Season 28

Season 28 (2008)


Episodes: 13

Star Cast: Roy Underhill ,



Episodes List

Ep.1 The Governor's PoBoy

Air Date: 2008-09-27

North Carolina Governor Mike Easley shows how to make a walnut side table.

Ep.2 Joiner's Tool Chest Pt.1

Air Date: 2008-10-04

Pack up your tools in this little dovetailed chest of pine.

Ep.3 Joiner's Tool Chest Pt.2

Air Date: 2008-10-11

Finish the chest with a mitered and paneled lid and a tongue and groove bottom.

Ep.4 Thomas Jefferson's Bookstand

Air Date: 2008-10-18

The sage of Monticello based his five-sided bookstand on designs he found in Paris.

Ep.5 Classical Carving

Air Date: 2008-10-25

First lessons in fine furniture carving from Mack Headley, master of the Colonial Williams

Ep.6 File Philosophy

Air Date: 2008-11-01

Master blacksmith Peter Ross shows the technique of cold joining and shaping colonial lock

Ep.7 A Very Boring Program

Air Date: 2008-11-08

From bits to braces, augers to angle borers & even boring a square hole,you know the drill

Ep.8 Lumberjack Fan Carving

Air Date: 2008-11-15

A Michigan master of folk carving whittles white cedar fans and birds of a wooden feather.

Ep.9 Animated Wooden Toys

Air Date: 2008-11-22

Imagination (and a few strings) makes these carved critters come to life.

Ep.10 Hammer Veneer

Air Date: 2008-11-29

Master musical instrument makers show classical techniques of hand cutting & wood veneer.

Ep.11 Holly Wood Spectaculars

Air Date: 2008-12-06

Create decorative veneer patterns using oval engines, sharp knives/patient perfectionism.

Ep.12 A Viking Tool Chest

Air Date: 2008-12-13

Welsh chair bodger Don Weber turns his hand to recreating a medieval tool kit.

Ep.13 Woodworking in Berea

Air Date: 2008-12-20

From chair building to instrument making to fine furniture collections.