Episode 1
Make a Chair
(Part 1) — Roy starts a classic post-and-rung rocking chair using traditional greenwood techniques.
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Episode 1
(Part 1) — Roy starts a classic post-and-rung rocking chair using traditional greenwood techniques.
Episode 2
(Part 2) — Work on the rocker continues; shaping the tenons, boring the mortises and creating the splats.
Episode 3
(Part 3) — Work on the rocker is completed with the creation of the rockers and adding a hickory bark seat.
Episode 4
Roy creates a traditional dough bowl from tulip poplar.
Episode 5
Eleanor Underhill joins Dad in the shop to turn a painted candle stand.
Episode 6
Roy welcomes a bowyer and a fletcher to the shop to make a woodland Indian’s bow and river cane arrows.
Episode 7
This may not be the four-poster bed you’re thinking of, as Roy builds a rustic version from rough, red cedar logs
Episode 8
Roy visits Colonial Williamsburg to watch the creation of a set of hardware for window shutters.
Episode 9
Continuing the Williamsburg theme, Roy visits the woodworker’s shop to watch frame-and-panel shutters made
Episode 10
Daughter Rachel joins Roy in the shop to make a marble track toy and Kick-Me machine.
Episode 11
Roy visits Monticello to look at some of the architectural creations and innovations of the former President..
Episode 12
Roy recreates stacking “book box” shelves built to Thomas Jefferson’s specifications, and still on display at Monticello.
Episode 13
Toshio Odate visits the shop to discuss and demonstrate Japanese woodworking tools, techniques and joinery.