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The Sawhorse

1 - The Sawhorse

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

Welsh Chair Bodger Don Weber

2 - 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.

Toolbox from the 1940s

3 - 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.

Rounder Plane

4 - Rounder Plane

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

Walnut Krumhorn

5 - Walnut Krumhorn

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

Timber Frame at the Folklife Festival

6 - Timber Frame at the Folklife Festival

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

Impossible Joints

7 - Impossible Joints

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

Fools for Tools

8 - Fools for Tools

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

Blacksmith Hinges

9 - Blacksmith Hinges

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

Tiny Furniture

10 - Tiny Furniture

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

Window from Williamsburg

11 - Window from Williamsburg

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

Flintlock Gunsmith

12 - Flintlock Gunsmith

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

Colonial Tablemaker

13 - Colonial Tablemaker

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