The Woodwright's Shop — Season 4

Oct 198429m

Roy takes us on a tour the Dominy Shop at Winterthur Museum. The shop holds the tools and shop items used by three generations of craftsman from 1750-1850.

Oct 198429m

Roy walks us through the steps to create a simple, but accurate and functional spring pole lathe.

Oct 198429m

Roy welcomes Wallace Gusler from Colonial Williamsburg, and he shows the process to create a cabriole leg with a ball and claw foot.

Oct 198429m

Roy works with his daughter, Rachel, to create a child-size, 17th-century chair found in a book by Wallace Nutting.

Nov 198429m

Roy explores the contents of a recently purchased tool chest, trying to determine something of the original owner. He then shows how to recreate the chest itself.

Nov 198429m

Mack Headley from Colonial Williamsburg visits the shop and demonstrates the chip carving techniques used to decorate furniture.

Nov 198429m

Roy looks at the details of early-American fences, including lightweight and portable fences used for sheep herding, garden fences and more substantial post and rail “fences” used in forts built around 1620.

Nov 198429m

Roy shows you how to make some always-gift-appropriate and useful utensils for the kitchen including a rolling pin, heavy spoon, a collapsible drinking cup and more.

Dec 198429m

Roy pitches in with the raising of the frame-and-timber structure for Anderson’s Forge at Colonial Williamsburg.

Dec 198429m

Roy builds a small rowboat using traditional tools and techniques.

Dec 198429m

After discussing how humidity affects different wood species, Roy makes a clever and simple late 18th-century hygrometer to measure the humidity in the shop.

Dec 198429m

Roy recreates a classic pine corner cupboard.

Dec 198429m

To celebrate his new nephew, Roy builds an 18th century baby’s high chair with rush seating.