Episode 1
Rachell's Standing Desk PT. 1
Sep 21, 2013
Give your butt joints a break with the tenons and dovetails that connect this pine standing desk from Pennsylvania.
Episode 2
Rachell's Standing Desk PT. 2
Sep 28, 2013
The miter-clamped breadboard end makes a broad desktop that always stays flat.
Episode 3
The Venerable Bead
Oct 5, 2013
Roy Underhill demonstrates how to cut bead moldings with hand planes for corners that look sharp and last longer.
Episode 4
Carving Away With Mary May
Oct 12, 2013
Classical carver Mary May provides a lesson on woodcarving and a proper rebuke for edge tool abuse!
Episode 5
Swinging Saw Vise
Oct 19, 2013
Roy duplicates the beveled bridle joints and chamfered chops of an old saw-sharpening vise.
Episode 6
Sharpen That Saw!
Oct 26, 2013
Using giant model rip and crosscut saws, Roy demonstrates how to correctly sharpen handsaws.
Episode 7
Combination Planes
Nov 2, 2013
Roy attempts to replace a chest of molding planes with one complex metal contraption
Episode 8
Joined Chest With Peter Follansbee
Nov 9, 2013
The master joiner of Plimoth Plantation shows how to frame a small, mortised, and tenoned chest in the old English style.
Episode 9
Paneled Chest With Peter Follansbee
Nov 16, 2013
A master joiner shows Roy how to make and fit the beveled panels and storage till into a framed chest from the Pilgrim era.
Episode 10
Early Iron With Peter Ross
Nov 23, 2013
Master blacksmith Peter Ross shows how to forge iron hinges and locks from the earliest days of the American experience.
Episode 11
Try Square with Christopher Schwarz
Nov 30, 2013
Chris Schwarz shows Roy how to measure up with an English try square based on the examples in the famous Benjamin Seaton tool chest.
Episode 12
Dutch Tool Chest with Christopher Schwarz
Dec 7, 2013
Learn to make the simple and useful Dutch tool chest with its characteristic 30-degree slanted lid.
Episode 13
Big Ash Mallet!
Dec 14, 2013
With ash head and hickory handle, Roy shows how to make a proper joiner's mallet for the ages.
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