.”
S3 E6 · Whimsy Diddling
Join Roy as he walks you through the process for making a Gee Haw Wimmey Diddle, a quintessential mountain folk toy, along and a willow whistle.
S3 E7 · Furniture Carving
Watch as Roy’s guest Colonial Williamsburg’s Wallace Gusler talks about the techniques and tools needed for carved furniture.
S3 E8 · Whetstone Quarry
Take a trip with Roy through the geological history of whetstones, then head out on a hunt for rough materials to make your own whetstone for sharpening.
S3 E9 · The Gunsmith
Spend time with Roy and Gunsmith Gary Brumfield of Colonial Williamsburg as they discuss the steps to making a handcrafted 18th-century-style rifle.
S3 E10 · Wood for the Weaver
Discover details about some of the traditional wooden implements used by weavers, including spinning wheels, clock reels and niddy noddys; and watch as Roy makes a swift and a tape loom.
S3 E11 · The Luthier
Join Roy in learning the techniques and processes used to create a violin in the 18th century.
S3 E12 · Inner Woodworking
Observe as Roy looks at the mechanics of wood and how a trees’ growth affects how you work wood once you have it in your shop.
S3 E13 · The Basket Makers
Watch as Roy Black and Robert Watson show Roy how to make round-bottom and flat-bottom white oak baskets, starting from a log and using only hand tools.
Season 4
13 episodes
S4 E1 · The Dominy Shop
Roy takes us on a tour the Dominy Shop at Winterthur Museum. The shop holds the tools and shop items used by three generations of craftsman from 1750-1850.
S4 E2 · A Spring Pole Lathe
Roy walks us through the steps to create a simple, but accurate and functional spring pole lathe.
S4 E3 · Ball & Claw Feet
Roy welcomes Wallace Gusler from Colonial Williamsburg, and he shows the process to create a cabriole leg with a ball and claw foot.
S4 E4 · The Wainscot Chair
Roy works with his daughter, Rachel, to create a child-size, 17th-century chair found in a book by Wallace Nutting.
S4 E5 · Tool Boxes & Chests
Roy explores the contents of a recently purchased tool chest, trying to determine something of the original owner. He then shows how to recreate the chest itself.
S4 E6 · Chip Carving
Mack Headley from Colonial Williamsburg visits the shop and demonstrates the chip carving techniques used to decorate furniture.
S4 E7 · Good Fences
Roy looks at the details of early-American fences, including lightweight and portable fences used for sheep herding, garden fences and more substantial post and rail “fences” used in forts built around 1620.
S4 E8 · Kitchen Gifts
Roy shows you how to make some always-gift-appropriate and useful utensils for the kitchen including a rolling pin, heavy spoon, a collapsible drinking cup and more.
S4 E9 · Raising The Shop
Roy pitches in with the raising of the frame-and-timber structure for Anderson’s Forge at Colonial Williamsburg.
S4 E10 · Building A Boat
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S4 E11 · Rittenshouse Hygrometer
After discussing how humidity affects different wood species, Roy makes a clever and simple late 18th-century hygrometer to measure the humidity in the shop.
S4 E12 · Corner Cupboard
Roy recreates a classic pine corner cupboard.
S4 E13 · Highchair
To celebrate his new nephew, Roy builds an 18th century baby’s high chair with rush seating.
Season 5
13 episodes
S5 E1 · Rustic Rockers
Roy starts off the “Making Things From Nature” season by giving us some history of rustic furniture and walks through the steps necessary to make a Rustic Rocker.
S5 E2 · Bark Bottoms
To finish up the Rustic Rocker, Roy takes us into the woods to gather hickory bark, and then heads into the shop to create the woven bark seat for the rocker.
S5 E3 · Baby Cradle
Roy takes us into the shop to finish up a pilgrim-style oak cradle that he started, but never finished, reviewing the “tricky” parts necessary to create the whole project.
S5 E4 · Chris' Workshop
We visit with a 14-year-old traditional woodworker who sells his wares (walking sticks, toys and more), to make more money to buy tools he can’t make for himself.
S5 E5 · Iron Machine, Foot Power
A collector of cast-iron, foot-powered woodworking lathes and fret saws visits with Roy and they try out a number of the machines.
S5 E6 · Hutch Table I
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S5 E7 · Hutch Table II
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S5 E8 · Iron Bloomery
Roy visits with David Harvey, a Blacksmith at Colonial Williamsburg, and learns how to turn bog ore into a woodworking chisel.
S5 E9 · Berry Buckets, Sussex Trugs and Bark Sheaths
Roy shows how to create three projects that are created directly from trees and bark, with very little refinement.
S5 E10 · Wheelwright
We head back to Colonial Williamsburg where Roy visits with master wheelwright Dan Stebbins to discover the mysteries and realities of making wheels for early American wagons and carts.
S5 E11 · Music Mill
Roy makes a six-note music mill from wine bottles that is powered by hand crank (but can also be powered by a water wheel).
S5 E12 · Secrets From the Cabinet Shop
Roy travels back to visit with master cabinetmaker Mack Headley at the Anthony Hay shop at Colonial Williamsburg. He shares some of the secrets that were standard fare for 18th century American woodworking.
S5 E13 · A Glass Act
Sash joinery, or making windows, is the ultimate test of organizational skills, and Roy takes us through the many steps and details that must align to make a good window.
Season 6
13 episodes
S6 E1 · Turning of the Screw
Traditional woodworking required making much of your own tools and machinery, and the wooden screw is a major component in those. Roy looks at the making of wooden screws for use in the shop.
S6 E2 · That Old Spoon Carver
Roy visits with expert spoon carver Roger Sandstrom to talk technique, wood selection and more about carving spoons and treenware.
S6 E3 · Don't Crush That Bookstand, Hand Me the Pliers
Roy tackles creating a classic Wooden Pliers whittled from a single piece of wood, and then expands the concept to a folding bookstand using similar joinery.
S6 E4 · Folding Lathe
Roy shows how to build an 18th Century French lathe designed to fold up and store in the corner.
S6 E5 · Jacobian Stool
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S6 E6 · Turning and Carving
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S6 E7 · Things They'd Never Make for Themselves
We spend some quality time with Roy making small projects from scrap wood, including wooden ties, a pop gun, ado-nothing machine and a flying top.
S6 E8 · Anderson's Forge
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S6 E9 · Botetourt Chair
Roy takes a look at 18th Century woodworking details found in furniture from the Colonial Williamsburg cabinet shop.
S6 E10 · Shaker Lap Desk
Build one of the classic 18th Century projects with Roy; a Shaker lap desk.
S6 E11 · Rachel's Wagon
Roy walks through the steps required to build a wooden wagon for his daughters – but manages to have some fun himself.
S6 E12 · Toolmaker's Art
Roy visits with Peter Ross at the Anderson Forge to look at 18th Century tool making, in particular, a gentlemen’s hatchet.
S6 E13 · House Framing Doggie Style
Only the best for Roy’s pooch, Grit: a brick and Tudor framed doghouse is this episode’s project.
Season 7
13 episodes
S7 E1 · Noveltails
Roy takes a look at the design and benefits of many traditional dovetails used in woodworking, then goes even further to look at some more unusual dovetails.
S7 E2 · Longer and Stronger
When you need a longer board (or rafter), then a traditional scarf joint may be the answer. Roy discusses the history, value and creation of this important joint.
S7 E3 · Country Comfort
Roy shows us the steps to create the perfect outdoor chair — the Adirondack.
S7 E4 · Shaker Boxes
After a look at a number foot-powered woodworking machines, Roy and his guest show how to use a few of the machines to make traditional Shaker oval boxes.
S7 E5 · Bookcaseology
This episode is Roy’s version of waste-not, want not. He shows how to build a coffin-shaped bookcase so that the materials involved aren’t wasted, but used during life — and after.
S7 E6 · Woodwork, Needlework
Blending two traditional crafts, Roy builds an adjustable needlework stand or French design.
S7 E7 · Whirligigs
Whirligig expert Andy Lundy stops by the shop to talk about the history, design and construction details of a variety of whirligigs.
S7 E8 · Felling and Hauling
Traditional woodworking starts with the trees. Roy shares the traditional steps necessary to fell a tree and get the wood into the shop.
S7 E9 · Bramble Work
Roy gives us a look at rustic Bramble Work furniture. He then creates a small table in this style, working with twigs fastened in geometric patterns.
S7 E10 · Farmwood
Roy works through the varied historical uses of lumber. For use in construction, furniture, heating on your own farm, and for sharing with others. No part of the tree is wasted.
S7 E11 · Old South Homestead
On a trip back to the Underhill homestead, Roy takes us on visit of some of the construction details used in building the 1850’s house and outbuildings.
S7 E12 · Gameboards
Roy shows us how to make a couple of classic board games: Fox and Geese; and a checkers (or chess) board.
S7 E13 · Woodcut Printing
We travel to the Book Binders Shop at Colonial Williamsburg to learn the history and reality of woodcutting for use in printing.
Season 8
13 episodes
S8 E1 · Jefferson's Ladder
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S8 E2 · Boxwood Recorder
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S8 E3 · Beginning the Four Harness Loom
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S8 E4 · Finishing the Four Harness Loom
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S8 E5 · Rosebud
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S8 E6 · Workbenches for Everyone
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S8 E7 · Folk Toys for Little Folks
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S8 E8 · Making the Appalachian Dulcimer
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S8 E9 · Folding Folk Chairs
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S8 E10 · English Woodcraft
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S8 E11 · African Legacy
Roy looks at a balaphone (or marimba), kalimba (or thumb piano), a banjo and couple of African drums.
S8 E12 · Turning the Tables at the Tavern
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S8 E13 · Tankard From the Mary Rose
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Season 9
13 episodes
S9 E1 · Making a Butterfly Table
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S9 E2 · Dovetailing Drawers
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S9 E3 · Making the Dropleaf Rule Joint
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S9 E4 · Dancing Toys
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S9 E5 · Make Gypsy Willow Chairs
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S9 E6 · Tinsmithing for Fun and Profit
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S9 E7 · Boxes Without Topses
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S9 E8 · Order in the Court
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S9 E9 · Bricks Without Straw
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S9 E10 · Log Cabin Building
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S9 E11 · Log Cabin Building
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S9 E12 · Log Cabin Building
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S9 E13 · Marquetry: Painting With Wood
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Season 10
13 episodes
S10 E1 · Make This Rocking Horse!
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S10 E2 · Beat Your Ash Basketry
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S10 E3 · Make a Revolving Bookcase
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S10 E4 · Timber Building in Franconia
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S10 E5 · Secrets of German Woodcraft
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S10 E6 · Make a Garden Gate
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S10 E7 · Hooks, Crooks and Walking Sticks
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S10 E8 · Make a Music Mill From Bali
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S10 E9 · Dovetailing in the Tool Chest
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S10 E10 · As the Wood Turns
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S10 E11 · Boat to Build With the Kids
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S10 E12 · Rake's Progress
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S10 E13 · Making Wooden Shoes
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Season 11
13 episodes
S11 E1 · Make a Chair
(Part 1) — Roy starts a classic post-and-rung rocking chair using traditional greenwood techniques.
S11 E2 · Rollin' on the Rocker
(Part 2) — Work on the rocker continues; shaping the tenons, boring the mortises and creating the splats.
S11 E3 · Splittin' and Sittin'
(Part 3) — Work on the rocker is completed with the creation of the rockers and adding a hickory bark seat.
S11 E4 · Hewing a Dough Bowl
Roy creates a traditional dough bowl from tulip poplar.
S11 E5 · Wood-Turning Tricks
Eleanor Underhill joins Dad in the shop to turn a painted candle stand.
S11 E6 · Archer's Bow
Roy welcomes a bowyer and a fletcher to the shop to make a woodland Indian’s bow and river cane arrows.
S11 E7 · Four-Poster Bed
This may not be the four-poster bed you’re thinking of, as Roy builds a rustic version from rough, red cedar logs
S11 E8 · Blacksmith of Williamsburg
Roy visits Colonial Williamsburg to watch the creation of a set of hardware for window shutters.
S11 E9 · Williamsburg Woodcraft
Continuing the Williamsburg theme, Roy visits the woodworker’s shop to watch frame-and-panel shutters made
S11 E10 · Woodworker's Grab Bag
Daughter Rachel joins Roy in the shop to make a marble track toy and Kick-Me machine.
S11 E11 · Thomas Jefferson, Woodworker
Roy visits Monticello to look at some of the architectural creations and innovations of the former President..
S11 E12 · Dovetailed Bookcases
Roy recreates stacking “book box” shelves built to Thomas Jefferson’s specifications, and still on display at Monticello.
S11 E13 · Japanese Woodcrafter
Toshio Odate visits the shop to discuss and demonstrate Japanese woodworking tools, techniques and joinery.
Season 12
13 episodes
S12 E1 · Bentwood Boxes of the Northwest Coast
Roy visits Gregg Blomberg and explores woodworking traditions of the Pacific Northwest.
S12 E2 · A Civil War Quilting Frame
Roy is joined by his wife, Jane, to build a traditional quilting frame.
S12 E3 · African Chair From the Ivory Coast
Roy and his friend Robert Watson make a “man’s chair” using tools from the Ivory Coast of Africa.
S12 E4 · Hispanic Furniture-Making
Roy learns about northern New Mexico woodworking on the Santa Fe Trail.
S12 E5 · Colonial Tape Loom
Roy begins making a tiny tape loom, used for making decorative fabric.
S12 E6 · Dovetailing a Loom Box
Roy finishes the tape loom by making a beautiful box for it with dovetails and turned columns.
S12 E7 · A Colonial Standing Desk
Roy makes a standing desk using mortise-and-tenon and tongue-and-groove joints.
S12 E8 · Banding Together
Instrument maker Marcus Hanson makes inlay banding with Roy at the Anthony Hay Cabinet Shop.
S12 E9 · The Art of Finishing
Roy returns to the Anthony Hay Cabinet Shop to learn finishing.
S12 E10 · Fifteen Tools From a Dead Man's Chest
Roy restores the tools found in an antique chest.
S12 E11 · A Pilgrim Chest of Oak
Roy makes a Spanish pilgrim’s chest from New Mexico.
S12 E12 · Woodcarvers of the Sacred
Returning to New Mexico once again, Roy explores religious carving and woodworking in the mountains north of Santa Fe.
S12 E13 · Moravian Chair
Roy makes a Moravian chair that’s reinforced with dovetailed battens, which make this small piece extraordinarily strong.
Season 13
13 episodes
S13 E1 · English Walnut Music Stand
Build a beautiful music stand that adjusts for height and angle to best suit the musician.
S13 E2 · Fair And Square
Roy works through the steps to turn a round log into a square timber, and then shows how to bore a square hole.
S13 E3 · Fireplace Bellows
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S13 E4 · Hickory Pitchfork
Through shaving, steaming and bending, Roy creates a pitchfork from a green hickory limb.
S13 E5 · Continental Army Canteen
Learn to build a wooden canteen using stave construction.
S13 E6 · Make A Windsor Chair (Part 1)
In this three-episode project Roy builds a variation of a swiveling Windsor chair allegedly used by Thomas Jefferson during the writing of the Declaration of Independence.
S13 E7 · Make A Windsor Chair (Part 2)
In this three-episode project Roy builds a variation of a swiveling Windsor chair allegedly used by Thomas Jefferson during the writing of the Declaration of Independence.
S13 E8 · Make A Windsor Chair (Part 3)
In this three-episode project Roy builds a variation of a swiveling Windsor chair allegedly used by Thomas Jefferson during the writing of the Declaration of Independence.
S13 E9 · The Geddy Foundry of Williamsburg
Roy visits the foundry at Williamsburg to view the processes of pouring and finishing brass and silver for hardware and household items.
S13 E10 · Crazy Wooden Things for Kids to Make
Roy uses the theme of string-powered toys to show us how to make a spinning top, pump drill and a simplified version of the mechanism for a flying ball clock.
S13 E11 · Spiral Turning and Xylophone Tones
Learn the basics of two simple and fun projects: carving a spiral and building a tongue drum.
S13 E12 · Norwegian Wood
Roy visits Lillehammer, Norway looking at traditional Norwegian folk architecture and building techniques.
S13 E13 · Timber Building in the Land of the Midnight Sun
Still enjoying his trip to Norway, Roy visits a Viking ship museum and the Norwegian Folk Museum.
Season 14
13 episodes
S14 E1 · Woodworkers of the Red Dragon
Roy visits a recreated Celtic village in Wales, looking at Welsh woodworking including building construction, clog making and traditional carved Welsh love spoons.
S14 E2 · The Carpenter's Tool Box
Learn to build Roy’s iconic carpenter’s tool tote.
S14 E3 · Ancient Woodcraft of Ireland
Roy looks at Irish woodworking, including houses, harps, caravans and traditional ship-building techniques.
S14 E4 · A Sailor's Sea Chest
Learn to build a sailor’s sea chest with beveled through dovetails.
S14 E5 · Oak High Stool with a Hickory Bark Seat
Roy builds a stool starting with splitting and riving the green wood and ending with a woven-bark seat.
S14 E6 · Standing Embroidery Shop
Learn the steps to build a standing embroidery hoop large enough to handle embroidery on a quilt.
S14 E7 · The Timber-Frame House
Roy builds a scaled model of a Welsh cruck-frame barn, teaching the woodworking principals of timber framing.
S14 E8 · Wooden Lock and Key
Create a clever wood lock-and-key door set in the shop with Roy.
S14 E9 · Shaker Sewing Stand
Roy builds a traditional single-drawer Shaker sewing stand.
S14 E10 · Panel-Frame Construction
Learn the benefits and uses of frame-and-panel construction and the joinery steps to create a frame-and-panel door.
S14 E11 · Tools of the Eighteenth Century
Roy visits Colonial Williamsburg to view their exhibit of 1,500 eighteenth-century woodworking tools.
S14 E12 · The Williamsburg Blacksmiths
Watch a traditional woodworking tool –a drawknife –forged using historically accurate techniques.
S14 E13 · Blacksmiths Forge Ahead!
Learn the steps used to smith a Suffolk door latch used during colonial times.
Season 15
13 episodes
S15 E1 · Sharpening Tools
Roy builds a cedar box for an old sharpening stone while simultaneously teaching you the principles of sharpening and how to maintain the edges on the tools he uses. He also discusses the differences between various kinds of sharpening stones.
S15 E2 · Jefferson's Walking-Stick-Chair
Roy shows you how to make a walking stick-chair – a walking stick that folds out to become a small chair – much like the one used by Thomas Jefferson as he laid out plans for the University of Virginia.
S15 E3 · Chisels, Gouges and Mallets
Roy explores the wide, and sometimes strange, world of chisels. You’ll learn more about the tools you work with every day, and see how to use odd tools from history that you’ve likely never seen.
S15 E4 · Trestle Table
Roy makes a “sawbuck” trestle table – first delving into the interesting details, and then actually building it.
S15 E5 · Wooden Schoop Shovel & Spoons
Starting with a raw popular log, Roy splits, chops, cuts and carves a huge wooden shovel. Along the way you’ll go through nearly every aspect of woodworking, from rough to fine work.
S15 E6 · The Wooden Boat School
Roy travels to the Wooden Boat School in Brooklyn, Maine. See three distinct approaches to traditional boat building taught by three different instructors at the school
S15 E7 · The Marionette Makers
Roy arrives to find his shop taken over by a gaggle of marionette puppets! We’re joined by a pair of professional puppeteers that demonstrate how to build three types of puppets.
S15 E8 · Folding Workbench (Part 1)
Start learning to make a simple, yet sturdy, portable folding workbench.
S15 E9 · Folding Workbench (Part 2)
Finish learning how to put the workbench together, plus add all-important workholding features.
S15 E10 · Candle Stick Maker
Make a colonial threaded candle stand – the screw threads allow you to finely adjust the height and position of the candles.
S15 E11 · Adirondack Woodcraft
Visit the shores of Blue Mountain Lake in Adirondacks – see how to make an Adirondack guide boat and an Adirondack pack basket. Plus see the region’s signature furniture.
S15 E12 · Williamsburg Trunk Maker
Visit the harness shop of Jim Clatter in Colonial Williamsburg. Learn how to make a variety of leather items including a knife holster, pistol buckets and water buckets using 18th-century techniques.
S15 E13 · Climbing a Colonial Steeple
Roy climbs Bruton Parish Steeple in Williamsburg, Virginia, which has been holding a bell since the 1770s. See details of the original construction that tell us about how our ancestors lived, worked and thought.
Season 16
13 episodes
S16 E1 · Arts and Crafts Bookcase
Learn the steps to recreate a knock down bookcase originally built by the Roycrofters of East Aurora, New York.
S16 E2 · The Secret Dovetailed Box
Roy shows how to make a small box using a hidden dovetail joint that looks like a miter joint when complete.
S16 E3 · Wood Inlay
This episode starts by making a scratch stock tool necessary to create the grooves for the simple Holly inlay that follows.
S16 E4 · The Giant Chisels of Gaul
Roy visits local blacksmith shops and museums in the Alsace region of France in search of a giant chisel.
S16 E5 · Roll Top Cabinetry
Using a roll-top joinery process, Roy creates a small box with tambour doors.
S16 E6 · African Drum
Roy shows how to build an “African” drum that originally came from colonial America.
S16 E7 · Woodcraft of Alsace, France
Roy continues his visit to the Alsace region looking at woodworking and timber-building traditions.
S16 E8 · Comb-Back Windsor Chair, Part 1
In this two-part project, Roy shows the steps to create a classic comb-back Windsor chair.
S16 E9 · Comb-Back Windsor Chair, Part 2
In this two-part project, Roy shows the steps to create a classic comb-back Windsor chair.
S16 E10 · Sand-Powered Wooden Toys
Roy builds two simple toys: an interlocking-joint puzzle; and a sand-powered whirligig.
S16 E11 · Cutting the Knuckle-Hinge Joint
Learn to create the useful knuckle-hinge joint and, just for fun, whittle a wooden pair of pliers.
S16 E12 · Making Wooden Screws
Roy shows how to use a tap and screw box to create wooden screws for use in shop and furniture projects.
S16 E13 · The Pencil People
Learn the history of writing instruments and the evolution of the pencil, then look at a variety of pencil sharpeners from the past.
Season 17
13 episodes
S17 E1 · Make Your Shaving Horse
Roy shows you how to make a shaving horse from a single 2x10.
S17 E2 · Whittling Chains and Ball in Cage
Learn to whittle the mysterious, impossible-seeming wooden chain and ball-in-cage.
S17 E3 · Windsor High Chair
Roy make a child’s Windsor highchair showing classic Windsor techniques.
S17 E4 · Chinese Bamboo Chair
Make a chair out of grass ... Chinese bamboo, that is.
S17 E5 · Shaker Boxes
Make a No. 3 bentwood Shaker box – a deceptively simple design.
S17 E6 · Panel-Framed Bench
Roy’s panel-framed bench has a storage space built beneath the seat.
S17 E7 · Hanging Bookcase
Using thin wood and only tapered, sliding dovetails, Roy makes a sturdy hanging bookshelf.
S17 E8 · Window Sash Restoration
Roy takes a rotted window sash and repairs it with weather resistant resinous wood.
S17 E9 · Wooden Tea Machine
Make a cam-operated tea bag dunking machine that’ll save your arms from the repetitive motion of steeping tea.
S17 E10 · Nuts to You
How do you get to the center of a walnut? Build a turned, decorated nut cracker, as well as a simpler version from one piece of wood.
S17 E11 · Hancock Shaker Village
Roy takes a look at interior Shaker craftsmanship at the Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Mass.
S17 E12 · Shaker Side Table
Shaker furniture was made as if to be used for 1,000 years – see how that philosophy is worked into a small table.
S17 E13 · Woodworking in Upper Canada
During the time of Colonial America, many Loyalists headed north for Canada. Roy explores the life and economy they built there between harsh winters.
Season 18
13 episodes
S18 E1 · Dovetailing a Cedar Box
Learn simple box dovetails and create some shop characters that can hang out inside.
S18 E2 · Chip Carving
Dress up a small cedar box with a variety of chip carving designs.
S18 E3 · Chairs for Children
Roy makes a walnut stick chair and a pine slab chair perfectly sized for children.
S18 E4 · Bark and Rustic Work
Learn the details to add a hickory bark seat to a child’s chair.
S18 E5 · Debate of the Carpenter's Tools
Roy draws on poetry from the 1400s to explain what tools were used by wrights of the day.
S18 E6 · Treadle Lathe
Build an improved version of Roy’s 20-year-old treadle lathe design — and it starts with scrap lumber!
S18 E7 · White Oak Basket
A class on basket weaving? You bet! Weave a white oak basket with Roy.
S18 E8 · Wall Tool Chest
Roy uses a red oak tool chest to illustrate a discussion on hand planes.
S18 E9 · Woodworking Gizmos
Learn to convert a treadle lathe into a treadle jigsaw.
S18 E10 · Traditional Toys
Roy shows how to make a traditional Russian pecking-chicken toy.
S18 E11 · Old Salem
Roy visits Old Salem, North Carolina, founded in the 1760s by the Moravians. Their craft lives on in the recreated town.
S18 E12 · Swinging Cradle from Saxony
Learn to build a scaled-down German swinging cradle built with lapstrake construction.
S18 E13 · Jamestown Woodworkers, 1607
Learn about the history and the early settlers of the Jamestown, Virginia settlement.
Season 19
13 episodes
S19 E1 · Dovetailing Little Drawers
Underhill fits out a tool cabinet with shelves and dovetailed drawers
S19 E2 · The Yoke's on Me
Roy shows how to hew, carve and turn a shoulder yoke for carrying those heavy sap buckets.
S19 E3 · Making a Tuckaway Table
Roy shows how to make a little table from the 1600s with a unique folding design to save space in the old home place.
S19 E4 · Lyle Wheeler-Chair and Spinning Wheel Maker
In this episode of The Woodwrights Shop, special guest Lyle Wheeler shows viewers how to construct their own spinning wheel.
S19 E5 · David Calvo-Master Woodcarver
Master carver, David Calvo gives lessons in high relief carving. Instructed in the "Old World" tradition, Calvo guides viewers step by step as he creates a Fleur de Lis woodcarving.
S19 E6 · Building the Clipper Amistad
In this episode of the Woodright Shop, Roy Underhill visits a Connecticut shipyard, the Mystic Seaport. Here, Roy is taken on a tour of their current project, an exact replica of the famous Amistad clipper. He is given a brief history lesson of events leading up to the revolution aboard the notoriuos ship.
S19 E7 · Two Old Tool Pioneers
Roy visits two museums dedicated to two pioneers in preserving early technology--Henry Mercer and Eric Sloane.
S19 E8 · Frank Klausz-Master Cabinetmaker
Roy meets Hungarian-born cabinetmaker Frank Klausz, gentleman, craftsman and the fastest dovetailer on the planet.
S19 E9 · Sharpen Your Saw
Ultra close-up views give viewers the vision to sharpen their own saws.
S19 E10 · Wheeled Toys in Wood
Roy shows how to make turned wheels and the wooden ducks that roll on them
S19 E11 · Making the Ladder/Chair
Roy shows how to make a chair that can turn into a ladder.
S19 E12 · Wayne Barton-Master Chip Carver
The director of the Alpine School of Woodcarving shows advanced techniques in chip carving.
S19 E13 · Bucketmaking for Beginners
Roy shows how to make your own buckets.
Season 20
13 episodes
S20 E1 · Lap Desk
Watch and learn as Roy builds a reproduction of a simple walnut lap desk from the 19th century.
S20 E2 · Turned Corner Chair
Follow along as Roy shows you how to make a circa-1550 three-legged chair from the Flemish town of Rotterdam.
S20 E3 · Banjo Man George Wunderlich
Join Roy as he welcomes George Wunderlich and watch as he recreates a mid-1800s banjo.
S20 E4 · Writer's Bookcase
Watch as Roy builds a small oak bookcase, without glue or fasteners, for easier disassembly.
S20 E5 · Timber Corner
Pick up valuable tips for large-scale woodworking from Roy as he builds the corner of a timber-framed structure.
S20 E6 · Decoy Carvers
Observe Nick Supone and Neal Conolly as they stop by “The Woodwright’s Shop” and demonstrate the hewing and carving techniques used in creating a duck decoy
S20 E7 · Eastfield Village
Travel with Roy to Eastfield Village where he tours the museum’s restored historic buildings.
S20 E8 · Marquetry Master Patrick Edwards
Watch and learn as Roy visits with marquetry expert Patrick Edwards, and discusses the technique of “painting in wood.”
S20 E9 · In the Blacksmith's Shop
Join Roy for a visit with blacksmiths Peter Ross and Ken Schwarz where they demonstrate making bench chisels and more.
S20 E10 · Toys that Make Noise
Watch as Roy soldiers a tin-can bird whistle and makes a boxwood whistling top.
S20 E11 · Carving with the Cabinetmakers
Travel along with Roy to the Hay Cabinet Shop at Williamsburg for a furniture-carving talk with Master Mack Headley.
S20 E12 · Windsor Chair
Watch as Roy visits with Mike Dunbar of the Windsor Institute as he demonstrates the process for building a sack-back Windsor chair.
S20 E13 · 20th Anniversary Show
Join Roy as he looks back on 20 years of “The Woodwright’s Shop,” including highlights of guests, projects and memorable moments.
Season 21
13 episodes
S21 E1 · The Sawhorse
The tools we use can be beautiful too! Roy shows you how to build beautiful saw horse.
S21 E2 · 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.
S21 E3 · 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.
S21 E4 · Rounder Plane
An endless “pencil” sharpener to make round tapered handles for rake, boat spars- and more.
S21 E5 · Walnut Krumhorn
Get down, get musical! Produce a wonderful old wind instrument from the Elizabethan era- the Krumhorn!
S21 E6 · Timber Frame at the Folklife Festival
Join Roy at the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival and learn how to build a timber-frame barn.
S21 E7 · Impossible Joints
Make a mysterious puzzle mallet with a devilishly difficult dovetail that’s impossible to break!
S21 E8 · Fools for Tools
Roy shows you how to find and restore traditional tools needed to do old time traditional woodworking.
S21 E9 · Blacksmith Hinges
Join Roy at the Anderson Forge in Colonial Williamsburg and see how to make a traditional cross garnet hinge.
S21 E10 · Tiny Furniture
Learn how to make “big” furniture by starting with scaled down versions.
S21 E11 · Window from Williamsburg
Learn how to build a four-light Colonial window sash.
S21 E12 · Flintlock Gunsmith
Roy visits the Gunsmith Shop at Colonial Williamsburg to see how 18th century flintlock rifles were made.
S21 E13 · Colonial Tablemaker
Watch Roy “spin the wheel” at the Cabinet shop in Colonial Williamsburg as they produce 18th century furniture the old fashioned way.
Season 22
13 episodes
S22 E1 · Dovetail a Triangular Box
A three-sided box?! Well that’s different. Let Roy show you how to make a triumphant triangular box for your trifocals.
S22 E2 · Shaker Work Table
Clever, elegant and delicate beauty. Roy shows you how to produce a wonderful little Shaker work table.
S22 E3 · Craftsman Wall Cabinet
Roy's bringing craftsmanship back into our lives with an Arts & Crafts style cabinet.
S22 E4 · Scandinavian Milking Stool
Have fun building a folk milking stool. Think of the possibilities!
S22 E5 · Spill Plane & Book Stand
What the heck is a spill plane and how do you make a hinged book stand out of one piece of wood?
S22 E6 · Canadian Cradle
Roy shows you how to build a delightful rocking cradle for a newborn baby.
S22 E7 · Shutter Dogs from the Blacksmiths
Roy learns how to make shutter dog that is used to hold open shuttles when not to use.
S22 E8 · Rustic Furniture Maker Dan Mack
Meet Dan Mack, and see how he fabricates fascinating furniture out of naturally occurring materials.
S22 E9 · Williamsburg Wheelwright
Find out what it takes to make a wheel at the Palace Wheelwright Shop in Colonial Williamsburg.
S22 E10 · Limberjacks & Dancing Dolls
Roy shows you how to build wonderful articulated dancing toys called Limberjacks!
S22 E11 · Plymouth Plantation Woodworkers
See how the Pilgrims performed early American woodworking with just a few basic tools.
S22 E12 · The Colonial Carpenters
Learn the difference between a carpenter and a joiner. Hint: Think doors, windows & stairs.
S22 E13 · Craftsmen of Old Sturbridge Village
Visit Old Sturbridge Village, and meet the 1930s American—a farmer/craftsman.
Season 23
13 episodes
S23 E1 · The Boy Mechanic
Simple rainy day projects to "tink" around with - especially if you’re young at heart.
S23 E2 · Making the New Workbench: Part 1
Build a solid, sturdy workbench without any screws, nails or glue—that you can break down and take with you!
S23 E3 · Making the New Workbench: Part 2
Putting the finishing touches on your new workbench — the vices, the dogs, etc.
S23 E4 · Inlay with Steve Latta
Beautiful "compass inlay" on a Pennsylvania Spice Box done in the Pennsylvania/German tradition.
S23 E5 · Using Planes
Jack planes, combination planes, single iron joiners-Roy introduces you to the world of planes—not to mention snipe spills, skew mouth badgers, iron rabbits…
S23 E6 · Roundabout Chair
Learn how to build an odd corner chair called a Roundabout Chair—found in the offices of Dr. Sigmund Freud.
S23 E7 · Carving with Calvo
Need a sign? Let David Calvo show you how to carve one.
S23 E8 · Woodcraft of the Southern Highlands
Take a trip to beautiful downtown Paint Lick, KY and meet the old bodger himself, Don Weber. Learn how it was done in the old country.
S23 E9 · Woodcraft at Conner Prairie
Explore Conner Prairie, a living museum in the heart of Indiana. See how life was in the 1800's.
S23 E10 · The Turning Triangle Table
How do you turn a round table into a triangle. Let Roy show you how.
S23 E11 · Child's Rocker & Sliding Dovetail Stool
Let Roy show you how to make something useful out of scrap wood.
S23 E12 · The First American Woodworkers
Roy shows you how the very first Americans worked with wood — the Cherokees of Cherokee Nation.
S23 E13 · Paneled Cedar Chest
Watch Roy make a beautiful red cedar chest out of a tree knocked down by a hurricane.
Season 24
13 episodes
S24 E1 · Shaving Horse
Roy shows you how to make a shaving horse to help you make ax handles, wheel spokes and more.
S24 E2 · Tinsmithing with Anne Pederson
Not all good things are made out of wood. Anne Pederson shows Roy how to make things out of tin.
S24 E3 · Acadian Chair
The Acadians, forbearers of the Cajuns, brought a clever idea for a chair with them to Louisiana. Roy explains…
S24 E4 · White Cooperage with Norm Pederson
If you need a washtub, butter churn or water bucket – go see a “white cooper.”
S24 E5 · The Foot Power Lathe
Roy shows how to build a “spring pole lathe” – powered by foot.
S24 E6 · Wooden Thread Cutter
Need a big ol’ wooden screw for your cider press? Roy will show you how to make one.
S24 E7 · Woodworking at the North House Folk School
Take a class in kayak building, or build a long bow or a berry basket – all available at the North Folk School.
S24 E8 · Turned & Hewn Bowls & Spoons
Watch Roy transform a big log into a beautiful bowl. Hint: Just remove everything that’s not a bowl.
S24 E9 · Norwegian Pram & Snow Skis with Mark Hansen
Let it snow, then go skiing with Mark Hensen.
S24 E10 · One Piece Woodworking
Let Roy show you how to make useful & “useless” things out of one piece of wood – no kidding.
S24 E11 · Turning Chess Pieces
Roy shows you how to make a standard chess set or a not so standard chess set. Check, Matey!
S24 E12 · Chess Board & Box
Now that you have the chess pieces it’s time to make the chess board – and a box to put the pieces in.
S24 E13 · Inlaid Legs with Steve Latta
If you’re a “leg man” you gotta’ see this. Beautiful inlaid legs by Steve Latta.
Season 25
13 episodes
S25 E1 · Garden Bench
Build a small garden bench made of Cypress, and with a south-east Asian design.
S25 E2 · Wooden Puzzles
Avoid being frustrated by wooden puzzles by making a wooden knot, and three burr puzzles yourself.
S25 E3 · Jeff Headley, Cabinetmaker
Jeff Headley and Steve Hamilton visit the shop to show the construction techniques - and secrets - in a Winchester slant-top desk.
S25 E4 · The Melencolia Plane
Build the wooden plane pictured in Albrecht Durer's Melancolia
S25 E5 · Three Chests of Tools
Join Roy as he inventories woodworking tools he found in three tool chests.
S25 E6 · Woodturning Wisdom
Roy discusses the "perfection along the axis" found in woodturning
S25 E7 · Niddy Noddy & Weaver's Swift
Build two accessories valuable to the weaver.
S25 E8 · Cabinet Workbench
In a two-episode project, Roy builds a workbench with storage underneath from a design from Charles Hayward. In the first episode Roy builds the case, and then in the second finishes with the door and drawers.
S25 E9 · Workbench Doors & Drawers
In a two-episode project, Roy builds a workbench with storage underneath from a design from Charles Hayward. In the first episode Roy builds the case, and then in the second finishes with the door and drawers.
S25 E10 · Nora Hall: Woodcarver
Nora Hall visits the shop and shows the steps to carve a linenfold design.
S25 E11 · Country Chair Seats
David Russell visits and shows the intricacies of corn-shuck chair seats.
S25 E12 · The Museum of Appalachia
Roy discovers the history of Appalachian people at the museum in Clinton, TN.
S25 E13 · Restoring Jefferson's & Madison's Homes
Roy visits Monticello, Poplar Forest and Montpelier to follow the work of the two men who were responsible for most of the construction and woodworking.
Season 26
13 episodes
S26 E1 · A Ship in a Bottle
Raise the sails on a fleet in a flask with a master of the maritime miniature.
S26 E2 · Barley Twist Table, Pt.1
Build an oak, three-legged drop-leaf table from the time of the English civil war.
S26 E3 · Barley Twist Table, Pt.2
See how to turn and carve the double spiral of the barley twist leg from Cromwell’s time.
S26 E4 · Rustic Chairs With Skye Gregson
A second generation Adirondack furniture maker shows how to build chairs - rustic style
S26 E5 · Windsor Highchair With Curtis Buchanan, Pt 1
Learn how to bend and turn the stock for a wonderful Windsor highchair.
S26 E6 · Windsor Highchair With Curtis Buchanan, Pt 2
Frame and finish the Windsor highchair with the master chair-maker and storyteller.
S26 E7 · The Spirit of Woodcraft
Join in Thoreau’s search for moral lessons deep in the grain of the wood.
S26 E8 · Japanese Planes With John Reed Fox
A master craftsman shows how to sharpen, tune and use the Japanese plane.
S26 E9 · An English Garden Wheelbarrow, Pt 1
Oak, ash, elm and iron make the wheel of our barrow.
S26 E10 · An English Garden Wheelbarrow, Pt 2
Fitting the beveled elm panels into the oak wheelbarrow frame.
S26 E11 · Upholstering Your Seat
An expert shows how to make and restore webbed and stuffed chair seats.
S26 E12 · Old Woodworking Machines
Beautiful belt-driven 19th century machines still make window sashes in this New York shop
S26 E13 · The Dovetail Variations
Enjoy the journeyman joint that holds your drawers together in a variety of various forms
Season 27
13 episodes
S27 E1 · Peter & the Box
Master joiner Peter Follansbee of Plymouth Plantation carves a 17th century “bible box.”
S27 E2 · Ball & Socket Embroidery Stand Pt.1
Turn the base and shaft of an 18th century embroidery stand from Colonial Williamsburg.
S27 E3 · Ball & Socket Embroidery Stand Pt.2
Steam bent hoops and wooden adjusting screws complete the embroidery stand.
S27 E4 · Screw Box for Wooden Threads
Down and dirty metalworking forges the cutters to make wooden screws.
S27 E5 · French Work Bench, Pt.1
This workbench from Provence uses puzzling dovetails to join the legs to the bench top.
S27 E6 · French Work Bench, Pt.2
A tool chest, drawers and vises complete the workbench from Provence.
S27 E7 · Violin Maker Joe Thrift
Meet a modern luthier who works with tools and techniques unchanged for centuries.
S27 E8 · Candle Box With Secret Drawer
A sliding side reveals the hidden drawer on this missionary’s candle box.
S27 E9 · Parallelogram Plant Stand
Shelves that swing keep your plants in the sun on this Victorian contraption.
S27 E10 · German Woodcraft in America
Explore woodworking traditions of the Moravian settlers at Old Salem.
S27 E11 · Woodworking With Tillers International
Ox yokes & timber-framing number among the projects at a school using low-tech solutions.
S27 E12 · The Sordid Blacksmith
A Williamsburg blacksmith forges hinges following instructions in a 17th century manual.
S27 E13 · Henry Ford’s Museum Village
Partake in a celebration of American innovation at Greenfield Village.
Season 28
13 episodes
S28 E1 · The Governor's PoBoy
North Carolina Governor Mike Easley shows how to make a walnut side table.
S28 E2 · Joiner's Tool Chest Pt.1
Pack up your tools in this little dovetailed chest of pine.
S28 E3 · Joiner's Tool Chest Pt.2
Finish the chest with a mitered and paneled lid and a tongue and groove bottom.
S28 E4 · Thomas Jefferson's Bookstand
The sage of Monticello based his five-sided bookstand on designs he found in Paris.
S28 E5 · Classical Carving
First lessons in fine furniture carving from Mack Headley, master of the Colonial Williams
S28 E6 · File Philosophy
Master blacksmith Peter Ross shows the technique of cold joining and shaping colonial lock
S28 E7 · A Very Boring Program
From bits to braces, augers to angle borers & even boring a square hole,you know the drill
S28 E8 · Lumberjack Fan Carving
A Michigan master of folk carving whittles white cedar fans and birds of a wooden feather.
S28 E9 · Animated Wooden Toys
Imagination (and a few strings) makes these carved critters come to life.
S28 E10 · Hammer Veneer
Master musical instrument makers show classical techniques of hand cutting & wood veneer.
S28 E11 · Holly Wood Spectaculars
Create decorative veneer patterns using oval engines, sharp knives/patient perfectionism.
S28 E12 · A Viking Tool Chest
Welsh chair bodger Don Weber turns his hand to recreating a medieval tool kit.
S28 E13 · Woodworking in Berea
From chair building to instrument making to fine furniture collections.
Season 29
13 episodes
S29 E1 · Dovetailed Grease Pot
Walnut and boxwood make a little box with a secret lock to stash the woodworker’s pal.
S29 E2 · Secrets of the Whirlygig
Grinding forever as his wife cranks the stone, the whirlygig man turns our hand to mechanical toys.
S29 E3 · Shaker Rocker Frame
The Shakers were rocking in this classic chair of turned and steam-bent maple.
S29 E4 · Shaker Rocker Seat
Traditional Shaker worsted tape in checkerboard patterns makes a sweet seat.
S29 E5 · Mary May, Woodcarver
Swelling and shrinking, bending and breaking, the worker with wood must be wetness aware!
S29 E6 · Wood & Water
Fired by wood scraps, a giant steam engine drives ancient saws and window sash mills.
S29 E7 · Steam Power Sawmill
Fired by wood scraps, a giant steam engine drives ancient saws and window sash mills.
S29 E8 · Harvard Side Table
With artful arched feet and tenoned trestle top, this Shaker side table stands sturdy and fine.
S29 E9 · A Crutch in Time
Strong and resilient, wood has the lively lightness to support a leg when it’s lacking.
S29 E10 · Hancock Pedestal Table
With its turned top and dovetailed legs, this walnut tripod table is a classic of American design.
S29 E11 · Brian Boggs, Chairmaker
An Asheville artisan shows the secrets of the steam-bent green-wood chair
S29 E12 · Corner Cupboard, Part 1
Build the frame and panel door of this corner cupboard—an early American classic.
S29 E13 · Corner Cupboard, Part 2
Complete your corner cupboard with glass casement doors and molded crown.
Season 30
13 episodes
S30 E1 · Case of the Corner Cupboard
Long splined miters anyone? That’s how you join the coffin-like case of this 18th-century corner cupboard. See how to make the special jigs to hand plane this crucial joint with precision and dignity.
S30 E2 · Making Marvelous Moldings
You can make any complex molding you want with simple hand planes—just take it one curve at a time. Bill Anderson and Roy show how to flute your pilasters and carve your cornice for this comely corner cupboard.
S30 E3 · Mind Over Miter
This butt joint of distinction joins everything from picture frames to crown moldings. Learn all the angles and see how to carefully cut corners as we master the miter box for fitting frames and fine furniture.
S30 E4 · The Till in the Tool Chest
We’ll delve into the drawers in search of the secret of an old tool chest. The quality of the tools shows that it belonged to a first class joiner back in the early 1800s, but the dovetail joints break all the rules.
S30 E5 · Continuous Arm Rocking Chair (1)
Chairmaker Elia Bizzarri joins us to make this elegant and comfortable rocking chair. We’ll turn the legs and frame the seat in part one of this American classic.
S30 E6 · Continuous Arm Rocking Chair (2)
We’ll finish our rocking chair as we steam and bend the continuous arm's one-piece back. With its compound bend, this challenging chair is truly an American design innovation.
S30 E7 · Who Wrote the Book of Sloyd
Sloyd, the late 19th-century Swedish system of learning woodworking was intended to develop skilled, industrious and morally upstanding citizens. We’ll give it a try, and hope it’s not too late for us!
S30 E8 · The Case for Books
So many books, so little space! Say goodbye to cinderblocks and sagging shelves as you see how to cut the essential dado and sliding joints to build this better bookcase.
S30 E9 · Sawing Secrets
Chris Schwarz, editor of Popular Woodworking Magazine, joins Roy to explore the three classes of English sawcuts. Chris reveals the devious French tenon cheat, and even shows us how to saw without a saw!
S30 E10 · The Tiny Tool Kit
How can you stretch a basic kit of tools to build impressive casework? Chris Schwarz, editor of Popular Woodworking Magazine, shows how with the toolkit of young Thomas, hero of the 1839 book The Joiner and Cabinet Maker.
S30 E11 · Thomas Day, Cabinetmaker
In the days of slavery, Thomas Day, a free black cabinetmaker in North Carolina, was one of the most respected artisans in the South. We’ll look beneath the veneer on his furniture and discover his intriguing architectural work.
S30 E12 · Oak Field Gate
Mortise and tenon joints frame this classic feature of the English countryside. It’s a rustic woodworking challenge as we balance both beauty and strength to make a gate that will keep swinging for decades.
S30 E13 · Field Gate Hinges
Hinges Master blacksmith Peter Ross turns his hammer to forging iron hinges for our oak field gate. We’ll see how to shape and weld wrought iron for straps and pintles to make our gate swing true.
Season 31
13 episodes
S31 E1 · The Roubo Bookstand
Walnut bookstand.
S31 E2 · As the Saw Turns
Bow saw.
S31 E3 · Hurray for Hickory!
Making wooden rakes and rounded reels from steam-bent stock.
S31 E4 · Painless Panel Doors
Making the stiles and rails of a classic raised panel door.
S31 E5 · Hand Plane Essentials With Chris Schwarz
Gleaming surfaces, tight joints and crisp moldings through perfect planing.
S31 E6 · English Layout Square With Chris Schwarz
A simple square with laps and bridles.
S31 E7 · Elizabethan Joint Stool With Peter Follansbee
Traditional joint stool.
S31 E8 · Carving Swedish Spoons With Peter Follansbee
Making spoons using an axe and traditional hook knife.
S31 E9 · Inlaid Lettering With Steve Latta
Making a name in holly wood by setting slender stringing into the slotted surface.
S31 E10 · Hammer Veneering With Steve Latta
Classic hammer veneering.
S31 E11 · Iron Work for Timber Work
Spike dogs and cant hooks for log holding and handling.
S31 E12 · Offset Turning
Turning ovals and offsets by measuring once and turning twice.
S31 E13 · Simple Sash
No summary.
Season 32
13 episodes
S32 E1 · Rise of the Machines!
Why do it by hand—when you can do it by foot? Roy Underhill gets caught up in up a bevy of century-old, foot-powered woodworking machines.
S32 E2 · The Eleven Grooved Box
Grooves and splines make a tidy oak box, but can we cut the joints just using hand tools? And do we want to?
S32 E3 · Table Joints Rule!
You can’t make a drop leaf table without the rule joint. So, what are the tools you need to cut it by hand? Bill Anderson drops by with the answer.
S32 E4 · The Anarchist’s Tool Chest
Chris Schwarz’s anarchist’s tool chest starts a back-to-basics revolution! Learn his classic system of simplicity to set your work life free.
S32 E5 · Two Screws for You!
Secrets of the mysterious two-screw vise revealed! Chris Schwarz joins Roy Underhill to rediscover this enigmatic wooden vise.
S32 E6 · Screw Cuttin’ Lathe
Make your own darn metal screws with this 1889 foot-powered lathe! Roy shows how to cut perfect threads, cones and tapers in iron and brass.
S32 E7 · The Troublesome Triangle Stool
The old triangular stool spells trouble for Peter Follansbee and Roy Underhill as they tackle a trio of terrible turned tenons!
S32 E8 · Wretched Ratchet Reading Rack
With foot-powered lathes, Peter Follansbee and Roy Underhill turn this adjustable bookstand from walnut and maple.
S32 E9 · Raising Panel-Zona
Make raised panels for your doors with care and flair! Roy Underhill uses both complex planes and tricks with basic tools to raise the classic panel.
S32 E10 · Carving the Camellia
Woodcarver Mary May makes basswood flowers bloom. Get in the groove of high-relief carving with sharp gouges and good-grained wood!
S32 E11 · Forging the Hold Fast
Haul out the anvil and forge this essential bench tool! Blacksmith Peter Ross shows how to forge historical versions of this powerful gripper.
S32 E12 · The Enfield Cupboard
Make this Shaker cabinet and dwell in utopian serenity! Simple to construct and elegant in design, this cupboard is a standby in any room or shop.
S32 E13 · The Shaker Bend
What made these American communal craftsmen tick? From their furniture to their bentwood boxes, the Shakers may be our most modern artisans.
Season 33
13 episodes
S33 E1 · Rachell's Standing Desk PT. 1
Give your butt joints a break with the tenons and dovetails that connect this pine standing desk from Pennsylvania.
S33 E2 · Rachell's Standing Desk PT. 2
The miter-clamped breadboard end makes a broad desktop that always stays flat.
S33 E3 · The Venerable Bead
Roy Underhill demonstrates how to cut bead moldings with hand planes for corners that look sharp and last longer.
S33 E4 · Carving Away With Mary May
Classical carver Mary May provides a lesson on woodcarving and a proper rebuke for edge tool abuse!
S33 E5 · Swinging Saw Vise
Roy duplicates the beveled bridle joints and chamfered chops of an old saw-sharpening vise.
S33 E6 · Sharpen That Saw!
Using giant model rip and crosscut saws, Roy demonstrates how to correctly sharpen handsaws.
S33 E7 · Combination Planes
Roy attempts to replace a chest of molding planes with one complex metal contraption
S33 E8 · Joined 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.
S33 E9 · Paneled 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.
S33 E10 · Early Iron With Peter Ross
Master blacksmith Peter Ross shows how to forge iron hinges and locks from the earliest days of the American experience.
S33 E11 · Try 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.
S33 E12 · Dutch Tool Chest with Christopher Schwarz
Learn to make the simple and useful Dutch tool chest with its characteristic 30-degree slanted lid.
S33 E13 · Big Ash Mallet!
With ash head and hickory handle, Roy shows how to make a proper joiner's mallet for the ages.
Season 34
13 episodes
S34 E1 · Taming the Timber Bench
Your legs will stay tight in this classic German carpenter’s bench built with stopped sliding dovetails.
S34 E2 · Pinch Rods and Squeezy Blocks
This pair of sliding diagonal rods with copper collars will help you get your chests square and your dovetails tight.
S34 E3 · Tapered Tail Tripod Table 1
Walnut legs riven from the log begin this table inspired by the Dominy workshops.
S34 E4 · Tapered Tail Tripod Table 2
A walnut burl top and tricky turning makes tapered dovetails for a three-legged table.
S34 E5 · Viceless Devices
From the holdfast to the birdsmouth, Roy explores wondrous ways to grip the grain and rediscovers and old trick from a rare book.
S34 E6 · Daring Diagonal Dovetails
Learn to cut the rising diagonal dovetail for corners that are stronger and striking, no matter how you look at them.
S34 E7 · Shop Class Tabouret
The old shop-class plant stand joined with half-laps and dowels teaches us to pay attention to the grain, not just the machine.
S34 E8 · Campaign Furniture
Christopher Schwarz shows the ins and outs of Campaign furniture made for travel to the far-flung reaches of the Empire.
S34 E9 · Fitting Brass
Chris Schwarz shows how to fit brass corners and hardware flush with the surfaces of Campaign furniture.
S34 E10 · The Crotch and the Horse
An old shaving horse from the Virginia mountains demonstrates that the natural shapes in timber make the strongest wooden construction.
S34 E11 · Dovetail Saw
Tom Calisto joins Roy to make a brass-backed hand saw perfect for the finest dovetails or the toughest tenons.
S34 E12 · Tempered Steel
Blacksmith Peter Ross shows how to forge, weld, harden and temper tool steel for cutting edges that stay sharp longer.
S34 E13 · Woodwright! - The Musical
The Underhill Rose band joins Roy in the shop for a musical misadventure in the ways of the Woodwright.
Season 35
13 episodes
S35 E1 · Rocky Bentwood Cradle I
Part 1 of 2. A rocking cradle modeled after one spotted in the Grand Bazaar of Istanbul is crafted in the Season 35 premiere.
S35 E2 · Rocky Bentwood Cradle II
Conclusion. A rocking cradle is completed with pine sides and rockers. A lathe-turned carrier bar joins it all together.
S35 E3 · Stamp Out Cookie Carving!
Woodcarver Mary May joins Roy to carve springerle cookie molds for every occasion.
S35 E4 · Double Drawer Shaker Table
How to cut the mortise and tenon joints for the legs and frame of a Shaker table.
S35 E5 · Groovers and Shakers
The dovetailed and grooved construction techniques found inside Shaker drawers are detailed.
S35 E6 · Turning Shaker Knobs
Cherry knobs for Shaker furniture are turned on a foot-powered lathe. Also: finishing a joined table top.
S35 E7 · Cross Cut Conundrum
How to use a cross-cutting wood saw.
S35 E8 · Bowl Carving with Peter Follansbee
Master craftsman Peter Follansbee joins Roy to hew huge bowls from poplar & sycamore wood.
S35 E9 · Hollows & Rounds
These most basic molding planes also prove the most versatile as we look at making and using wooden hollows and rounds.
S35 E10 · Welsh Stick Chair I
Roy makes this country cousin of the Windsor chair using the same tools and techniques.
S35 E11 · Welsh Stick Chair II
The challenge of the Welsh stick chair continues as Roy shapes spindles and backs for a proper sit-down.
S35 E12 · Tool Smithing with Peter Ross
Dividers, calipers and turning tools take shape as master blacksmith Peter Ross shows Roy the art of tool-making.
S35 E13 · Plain Pine Box
Roy looks into the simplest form of furniture, the plain pine box.
Season 36
13 episodes
S36 E1 · Van Gogh's Chair
The Season 36 premiere shows how to make a chair similar to the one portrayed in Vincent Van Gogh's masterpiece.
S36 E2 · Sliding Lid Boxes
Roy shows how to create easy-to-make wooden gift boxes with mitered corners and lids that slide in grooves.
S36 E3 · Carved Oak Desk Box
Master of Pilgrim-century furniture Peter Follansbee joins Roy to make a slope-lidded, carved box from carved white and red oak.
S36 E4 · Waving Arm Whirligigs
Figures from history including Benjamin Franklin and Muhammad Ali inspire Roy’s new line of waving arm wooden whirlygigs.
S36 E5 · Wedged Tusk Tenon
Roy and workbench builder Will Myers test out the strength of the classic wedged mortise and tenon joint for take-apart furniture.
S36 E6 · Swedish Shrink Box
Woodworker Peter Follansbee shows Roy Underhill how to make Swedish shrink boxes from hollowed wood with inserted bottoms.
S36 E7 · Saw Like a Butterfly!
The great poet-athlete Muhammad Ali inspires the best lessons in woodworking – Saw Like a Butterfly, Plane Like a Bee!
S36 E8 · Firewood Carrier
Chair-maker Elia Bizzarri shows Roy how to make a split oak firewood carrier inspired by the classic wooden harvest rake.
S36 E9 · Double Casement Window
Roy Underhill makes a double, swinging casement window using wooden planes and premium pine.
S36 E10 · Tool Chest Hinges & Latch
Master blacksmith Peter Ross shows how to forge hinges and latches for a replica tool chest.
S36 E11 · Tool Chest From Bristol
Roy shows how to dovetail a stout, sloped top tool chest that came from Bristol, England in 1900.
S36 E12 · Roman Work Bench
Christopher Schwarz joins Roy to unlock the secrets of the ancient Roman woodworker’s bench.
S36 E13 · Staked Furniture
How a plank with inserted legs can become a chair, table or bench.
Season 37
13 episodes
S37 E1 · Who Wrote the Book of Sloyd?!
Sloyd, the late 19th century Swedish system of learning woodworking was intended to develop skilled, industrious, and morally upstanding citizens. We’ll give it a try, and hope it’s not too late for us!
S37 E2 · Holly Wood Spectaculars!
Steve Latta shows how to create decorative veneer patterns using oval engines, sharp knives, and patient perfectionism.
S37 E3 · The Roubo Bookstand!
One piece of walnut makes a beautiful bookstand as we follow the formula of an old French master.
S37 E4 · Rise of the Machines
Why do it by hand – when you can do it by foot? Roy Underhill gets caught up in up a bevy of century-old, foot-powered woodworking machines.
S37 E5 · Hand Plane Essentials With Chris Schwarz
Learn how to make gleaming surfaces, tight joints and crisp moldings through perfect planing.
S37 E6 · Big Ash Mallet!
Make a proper joiner’s mallet and you’ll never be lonely again! With ash head and hickory handle, Roy shows how to make a mallet for the ages.
S37 E7 · Carving Away with Mary May
Classical carver Mary May gives Roy his first lessons on woodcarving – along with a proper rebuke for edge tool abuse!
S37 E8 · Dovetailed Grease Pot
Walnut and boxwood make a little box with a secret lock to stash the woodworker’s pal.
S37 E9 · Lumberjack Fan Carving
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S37 E10 · Forging the Hold Fast
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S37 E11 · Brian Boggs, Chairmaker
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S37 E12 · Combination Planes 37th Season
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S37 E13 · The Venerable Bead
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