The Woodwright's Shop — Season 11

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(Part 1) — Roy starts a classic post-and-rung rocking chair using traditional greenwood techniques.

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(Part 2) — Work on the rocker continues; shaping the tenons, boring the mortises and creating the splats.

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(Part 3) — Work on the rocker is completed with the creation of the rockers and adding a hickory bark seat.

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Roy creates a traditional dough bowl from tulip poplar.

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Eleanor Underhill joins Dad in the shop to turn a painted candle stand.

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Roy welcomes a bowyer and a fletcher to the shop to make a woodland Indian’s bow and river cane arrows.

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This may not be the four-poster bed you’re thinking of, as Roy builds a rustic version from rough, red cedar logs

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Roy visits Colonial Williamsburg to watch the creation of a set of hardware for window shutters.

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Continuing the Williamsburg theme, Roy visits the woodworker’s shop to watch frame-and-panel shutters made

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Daughter Rachel joins Roy in the shop to make a marble track toy and Kick-Me machine.

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Roy visits Monticello to look at some of the architectural creations and innovations of the former President..

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Roy recreates stacking “book box” shelves built to Thomas Jefferson’s specifications, and still on display at Monticello.

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Toshio Odate visits the shop to discuss and demonstrate Japanese woodworking tools, techniques and joinery.