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Getting a Grip on It

Episode number: 1

Overview: Handles — Watch as Roy examines a number of tool handles, then creates an axe handle from a split of hickory and turns a chisel handle.

Candle Stand

Episode number: 2

Overview: Candle Stand — Follow along as Roy walks you through the steps of creating a classic walnut candle stand.

Plane Truth, Version 1

Episode number: 3

Overview: Learn the history of a wide variety of handplanes as Roy explains their many and specialized uses.

Plane Truth, Version 2

Episode number: 4

Overview: Learn the history of a wide variety of handplanes as Roy explains their many and specialized uses.

Getting Into Drawers

Episode number: 5

Overview: Join Roy as he makes a hand-hewn, half-blind dovetailed drawer for his workbench, and discusses many of the techniques used in traditional drawer making.

Finding and Fixing

Episode number: 6

Overview: See what Roy discovers at a scrap yard, antique store and flea market on his way to “The Woodwright’s Shop.”

Cutting your Teeth

Episode number: 7

Overview: It’s all about staying sharp, and in this episode Roy examines the dizzying array of saws available, from familiar panel saws to bowsaws and pit saws. Plus, as a special bonus Roy shows you how to sharpen a bowsaw.

While the Iron's Hot

Episode number: 8

Overview: Accompany Roy on a visit to Colonial Williamsburg to work with the living history museum’s blacksmiths as they make a froe, and forge a cant hook.

Straight and Narrow

Episode number: 9

Overview: Roy takes us through the hand-crafted creation process of a sash-style window, explaining the stiles, rails and muntins.

Vernacular Sash

Episode number: 10

Overview: Roy takes us through the hand-crafted creation process of a sash-style window, explaining the stiles, rails and muntins.

Woodwright at Sea

Episode number: 11

Overview: The evolution of modern boat building in America starts with simple designs such as those found in rough-hewn canoes – and its surprisingly fundamental. Watch Roy explore how to build a boat as he visits the Hampton Mariner’s Museum and discusses boat building that’s large and complex. There is a clear evolution in tools and techniques and it’s both instructive and entertaining to watch this process.

Tale of Two Toys

Episode number: 12

Overview: Roy looks at a collection of classic wood toys, and then shows us the steps to create a Crow Chaser.