Season 34

1. Taming the Timber Bench

Your legs will stay tight in this classic German carpenter’s bench built with stopped sliding dovetails.

2014-09-19 • ? min

2. Pinch Rods and Squeezy Blocks

This pair of sliding diagonal rods with copper collars will help you get your chests square and your dovetails tight.

2014-09-27 • ? min

3. Tapered Tail Tripod Table 1

Walnut legs riven from the log begin this table inspired by the Dominy workshops.

2014-10-02 • ? min

4. Tapered Tail Tripod Table 2

A walnut burl top and tricky turning makes tapered dovetails for a three-legged table.

2014-10-11 • ? min

5. Viceless Devices

From the holdfast to the birdsmouth, Roy explores wondrous ways to grip the grain and rediscovers and old trick from a rare book.

2014-10-18 • ? min

6. Daring Diagonal Dovetails

Learn to cut the rising diagonal dovetail for corners that are stronger and striking, no matter how you look at them.

2014-10-25 • ? min

7. Shop Class Tabouret

The old shop-class plant stand joined with half-laps and dowels teaches us to pay attention to the grain, not just the machine.

2014-11-01 • ? min

8. Campaign Furniture

Christopher Schwarz shows the ins and outs of Campaign furniture made for travel to the far-flung reaches of the Empire.

2014-11-08 • ? min

9. Fitting Brass

Chris Schwarz shows how to fit brass corners and hardware flush with the surfaces of Campaign furniture.

2014-11-15 • ? min

10. The Crotch and the Horse

An old shaving horse from the Virginia mountains demonstrates that the natural shapes in timber make the strongest wooden construction.

2014-11-22 • ? min

11. Dovetail Saw

Tom Calisto joins Roy to make a brass-backed hand saw perfect for the finest dovetails or the toughest tenons.

2014-12-06 • ? min

12. Tempered Steel

Blacksmith Peter Ross shows how to forge, weld, harden and temper tool steel for cutting edges that stay sharp longer.

2014-12-13 • ? min

13. Woodwright! - The Musical

The Underhill Rose band joins Roy in the shop for a musical misadventure in the ways of the Woodwright.

2014-12-20 • ? min