The Woodwright's Shop - Season 18
1 - Dovetailing a Cedar Box
Air Date: October 3, 1998
Learn simple box dovetails and create some shop characters that can hang out inside.
2 - Chip Carving
Air Date: October 10, 1998
Dress up a small cedar box with a variety of chip carving designs.
3 - Chairs for Children
Air Date: October 17, 1998
Roy makes a walnut stick chair and a pine slab chair perfectly sized for children.
4 - Bark and Rustic Work
Air Date: October 24, 1998
Learn the details to add a hickory bark seat to a child’s chair.
5 - Debate of the Carpenter's Tools
Air Date: October 31, 1998
Roy draws on poetry from the 1400s to explain what tools were used by wrights of the day.
6 - Treadle Lathe
Air Date: November 7, 1998
Build an improved version of Roy’s 20-year-old treadle lathe design — and it starts with scrap lumber!
7 - White Oak Basket
Air Date: November 14, 1998
A class on basket weaving? You bet! Weave a white oak basket with Roy.
8 - Wall Tool Chest
Air Date: November 21, 1998
Roy uses a red oak tool chest to illustrate a discussion on hand planes.
9 - Woodworking Gizmos
Air Date: November 28, 1998
Learn to convert a treadle lathe into a treadle jigsaw.
10 - Traditional Toys
Air Date: December 5, 1998
Roy shows how to make a traditional Russian pecking-chicken toy.
11 - Old Salem
Air Date: December 12, 1998
Roy visits Old Salem, North Carolina, founded in the 1760s by the Moravians. Their craft lives on in the recreated town.
12 - Swinging Cradle from Saxony
Air Date: December 19, 1998
Learn to build a scaled-down German swinging cradle built with lapstrake construction.
13 - Jamestown Woodworkers, 1607
Air Date: December 26, 1998
Learn about the history and the early settlers of the Jamestown, Virginia settlement.