Season 14

Episodes • 1994

Roy Underhill
Woodworkers of the Red Dragon

1. Woodworkers of the Red Dragon

min

Roy visits a recreated Celtic village in Wales, looking at Welsh woodworking including building construction, clog making and traditional carved Welsh love spoons.

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The Carpenter's Tool Box

2. The Carpenter's Tool Box

min

Learn to build Roy’s iconic carpenter’s tool tote.

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Ancient Woodcraft of Ireland

3. Ancient Woodcraft of Ireland

min

Roy looks at Irish woodworking, including houses, harps, caravans and traditional ship-building techniques.

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A Sailor's Sea Chest

4. A Sailor's Sea Chest

min

Learn to build a sailor’s sea chest with beveled through dovetails.

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Oak High Stool with a Hickory Bark Seat

5. Oak High Stool with a Hickory Bark Seat

min

Roy builds a stool starting with splitting and riving the green wood and ending with a woven-bark seat.

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Standing Embroidery Shop

6. Standing Embroidery Shop

min

Learn the steps to build a standing embroidery hoop large enough to handle embroidery on a quilt.

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The Timber-Frame House

7. The Timber-Frame House

min

Roy builds a scaled model of a Welsh cruck-frame barn, teaching the woodworking principals of timber framing.

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Wooden Lock and Key

8. Wooden Lock and Key

min

Create a clever wood lock-and-key door set in the shop with Roy.

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Shaker Sewing Stand

9. Shaker Sewing Stand

min

Roy builds a traditional single-drawer Shaker sewing stand.

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Panel-Frame Construction

10. Panel-Frame Construction

min

Learn the benefits and uses of frame-and-panel construction and the joinery steps to create a frame-and-panel door.

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Tools of the Eighteenth Century

11. Tools of the Eighteenth Century

min

Roy visits Colonial Williamsburg to view their exhibit of 1,500 eighteenth-century woodworking tools.

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The Williamsburg Blacksmiths

12. The Williamsburg Blacksmiths

min

Watch a traditional woodworking tool –a drawknife –forged using historically accurate techniques.

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Blacksmiths Forge Ahead!

13. Blacksmiths Forge Ahead!

min

Learn the steps used to smith a Suffolk door latch used during colonial times.

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