Episode 1
Dovetailing a Cedar Box
Oct 3, 1998
Learn simple box dovetails and create some shop characters that can hang out inside.
Episode 2
Chip Carving
Oct 10, 1998
Dress up a small cedar box with a variety of chip carving designs.
Episode 3
Chairs for Children
Oct 17, 1998
Roy makes a walnut stick chair and a pine slab chair perfectly sized for children.
Episode 4
Bark and Rustic Work
Oct 24, 1998
Learn the details to add a hickory bark seat to a child’s chair.
Episode 5
Debate of the Carpenter's Tools
Oct 31, 1998
Roy draws on poetry from the 1400s to explain what tools were used by wrights of the day.
Episode 6
Treadle Lathe
Nov 7, 1998
Build an improved version of Roy’s 20-year-old treadle lathe design — and it starts with scrap lumber!
Episode 7
White Oak Basket
Nov 14, 1998
A class on basket weaving? You bet! Weave a white oak basket with Roy.
Episode 8
Wall Tool Chest
Nov 21, 1998
Roy uses a red oak tool chest to illustrate a discussion on hand planes.
Episode 9
Woodworking Gizmos
Nov 28, 1998
Learn to convert a treadle lathe into a treadle jigsaw.
Episode 10
Traditional Toys
Dec 5, 1998
Roy shows how to make a traditional Russian pecking-chicken toy.
Episode 11
Old Salem
Dec 12, 1998
Roy visits Old Salem, North Carolina, founded in the 1760s by the Moravians. Their craft lives on in the recreated town.
Episode 12
Swinging Cradle from Saxony
Dec 19, 1998
Learn to build a scaled-down German swinging cradle built with lapstrake construction.
Episode 13
Jamestown Woodworkers, 1607
Dec 26, 1998
Learn about the history and the early settlers of the Jamestown, Virginia settlement.
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