13 episodesFirst aired 21 September 2013
E1Sept 2013
Give your butt joints a break with the tenons and dovetails that connect this pine standing desk from Pennsylvania.
E2Sept 2013
The miter-clamped breadboard end makes a broad desktop that always stays flat.
E3Oct 2013
Roy Underhill demonstrates how to cut bead moldings with hand planes for corners that look sharp and last longer.
E4Oct 2013
Classical carver Mary May provides a lesson on woodcarving and a proper rebuke for edge tool abuse!
E5Oct 2013
Roy duplicates the beveled bridle joints and chamfered chops of an old saw-sharpening vise.
E6Oct 2013
Using giant model rip and crosscut saws, Roy demonstrates how to correctly sharpen handsaws.
E7Nov 2013
Roy attempts to replace a chest of molding planes with one complex metal contraption
E8Nov 2013
The master joiner of Plimoth Plantation shows how to frame a small, mortised, and tenoned chest in the old English style.
E9Nov 2013
A master joiner shows Roy how to make and fit the beveled panels and storage till into a framed chest from the Pilgrim era.
E10Nov 2013
Master blacksmith Peter Ross shows how to forge iron hinges and locks from the earliest days of the American experience.
E11Nov 2013
Chris Schwarz shows Roy how to measure up with an English try square based on the examples in the famous Benjamin Seaton tool chest.
E12Dec 2013
Learn to make the simple and useful Dutch tool chest with its characteristic 30-degree slanted lid.
E13Dec 2013
With ash head and hickory handle, Roy shows how to make a proper joiner's mallet for the ages.