Episodes List
Ep.1 The Sawhorse
Air Date: 2001-09-29
The tools we use can be beautiful too! Roy shows you how to build beautiful saw horse.
Ep.2 Welsh Chair Bodger Don Weber
Air Date: 2001-10-06
Roy teams up with the old Welsh Bodger himself and together they demonstrate how to build a classic Welsh Stick Chair.
Ep.3 Toolbox from the 1940s
Air Date: 2001-10-13
You can learn how to build a timeless relic from past generations of fine woodworkers in this episode, a Joiner’s Tool Box.
Ep.4 Rounder Plane
Air Date: 2001-10-20
An endless “pencil” sharpener to make round tapered handles for rake, boat spars- and more.
Ep.5 Walnut Krumhorn
Air Date: 2001-10-27
Get down, get musical! Produce a wonderful old wind instrument from the Elizabethan era- the Krumhorn!
Ep.6 Timber Frame at the Folklife Festival
Air Date: 2001-11-03
Join Roy at the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival and learn how to build a timber-frame barn.
Ep.7 Impossible Joints
Air Date: 2001-11-10
Make a mysterious puzzle mallet with a devilishly difficult dovetail that’s impossible to break!
Ep.8 Fools for Tools
Air Date: 2001-11-17
Roy shows you how to find and restore traditional tools needed to do old time traditional woodworking.
Ep.9 Blacksmith Hinges
Air Date: 2001-11-24
Join Roy at the Anderson Forge in Colonial Williamsburg and see how to make a traditional cross garnet hinge.
Ep.10 Tiny Furniture
Air Date: 2001-12-01
Learn how to make “big” furniture by starting with scaled down versions.
Ep.11 Window from Williamsburg
Air Date: 2001-12-08
Learn how to build a four-light Colonial window sash.
Ep.12 Flintlock Gunsmith
Air Date: 2001-12-15
Roy visits the Gunsmith Shop at Colonial Williamsburg to see how 18th century flintlock rifles were made.
Ep.13 Colonial Tablemaker
Air Date: 2001-12-22
Watch Roy “spin the wheel” at the Cabinet shop in Colonial Williamsburg as they produce 18th century furniture the old fashioned way.