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 4
4x1
The Dominy Shop
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 22, 1984
Roy takes us on a tour the Dominy Shop at Winterthur Museum. The shop holds the tools and shop items used by three generations of craftsman from 1750-1850.
4x2
A Spring Pole Lathe
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 22, 1984
Roy walks us through the steps to create a simple, but accurate and functional spring pole lathe.
4x3
Ball & Claw Feet
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 22, 1984
Roy welcomes Wallace Gusler from Colonial Williamsburg, and he shows the process to create a cabriole leg with a ball and claw foot.
4x4
The Wainscot Chair
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 22, 1984
Roy works with his daughter, Rachel, to create a child-size, 17th-century chair found in a book by Wallace Nutting.
4x5
Tool Boxes & Chests
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 22, 1984
Roy explores the contents of a recently purchased tool chest, trying to determine something of the original owner. He then shows how to recreate the chest itself.
4x6
Chip Carving
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 22, 1984
Mack Headley from Colonial Williamsburg visits the shop and demonstrates the chip carving techniques used to decorate furniture.
4x7
Good Fences
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 22, 1984
Roy looks at the details of early-American fences, including lightweight and portable fences used for sheep herding, garden fences and more substantial post and rail “fences” used in forts built around 1620.
4x8
Kitchen Gifts
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 22, 1984
Roy shows you how to make some always-gift-appropriate and useful utensils for the kitchen including a rolling pin, heavy spoon, a collapsible drinking cup and more.
4x9
Raising The Shop
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 22, 1984
Roy pitches in with the raising of the frame-and-timber structure for Anderson’s Forge at Colonial Williamsburg.
4x10
Building A Boat
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 22, 1984
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4x11
Rittenshouse Hygrometer
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 22, 1984
After discussing how humidity affects different wood species, Roy makes a clever and simple late 18th-century hygrometer to measure the humidity in the shop.
4x12
Corner Cupboard
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 22, 1984
Roy recreates a classic pine corner cupboard.
4x13 Season finale
Highchair
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 22, 1984
To celebrate his new nephew, Roy builds an 18th century baby’s high chair with rush seating.

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