Staked Furniture

Overview: The Season 36 premiere shows how to make a chair similar to the one portrayed in Vincent Van Gogh's masterpiece.

Overview: Roy shows how to create easy-to-make wooden gift boxes with mitered corners and lids that slide in grooves.

Overview: Master of Pilgrim-century furniture Peter Follansbee joins Roy to make a slope-lidded, carved box from carved white and red oak.

Overview: Figures from history including Benjamin Franklin and Muhammad Ali inspire Roy’s new line of waving arm wooden whirlygigs.

Overview: Roy and workbench builder Will Myers test out the strength of the classic wedged mortise and tenon joint for take-apart furniture.

Overview: Woodworker Peter Follansbee shows Roy Underhill how to make Swedish shrink boxes from hollowed wood with inserted bottoms.

Overview: The great poet-athlete Muhammad Ali inspires the best lessons in woodworking – Saw Like a Butterfly, Plane Like a Bee!

Overview: Chair-maker Elia Bizzarri shows Roy how to make a split oak firewood carrier inspired by the classic wooden harvest rake.

Overview: Roy Underhill makes a double, swinging casement window using wooden planes and premium pine.

Overview: Master blacksmith Peter Ross shows how to forge hinges and latches for a replica tool chest.

Overview: Roy shows how to dovetail a stout, sloped top tool chest that came from Bristol, England in 1900.

Overview: Christopher Schwarz joins Roy to unlock the secrets of the ancient Roman woodworker’s bench.

Overview: How a plank with inserted legs can become a chair, table or bench.