Season 21

Episodes • 2001

Roy Underhill
The Sawhorse

1. The Sawhorse

min

The tools we use can be beautiful too! Roy shows you how to build beautiful saw horse.

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Welsh Chair Bodger Don Weber

2. Welsh Chair Bodger Don Weber

min

Roy teams up with the old Welsh Bodger himself and together they demonstrate how to build a classic Welsh Stick Chair.

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Toolbox from the 1940s

3. Toolbox from the 1940s

min

You can learn how to build a timeless relic from past generations of fine woodworkers in this episode, a Joiner’s Tool Box.

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Rounder Plane

4. Rounder Plane

min

An endless “pencil” sharpener to make round tapered handles for rake, boat spars- and more.

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Walnut Krumhorn

5. Walnut Krumhorn

min

Get down, get musical! Produce a wonderful old wind instrument from the Elizabethan era- the Krumhorn!

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Timber Frame at the Folklife Festival

6. Timber Frame at the Folklife Festival

min

Join Roy at the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival and learn how to build a timber-frame barn.

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Impossible Joints

7. Impossible Joints

min

Make a mysterious puzzle mallet with a devilishly difficult dovetail that’s impossible to break!

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Fools for Tools

8. Fools for Tools

min

Roy shows you how to find and restore traditional tools needed to do old time traditional woodworking.

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Blacksmith Hinges

9. Blacksmith Hinges

min

Join Roy at the Anderson Forge in Colonial Williamsburg and see how to make a traditional cross garnet hinge.

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Tiny Furniture

10. Tiny Furniture

min

Learn how to make “big” furniture by starting with scaled down versions.

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Window from Williamsburg

11. Window from Williamsburg

min

Learn how to build a four-light Colonial window sash.

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Flintlock Gunsmith

12. Flintlock Gunsmith

min

Roy visits the Gunsmith Shop at Colonial Williamsburg to see how 18th century flintlock rifles were made.

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Colonial Tablemaker

13. Colonial Tablemaker

min

Watch Roy “spin the wheel” at the Cabinet shop in Colonial Williamsburg as they produce 18th century furniture the old fashioned way.

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