The Woodwright's Shop

  • Premiered: Jan 1984
  • Episodes: 334
  • Followers: 5
  • Ended
  • PBS
  • Saturday at 16
  • Home and garden Reality

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Season 16
16x1
Arts and Crafts Bookcase
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 05, 1996
Learn the steps to recreate a knock down bookcase originally built by the Roycrofters of East Aurora, New York.
16x2
The Secret Dovetailed Box
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 12, 1996
Roy shows how to make a small box using a hidden dovetail joint that looks like a miter joint when complete.
16x3
Wood Inlay
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 19, 1996
This episode starts by making a scratch stock tool necessary to create the grooves for the simple Holly inlay that follows.
16x4
The Giant Chisels of Gaul
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 26, 1996
Roy visits local blacksmith shops and museums in the Alsace region of France in search of a giant chisel.
16x5
Roll Top Cabinetry
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 02, 1996
Using a roll-top joinery process, Roy creates a small box with tambour doors.
16x6
African Drum
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 09, 1996
Roy shows how to build an “African” drum that originally came from colonial America.
16x7
Woodcraft of Alsace, France
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 16, 1996
Roy continues his visit to the Alsace region looking at woodworking and timber-building traditions.
16x8
Comb-Back Windsor Chair, Part 1
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 23, 1996
In this two-part project, Roy shows the steps to create a classic comb-back Windsor chair.
16x9
Comb-Back Windsor Chair, Part 2
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 30, 1996
In this two-part project, Roy shows the steps to create a classic comb-back Windsor chair.
16x10
Sand-Powered Wooden Toys
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 07, 1996
Roy builds two simple toys: an interlocking-joint puzzle; and a sand-powered whirligig.
16x11
Cutting the Knuckle-Hinge Joint
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 14, 1996
Learn to create the useful knuckle-hinge joint and, just for fun, whittle a wooden pair of pliers.
16x12
Making Wooden Screws
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 21, 1996
Roy shows how to use a tap and screw box to create wooden screws for use in shop and furniture projects.
16x13 Season finale
The Pencil People
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 28, 1996
Learn the history of writing instruments and the evolution of the pencil, then look at a variety of pencil sharpeners from the past.

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