Woodwright! - The Musical

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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