Episodes List
Ep.1 Woodworkers of the Red Dragon
Air Date: 1994-10-01
Roy visits a recreated Celtic village in Wales, looking at Welsh woodworking including building construction, clog making and traditional carved Welsh love spoons.
Ep.2 The Carpenter's Tool Box
Air Date: 1994-10-08
Learn to build Roy’s iconic carpenter’s tool tote.
Ep.3 Ancient Woodcraft of Ireland
Air Date: 1994-10-15
Roy looks at Irish woodworking, including houses, harps, caravans and traditional ship-building techniques.
Ep.4 A Sailor's Sea Chest
Air Date: 1994-10-22
Learn to build a sailor’s sea chest with beveled through dovetails.
Ep.5 Oak High Stool with a Hickory Bark Seat
Air Date: 1994-10-29
Roy builds a stool starting with splitting and riving the green wood and ending with a woven-bark seat.
Ep.6 Standing Embroidery Shop
Air Date: 1994-11-05
Learn the steps to build a standing embroidery hoop large enough to handle embroidery on a quilt.
Ep.7 The Timber-Frame House
Air Date: 1994-11-12
Roy builds a scaled model of a Welsh cruck-frame barn, teaching the woodworking principals of timber framing.
Ep.8 Wooden Lock and Key
Air Date: 1994-11-19
Create a clever wood lock-and-key door set in the shop with Roy.
Ep.9 Shaker Sewing Stand
Air Date: 1994-11-26
Roy builds a traditional single-drawer Shaker sewing stand.
Ep.10 Panel-Frame Construction
Air Date: 1994-12-03
Learn the benefits and uses of frame-and-panel construction and the joinery steps to create a frame-and-panel door.
Ep.11 Tools of the Eighteenth Century
Air Date: 1994-12-10
Roy visits Colonial Williamsburg to view their exhibit of 1,500 eighteenth-century woodworking tools.
Ep.12 The Williamsburg Blacksmiths
Air Date: 1994-12-17
Watch a traditional woodworking tool –a drawknife –forged using historically accurate techniques.
Ep.13 Blacksmiths Forge Ahead!
Air Date: 1994-12-24
Learn the steps used to smith a Suffolk door latch used during colonial times.