Dovetailing a Cedar Box

E1

Learn simple box dovetails and create some shop characters that can hang out inside.

Chip Carving

E2

Dress up a small cedar box with a variety of chip carving designs.

Chairs for Children

E3

Roy makes a walnut stick chair and a pine slab chair perfectly sized for children.

Bark and Rustic Work

E4

Learn the details to add a hickory bark seat to a child’s chair.

Debate of the Carpenter's Tools

E5

Roy draws on poetry from the 1400s to explain what tools were used by wrights of the day.

Treadle Lathe

E6

Build an improved version of Roy’s 20-year-old treadle lathe design — and it starts with scrap lumber!

White Oak Basket

E7

A class on basket weaving? You bet! Weave a white oak basket with Roy.

Wall Tool Chest

E8

Roy uses a red oak tool chest to illustrate a discussion on hand planes.

Woodworking Gizmos

E9

Learn to convert a treadle lathe into a treadle jigsaw.

Traditional Toys

E10

Roy shows how to make a traditional Russian pecking-chicken toy.

Old Salem

E11

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

E12

Learn to build a scaled-down German swinging cradle built with lapstrake construction.

Jamestown Woodworkers, 1607

E13

Learn about the history and the early settlers of the Jamestown, Virginia settlement.