Episodes List
Ep.1 Dovetailing a Cedar Box
Air Date: 1998-10-03
Learn simple box dovetails and create some shop characters that can hang out inside.
Ep.2 Chip Carving
Air Date: 1998-10-10
Dress up a small cedar box with a variety of chip carving designs.
Ep.3 Chairs for Children
Air Date: 1998-10-17
Roy makes a walnut stick chair and a pine slab chair perfectly sized for children.
Ep.4 Bark and Rustic Work
Air Date: 1998-10-24
Learn the details to add a hickory bark seat to a child’s chair.
Ep.5 Debate of the Carpenter's Tools
Air Date: 1998-10-31
Roy draws on poetry from the 1400s to explain what tools were used by wrights of the day.
Ep.6 Treadle Lathe
Air Date: 1998-11-07
Build an improved version of Roy’s 20-year-old treadle lathe design — and it starts with scrap lumber!
Ep.7 White Oak Basket
Air Date: 1998-11-14
A class on basket weaving? You bet! Weave a white oak basket with Roy.
Ep.8 Wall Tool Chest
Air Date: 1998-11-21
Roy uses a red oak tool chest to illustrate a discussion on hand planes.
Ep.9 Woodworking Gizmos
Air Date: 1998-11-28
Learn to convert a treadle lathe into a treadle jigsaw.
Ep.10 Traditional Toys
Air Date: 1998-12-05
Roy shows how to make a traditional Russian pecking-chicken toy.
Ep.11 Old Salem
Air Date: 1998-12-12
Roy visits Old Salem, North Carolina, founded in the 1760s by the Moravians. Their craft lives on in the recreated town.
Ep.12 Swinging Cradle from Saxony
Air Date: 1998-12-19
Learn to build a scaled-down German swinging cradle built with lapstrake construction.
Ep.13 Jamestown Woodworkers, 1607
Air Date: 1998-12-26
Learn about the history and the early settlers of the Jamestown, Virginia settlement.