Season 28

Episodes • 2008

Roy Underhill
The Governor's PoBoy

1. The Governor's PoBoy

min

North Carolina Governor Mike Easley shows how to make a walnut side table.

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Joiner's Tool Chest Pt.1

2. Joiner's Tool Chest Pt.1

min

Pack up your tools in this little dovetailed chest of pine.

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Joiner's Tool Chest Pt.2

3. Joiner's Tool Chest Pt.2

min

Finish the chest with a mitered and paneled lid and a tongue and groove bottom.

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Thomas Jefferson's Bookstand

4. Thomas Jefferson's Bookstand

min

The sage of Monticello based his five-sided bookstand on designs he found in Paris.

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Classical Carving

5. Classical Carving

min

First lessons in fine furniture carving from Mack Headley, master of the Colonial Williams

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File Philosophy

6. File Philosophy

min

Master blacksmith Peter Ross shows the technique of cold joining and shaping colonial lock

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A Very Boring Program

7. A Very Boring Program

min

From bits to braces, augers to angle borers & even boring a square hole,you know the drill

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Lumberjack Fan Carving

8. Lumberjack Fan Carving

min

A Michigan master of folk carving whittles white cedar fans and birds of a wooden feather.

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Animated Wooden Toys

9. Animated Wooden Toys

min

Imagination (and a few strings) makes these carved critters come to life.

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Hammer Veneer

10. Hammer Veneer

min

Master musical instrument makers show classical techniques of hand cutting & wood veneer.

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Holly Wood Spectaculars

11. Holly Wood Spectaculars

min

Create decorative veneer patterns using oval engines, sharp knives/patient perfectionism.

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A Viking Tool Chest

12. A Viking Tool Chest

min

Welsh chair bodger Don Weber turns his hand to recreating a medieval tool kit.

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Woodworking in Berea

13. Woodworking in Berea

min

From chair building to instrument making to fine furniture collections.

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