Season 34

1. Taming the Timber Bench

2014-09-19

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

2. Pinch Rods and Squeezy Blocks

2014-09-27

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

3. Tapered Tail Tripod Table 1

2014-10-02

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

4. Tapered Tail Tripod Table 2

2014-10-11

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

5. Viceless Devices

2014-10-18

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

6. Daring Diagonal Dovetails

2014-10-25

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

7. Shop Class Tabouret

2014-11-01

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

8. Campaign Furniture

2014-11-08

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

9. Fitting Brass

2014-11-15

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

10. The Crotch and the Horse

2014-11-22

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

11. Dovetail Saw

2014-12-06

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

12. Tempered Steel

2014-12-13

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

13. Woodwright! - The Musical

2014-12-20

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