Season 18

1. Dovetailing a Cedar Box

Learn simple box dovetails and create some shop characters that can hang out inside.

1998-10-03 • ? min

2. Chip Carving

Dress up a small cedar box with a variety of chip carving designs.

1998-10-10 • ? min

3. Chairs for Children

Roy makes a walnut stick chair and a pine slab chair perfectly sized for children.

1998-10-17 • ? min

4. Bark and Rustic Work

Learn the details to add a hickory bark seat to a child’s chair.

1998-10-24 • ? min

5. Debate of the Carpenter's Tools

Roy draws on poetry from the 1400s to explain what tools were used by wrights of the day.

1998-10-31 • ? min

6. Treadle Lathe

Build an improved version of Roy’s 20-year-old treadle lathe design — and it starts with scrap lumber!

1998-11-07 • ? min

7. White Oak Basket

A class on basket weaving? You bet! Weave a white oak basket with Roy.

1998-11-14 • ? min

8. Wall Tool Chest

Roy uses a red oak tool chest to illustrate a discussion on hand planes.

1998-11-21 • ? min

9. Woodworking Gizmos

Learn to convert a treadle lathe into a treadle jigsaw.

1998-11-28 • ? min

10. Traditional Toys

Roy shows how to make a traditional Russian pecking-chicken toy.

1998-12-05 • ? min

11. Old Salem

Roy visits Old Salem, North Carolina, founded in the 1760s by the Moravians. Their craft lives on in the recreated town.

1998-12-12 • ? min

12. Swinging Cradle from Saxony

Learn to build a scaled-down German swinging cradle built with lapstrake construction.

1998-12-19 • ? min

13. Jamestown Woodworkers, 1607

Learn about the history and the early settlers of the Jamestown, Virginia settlement.

1998-12-26 • ? min