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.