Taming the Timber Bench

E1

Your legs will stay tight in this classic German carpenter’s bench built with stopped sliding dovetails.

Pinch Rods and Squeezy Blocks

E2

This pair of sliding diagonal rods with copper collars will help you get your chests square and your dovetails tight.

Tapered Tail Tripod Table 1

E3

Walnut legs riven from the log begin this table inspired by the Dominy workshops.

Tapered Tail Tripod Table 2

E4

A walnut burl top and tricky turning makes tapered dovetails for a three-legged table.

Viceless Devices

E5

From the holdfast to the birdsmouth, Roy explores wondrous ways to grip the grain and rediscovers and old trick from a rare book.

Daring Diagonal Dovetails

E6

Learn to cut the rising diagonal dovetail for corners that are stronger and striking, no matter how you look at them.

Shop Class Tabouret

E7

The old shop-class plant stand joined with half-laps and dowels teaches us to pay attention to the grain, not just the machine.

Campaign Furniture

E8

Christopher Schwarz shows the ins and outs of Campaign furniture made for travel to the far-flung reaches of the Empire.

Fitting Brass

E9

Chris Schwarz shows how to fit brass corners and hardware flush with the surfaces of Campaign furniture.

The Crotch and the Horse

E10

An old shaving horse from the Virginia mountains demonstrates that the natural shapes in timber make the strongest wooden construction.

Dovetail Saw

E11

Tom Calisto joins Roy to make a brass-backed hand saw perfect for the finest dovetails or the toughest tenons.

Tempered Steel

E12

Blacksmith Peter Ross shows how to forge, weld, harden and temper tool steel for cutting edges that stay sharp longer.

Woodwright! - The Musical

E13

The Underhill Rose band joins Roy in the shop for a musical misadventure in the ways of the Woodwright.