Season 14

1. Woodworkers of the Red Dragon

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

1994-10-01 • ? min

2. The Carpenter's Tool Box

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

1994-10-08 • ? min

3. Ancient Woodcraft of Ireland

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

1994-10-15 • ? min

4. A Sailor's Sea Chest

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

1994-10-22 • ? min

5. Oak High Stool with a Hickory Bark Seat

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

1994-10-29 • ? min

6. Standing Embroidery Shop

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

1994-11-05 • ? min

7. The Timber-Frame House

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

1994-11-12 • ? min

8. Wooden Lock and Key

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

1994-11-19 • ? min

9. Shaker Sewing Stand

Roy builds a traditional single-drawer Shaker sewing stand.

1994-11-26 • ? min

10. Panel-Frame Construction

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

1994-12-03 • ? min

11. Tools of the Eighteenth Century

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

1994-12-10 • ? min

12. The Williamsburg Blacksmiths

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

1994-12-17 • ? min

13. Blacksmiths Forge Ahead!

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

1994-12-24 • ? min