The Sawhorse

E1

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

Welsh Chair Bodger Don Weber

E2

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

E3

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

E4

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

Walnut Krumhorn

E5

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

Timber Frame at the Folklife Festival

E6

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

Impossible Joints

E7

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

Fools for Tools

E8

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

Blacksmith Hinges

E9

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

Tiny Furniture

E10

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

Window from Williamsburg

E11

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

Flintlock Gunsmith

E12

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

Colonial Tablemaker

E13

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