Season 21

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Episode 12001-09-29

The Sawhorse

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

Episode 22001-10-06

Welsh Chair Bodger Don Weber

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

Episode 32001-10-13

Toolbox from the 1940s

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

Episode 42001-10-20

Rounder Plane

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

Episode 52001-10-27

Walnut Krumhorn

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

Episode 62001-11-03

Timber Frame at the Folklife Festival

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

Episode 72001-11-10

Impossible Joints

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

Episode 82001-11-17

Fools for Tools

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

Episode 92001-11-24

Blacksmith Hinges

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

Episode 102001-12-01

Tiny Furniture

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

Episode 112001-12-08

Window from Williamsburg

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

Episode 122001-12-15

Flintlock Gunsmith

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

Episode 132001-12-22

Colonial Tablemaker

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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