Episode 1
Inner Woodworking
1983-10-01 • 29 min
Observe as Roy looks at the mechanics of wood and how a trees’ growth affects how you work wood once you have it in your shop.
TV season
1983-10-01
Episode 1
1983-10-01 • 29 min
Observe as Roy looks at the mechanics of wood and how a trees’ growth affects how you work wood once you have it in your shop.
Episode 2
1983-10-08 • 29 min
Roy hand-crafts the frame for a massive, classic workbench using pegged and keyed mortise-and-tenon construction.
Episode 3
1983-10-15 • 29 min
Roy finishes the workbench started in the previous episode.
Episode 4
1983-10-22 • 29 min
With some help a couple of coopers from Colonial Williamsburg, Roy shows the steps to creating a cooper’s bucket.
Episode 5
1983-10-29 • 29 min
Follow along as Roy builds a stunning nailed-together, six-board blanket chest with an interior till.
Episode 6
1983-11-05 • 29 min
Watch and learn as Roy builds three simple gift projects, including a flapping duck toy, a small pine knock-down bench and a wooden egg beater.
Episode 7
1983-11-12 • 29 min
Join Roy as he walks you through the process for making a Gee Haw Wimmey Diddle, a quintessential mountain folk toy, along and a willow whistle.
Episode 8
1983-11-19 • 29 min
Watch as Roy’s guest Colonial Williamsburg’s Wallace Gusler talks about the techniques and tools needed for carved furniture.
Episode 9
1983-11-26 • 29 min
Take a trip with Roy through the geological history of whetstones, then head out on a hunt for rough materials to make your own whetstone for sharpening.
Episode 10
1983-12-03 • 29 min
Spend time with Roy and gunsmith Gary Brumfield of Colonial Williamsburg as they discuss the steps to making a handcrafted 18th-century-style rifle.
Episode 11
1983-12-10 • 29 min
Discover details about some of the traditional wooden implements used by weavers, including spinning wheels, clock reels and niddy noddys; and watch as Roy makes a swift and a tape loom.
Episode 12
1983-12-17 • 29 min
Join Roy in learning the techniques and processes used to create a violin in the 18th century.
Episode 13
1983-12-24 • 29 min
Watch as Roy Black and Robert Watson show Roy how to make round-bottom and flat-bottom white oak baskets, starting from a log and using only hand tools.