Season 18

Episodes • 1998

Roy Underhill
Dovetailing a Cedar Box

1. Dovetailing a Cedar Box

min

Learn simple box dovetails and create some shop characters that can hang out inside.

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Chip Carving

2. Chip Carving

min

Dress up a small cedar box with a variety of chip carving designs.

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Chairs for Children

3. Chairs for Children

min

Roy makes a walnut stick chair and a pine slab chair perfectly sized for children.

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Bark and Rustic Work

4. Bark and Rustic Work

min

Learn the details to add a hickory bark seat to a child’s chair.

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Debate of the Carpenter's Tools

5. Debate of the Carpenter's Tools

min

Roy draws on poetry from the 1400s to explain what tools were used by wrights of the day.

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Treadle Lathe

6. Treadle Lathe

min

Build an improved version of Roy’s 20-year-old treadle lathe design — and it starts with scrap lumber!

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White Oak Basket

7. White Oak Basket

min

A class on basket weaving? You bet! Weave a white oak basket with Roy.

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Wall Tool Chest

8. Wall Tool Chest

min

Roy uses a red oak tool chest to illustrate a discussion on hand planes.

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Woodworking Gizmos

9. Woodworking Gizmos

min

Learn to convert a treadle lathe into a treadle jigsaw.

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Traditional Toys

10. Traditional Toys

min

Roy shows how to make a traditional Russian pecking-chicken toy.

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Old Salem

11. Old Salem

min

Roy visits Old Salem, North Carolina, founded in the 1760s by the Moravians. Their craft lives on in the recreated town.

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Swinging Cradle from Saxony

12. Swinging Cradle from Saxony

min

Learn to build a scaled-down German swinging cradle built with lapstrake construction.

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Jamestown Woodworkers, 1607

13. Jamestown Woodworkers, 1607

min

Learn about the history and the early settlers of the Jamestown, Virginia settlement.

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