Season 21

Season 21

2001-09-29
13 Episodes

Episodes

The Sawhorse

1. The Sawhorse

2001-09-29

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The tools we use can be beautiful too! Roy shows you how to build beautiful saw horse.

Welsh Chair Bodger Don Weber

2. Welsh Chair Bodger Don Weber

2001-10-06

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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

3. Toolbox from the 1940s

2001-10-13

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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

4. Rounder Plane

2001-10-20

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An endless “pencil” sharpener to make round tapered handles for rake, boat spars- and more.

Walnut Krumhorn

5. Walnut Krumhorn

2001-10-27

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Get down, get musical! Produce a wonderful old wind instrument from the Elizabethan era- the Krumhorn!

Timber Frame at the Folklife Festival

6. Timber Frame at the Folklife Festival

2001-11-03

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Join Roy at the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival and learn how to build a timber-frame barn.

Impossible Joints

7. Impossible Joints

2001-11-10

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Make a mysterious puzzle mallet with a devilishly difficult dovetail that’s impossible to break!

Fools for Tools

8. Fools for Tools

2001-11-17

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Roy shows you how to find and restore traditional tools needed to do old time traditional woodworking.

Blacksmith Hinges

9. Blacksmith Hinges

2001-11-24

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Join Roy at the Anderson Forge in Colonial Williamsburg and see how to make a traditional cross garnet hinge.

Tiny Furniture

10. Tiny Furniture

2001-12-01

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Learn how to make “big” furniture by starting with scaled down versions.

Window from Williamsburg

11. Window from Williamsburg

2001-12-08

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Learn how to build a four-light Colonial window sash.

Flintlock Gunsmith

12. Flintlock Gunsmith

2001-12-15

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Roy visits the Gunsmith Shop at Colonial Williamsburg to see how 18th century flintlock rifles were made.

Colonial Tablemaker

13. Colonial Tablemaker

2001-12-22

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Watch Roy “spin the wheel” at the Cabinet shop in Colonial Williamsburg as they produce 18th century furniture the old fashioned way.