The Woodwright's Shop — Season 14

Oct 1994

Roy visits a recreated Celtic village in Wales, looking at Welsh woodworking including building construction, clog making and traditional carved Welsh love spoons.

Oct 1994

Learn to build Roy’s iconic carpenter’s tool tote.

Oct 1994

Roy looks at Irish woodworking, including houses, harps, caravans and traditional ship-building techniques.

Oct 1994

Learn to build a sailor’s sea chest with beveled through dovetails.

Oct 1994

Roy builds a stool starting with splitting and riving the green wood and ending with a woven-bark seat.

Nov 1994

Learn the steps to build a standing embroidery hoop large enough to handle embroidery on a quilt.

Nov 1994

Roy builds a scaled model of a Welsh cruck-frame barn, teaching the woodworking principals of timber framing.

Nov 1994

Create a clever wood lock-and-key door set in the shop with Roy.

Nov 1994

Roy builds a traditional single-drawer Shaker sewing stand.

Dec 1994

Learn the benefits and uses of frame-and-panel construction and the joinery steps to create a frame-and-panel door.

Dec 1994

Roy visits Colonial Williamsburg to view their exhibit of 1,500 eighteenth-century woodworking tools.

Dec 1994

Watch a traditional woodworking tool –a drawknife –forged using historically accurate techniques.

Dec 1994

Learn the steps used to smith a Suffolk door latch used during colonial times.