Episode 1
The Dominy Shop
1984-10-06 • 29 min
Roy takes us on a tour the Dominy Shop at Winterthur Museum. The shop holds the tools and shop items used by three generations of craftsman from 1750-1850.
TV season
1984-10-06
Episode 1
1984-10-06 • 29 min
Roy takes us on a tour the Dominy Shop at Winterthur Museum. The shop holds the tools and shop items used by three generations of craftsman from 1750-1850.
Episode 2
1984-10-13 • 29 min
Roy walks us through the steps to create a simple, but accurate and functional spring pole lathe.
Episode 3
1984-10-20 • 29 min
Roy welcomes Wallace Gusler from Colonial Williamsburg, and he shows the process to create a cabriole leg with a ball and claw foot.
Episode 4
1984-10-27 • 29 min
Roy works with his daughter, Rachel, to create a child-size, 17th-century chair found in a book by Wallace Nutting.
Episode 5
1984-11-03 • 29 min
Roy explores the contents of a recently purchased tool chest, trying to determine something of the original owner. He then shows how to recreate the chest itself.
Episode 6
1984-11-10 • 29 min
Mack Headley from Colonial Williamsburg visits the shop and demonstrates the chip carving techniques used to decorate furniture.
Episode 7
1984-11-17 • 29 min
Roy looks at the details of early-American fences, including lightweight and portable fences used for sheep herding, garden fences and more substantial post and rail “fences” used in forts built around 1620.
Episode 8
1984-11-24 • 29 min
Roy shows you how to make some always-gift-appropriate and useful utensils for the kitchen including a rolling pin, heavy spoon, a collapsible drinking cup and more.
Episode 9
1984-12-01 • 29 min
Roy pitches in with the raising of the frame-and-timber structure for Anderson’s Forge at Colonial Williamsburg.
Episode 10
1984-12-08 • 29 min
Roy builds a small rowboat using traditional tools and techniques.
Episode 11
1984-12-15 • 29 min
After discussing how humidity affects different wood species, Roy makes a clever and simple late 18th-century hygrometer to measure the humidity in the shop.
Episode 12
1984-12-22 • 29 min
Roy recreates a classic pine corner cupboard.
Episode 13
1984-12-29 • 29 min
To celebrate his new nephew, Roy builds an 18th century baby’s high chair with rush seating.