Season 18
Episodes • 1998

1. Dovetailing a Cedar Box
minLearn simple box dovetails and create some shop characters that can hang out inside.
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2. Chip Carving
minDress up a small cedar box with a variety of chip carving designs.
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3. Chairs for Children
minRoy makes a walnut stick chair and a pine slab chair perfectly sized for children.
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4. Bark and Rustic Work
minLearn the details to add a hickory bark seat to a child’s chair.
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5. Debate of the Carpenter's Tools
minRoy draws on poetry from the 1400s to explain what tools were used by wrights of the day.
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6. Treadle Lathe
minBuild an improved version of Roy’s 20-year-old treadle lathe design — and it starts with scrap lumber!
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7. White Oak Basket
minA class on basket weaving? You bet! Weave a white oak basket with Roy.
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8. Wall Tool Chest
minRoy uses a red oak tool chest to illustrate a discussion on hand planes.
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10. Traditional Toys
minRoy shows how to make a traditional Russian pecking-chicken toy.
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11. Old Salem
minRoy visits Old Salem, North Carolina, founded in the 1760s by the Moravians. Their craft lives on in the recreated town.
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12. Swinging Cradle from Saxony
minLearn to build a scaled-down German swinging cradle built with lapstrake construction.
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13. Jamestown Woodworkers, 1607
minLearn about the history and the early settlers of the Jamestown, Virginia settlement.
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