The Woodwright's Shop

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  • Home and garden Reality

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18x1
Dovetailing a Cedar Box
Episode overview
Learn simple box dovetails and create some shop characters that can hang out inside.
18x2
Chip Carving
Episode overview
Dress up a small cedar box with a variety of chip carving designs.
18x3
Chairs for Children
Episode overview
Roy makes a walnut stick chair and a pine slab chair perfectly sized for children.
18x4
Bark and Rustic Work
Episode overview
Learn the details to add a hickory bark seat to a child’s chair.
18x5
Debate of the Carpenter's Tools
Episode overview
Roy draws on poetry from the 1400s to explain what tools were used by wrights of the day.
18x6
Treadle Lathe
Episode overview
Build an improved version of Roy’s 20-year-old treadle lathe design — and it starts with scrap lumber!
18x7
White Oak Basket
Episode overview
A class on basket weaving? You bet! Weave a white oak basket with Roy.
18x8
Wall Tool Chest
Episode overview
Roy uses a red oak tool chest to illustrate a discussion on hand planes.
18x9
Woodworking Gizmos
Episode overview
Learn to convert a treadle lathe into a treadle jigsaw.
18x10
Traditional Toys
Episode overview
Roy shows how to make a traditional Russian pecking-chicken toy.
18x11
Old Salem
Episode overview
Roy visits Old Salem, North Carolina, founded in the 1760s by the Moravians. Their craft lives on in the recreated town.
18x12
Swinging Cradle from Saxony
Episode overview
Learn to build a scaled-down German swinging cradle built with lapstrake construction.
18x13
Jamestown Woodworkers, 1607
Episode overview
Learn about the history and the early settlers of the Jamestown, Virginia settlement.

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