Big Ash Mallet!

Overview: Give your butt joints a break with the tenons and dovetails that connect this pine standing desk from Pennsylvania.

Overview: The miter-clamped breadboard end makes a broad desktop that always stays flat.

Overview: Roy Underhill demonstrates how to cut bead moldings with hand planes for corners that look sharp and last longer.

Overview: Classical carver Mary May provides a lesson on woodcarving and a proper rebuke for edge tool abuse!

Overview: Roy duplicates the beveled bridle joints and chamfered chops of an old saw-sharpening vise.

Overview: Using giant model rip and crosscut saws, Roy demonstrates how to correctly sharpen handsaws.

Overview: Roy attempts to replace a chest of molding planes with one complex metal contraption

Overview: The master joiner of Plimoth Plantation shows how to frame a small, mortised, and tenoned chest in the old English style.

Overview: A master joiner shows Roy how to make and fit the beveled panels and storage till into a framed chest from the Pilgrim era.

Overview: Master blacksmith Peter Ross shows how to forge iron hinges and locks from the earliest days of the American experience.

Overview: Chris Schwarz shows Roy how to measure up with an English try square based on the examples in the famous Benjamin Seaton tool chest.

Overview: Learn to make the simple and useful Dutch tool chest with its characteristic 30-degree slanted lid.

Overview: With ash head and hickory handle, Roy shows how to make a proper joiner's mallet for the ages.