E1 - Dovetailing a Cedar Box

Aired: October 03, 1998

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

E2 - Chip Carving

Aired: October 10, 1998

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

E3 - Chairs for Children

Aired: October 17, 1998

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

E4 - Bark and Rustic Work

Aired: October 24, 1998

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

E5 - Debate of the Carpenter's Tools

Aired: October 31, 1998

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

E6 - Treadle Lathe

Aired: November 07, 1998

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

E7 - White Oak Basket

Aired: November 14, 1998

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

E8 - Wall Tool Chest

Aired: November 21, 1998

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

E9 - Woodworking Gizmos

Aired: November 28, 1998

Learn to convert a treadle lathe into a treadle jigsaw.

E10 - Traditional Toys

Aired: December 05, 1998

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

E11 - Old Salem

Aired: December 12, 1998

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

E12 - Swinging Cradle from Saxony

Aired: December 19, 1998

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

E13 - Jamestown Woodworkers, 1607

Aired: December 26, 1998

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