Season 18

1. Dovetailing a Cedar Box

1998-10-03

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

2. Chip Carving

1998-10-10

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

3. Chairs for Children

1998-10-17

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

4. Bark and Rustic Work

1998-10-24

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

5. Debate of the Carpenter's Tools

1998-10-31

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

6. Treadle Lathe

1998-11-07

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

7. White Oak Basket

1998-11-14

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

8. Wall Tool Chest

1998-11-21

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

9. Woodworking Gizmos

1998-11-28

Learn to convert a treadle lathe into a treadle jigsaw.

10. Traditional Toys

1998-12-05

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

11. Old Salem

1998-12-12

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

12. Swinging Cradle from Saxony

1998-12-19

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

13. Jamestown Woodworkers, 1607

1998-12-26

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