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The Woodwright's Shop — Storyline

The Woodwright's Shop is a traditional woodworking show hosted by Roy Underhill on the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States. It is one of the longest running "how to" shows on PBS. Since its debut in 1979, the show has aired over 400 episodes. The first two seasons were broadcast only on public TV in North Carolina; the season numbering was restarted when the show went national in 1981. It is still filmed at the UNC-TV studios in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

Cast & Crew

• Starring: Roy Underhill

The Woodwright's Shop — Series Details

The Woodwright's Shop — Episode Guide

Season 1

• E1: Maul & Glut (1981-01-01) — Watch Roy make two traditional tools by first felling a tree then shaping a maul and glut using period iron woodworking tools.
• E2: Shaving Horse (1981-01-01) — Learn how to make a shaving horse – one of the most important hand-tool shop fixtures for working with drawknives and spokeshaves.
• E3: Shaving Horse Part 2 (1981-01-01) — Learn how to make a shaving horse – one of the most important hand-tool shop fixtures for working with drawknives and spokeshaves.
• E4: Hay Rake (1981-01-01) — Spend time with Roy as he shows you how to build one of his favorite projects: a hickory hay rake that is both strong and lightweight.
• E5: Lathes (1981-01-01) — Join Roy on a tour of the history and development of human powered machines, including one of his favorites: the lathe.
• E6: Rocking Chair (1981-01-01) — Learn how to build a classic armless rocking chair using traditional tools and techniques. Then create a woven white oak seat for the rocker. Plus, watch as Roy’s guest Bryant Hols
• E7: Rocking Chair Part 2 (1981-01-01) — Learn how to build a classic armless rocking chair using traditional tools and techniques. Then create a woven white oak seat for the rocker. Plus, watch as Roy’s guest Bryant Hols
• E8: Log Cabin (1981-01-01) — Watch as Roy demonstrates the steps and hand-hewn joinery used in building traditional log cabins.
• E9: Timberframe Construction (1981-01-01) — Watch and learn as Roy addresses the details of timber framing, including post-and-beam and mortise-and-tenon construction techniques.
• E10: Dough Bowls and Pitch Forks (1981-01-01) — Watch as Roy makes a pitchfork and a dough bowl, each from a single piece of wood.
• E11: Blacksmithing (1981-01-01) — Spend some time at the forge with Roy to learn basic blacksmithing techniques and discover how to create a spike dog (a tool used in timber framing).
• E12: Panel Frame and Dovetail (1981-01-01) — Follow along as Roy discusses frame-and-panel construction for doors, and the basic steps for cutting a dovetailed joint.
• E13: Colonial Williamsburg (1981-01-01) — Travel with Roy to Colonial Williamsburg to take a look at 18th-century craftsmanship including a visit with a wheelwright, a cooper and a blacksmith, as well as a look inside the

Season 2

• E1: Getting a Grip on It (1982-10-02) — Watch as Roy examines a number of tool handles, then creates an axe handle from a split of hickory and turns a chisel handle.
• E2: Candle Stand (1982-10-09) — Follow along as Roy walks you through the steps of creating a classic walnut candle stand.
• E3: Plane Truth, Version 1 (1982-10-16) — Learn the history of a wide variety of handplanes as Roy explains their many and specialized uses.
• E4: Plane Truth, Version 2 (1982-10-23) — Learn the history of a wide variety of handplanes as Roy explains their many and specialized uses. Lost episode.
• E5: Getting Into Drawers (1982-10-30) — 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.
• E6: Finding and Fixing (1982-11-06) — See what Roy discovers at a scrap yard, antique store and flea market on his way to “The Woodwright’s Shop.”
• E7: Cutting your Teeth (1982-11-13) — 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
• E8: While the Iron’s Hot (1982-11-20) — 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.
• E9: Straight and Narrow (1982-11-27) — Lost episode.
• E10: Vernacular Sash (1982-12-04) — Roy takes us through the hand-crafted creation process of a sash-style window, explaining the stiles, rails and muntins.
• E11: Woodwright at Sea (1982-12-18) — 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 bu
• E12: Tale of Two Toys (1982-12-25) — Roy looks at a collection of classic wood toys, and then shows us the steps to create a Crow Chaser.

Season 3

• E1: Inner Woodworking (1983-10-01) — Observe as Roy looks at the mechanics of wood and how a trees’ growth affects how you work wood once you have it in your shop.
• E2: Workbench (Part I) (1983-10-08) — Roy hand-crafts the frame for a massive, classic workbench using pegged and keyed mortise-and-tenon construction.
• E3: Workbench (Part II) (1983-10-15) — Roy finishes the workbench started in the previous episode.
• E4: Cooper’s Bucket (1983-10-22) — With some help a couple of coopers from Colonial Williamsburg, Roy shows the steps to creating a cooper’s bucket.
• E5: Blanket Chest (1983-10-29) — Follow along as Roy builds a stunning nailed-together, six-board blanket chest with an interior till.
• E6: Simple Gifts (1983-11-05) — Watch and learn as Roy builds three simple gift projects, including a flapping duck toy, a small pine knock-down bench and a wooden egg beater.
• E7: Whimsy Diddling (1983-11-12) — Join Roy as he walks you through the process for making a Gee Haw Wimmey Diddle, a quintessential mountain folk toy, along and a willow whistle.
• E8: Furniture Carving (1983-11-19) — Watch as Roy’s guest Colonial Williamsburg’s Wallace Gusler talks about the techniques and tools needed for carved furniture.
• E9: Whetstone Quarry (1983-11-26) — Take a trip with Roy through the geological history of whetstones, then head out on a hunt for rough materials to make your own whetstone for sharpening.
• E10: The Gunsmith (1983-12-03) — Spend time with Roy and gunsmith Gary Brumfield of Colonial Williamsburg as they discuss the steps to making a handcrafted 18th-century-style rifle.
• E11: Wood for the Weaver (1983-12-10) — Discover details about some of the traditional wooden implements used by weavers, including spinning wheels, clock reels and niddy noddys; and watch as Roy makes a swift and a tape
• E12: The Luthier (1983-12-17) — Join Roy in learning the techniques and processes used to create a violin in the 18th century.
• E13: The Basket Makers (1983-12-24) — Watch as Roy Black and Robert Watson show Roy how to make round-bottom and flat-bottom white oak baskets, starting from a log and using only hand tools.

Season 4

• E1: The Dominy Shop (1984-10-06) — Roy takes us on a tour the Dominy Shop at Winterthur Museum. The shop holds the tools and shop items used by three generations of craftsman from 1750-1850.
• E2: A Spring Pole Lathe (1984-10-13) — Roy walks us through the steps to create a simple, but accurate and functional spring pole lathe.
• E3: Ball & Claw Feet (1984-10-20) — Roy welcomes Wallace Gusler from Colonial Williamsburg, and he shows the process to create a cabriole leg with a ball and claw foot.
• E4: The Wainscot Chair (1984-10-27) — Roy works with his daughter, Rachel, to create a child-size, 17th-century chair found in a book by Wallace Nutting.
• E5: Tool Boxes & Chests (1984-11-03) — Roy explores the contents of a recently purchased tool chest, trying to determine something of the original owner. He then shows how to recreate the chest itself.
• E6: Chip Carving (1984-11-10) — Mack Headley from Colonial Williamsburg visits the shop and demonstrates the chip carving techniques used to decorate furniture.
• E7: Good Fences (1984-11-17) — Roy looks at the details of early-American fences, including lightweight and portable fences used for sheep herding, garden fences and more substantial post and rail “fences” used
• E8: Kitchen Gifts (1984-11-24) — Roy shows you how to make some always-gift-appropriate and useful utensils for the kitchen including a rolling pin, heavy spoon, a collapsible drinking cup and more.
• E9: Raising the Shop (1984-12-01) — Roy pitches in with the raising of the frame-and-timber structure for Anderson’s Forge at Colonial Williamsburg.
• E10: Building a Boat (1984-12-08) — Roy builds a small rowboat using traditional tools and techniques.
• E11: Rittenshouse Hygrometer (1984-12-15) — After discussing how humidity affects different wood species, Roy makes a clever and simple late 18th-century hygrometer to measure the humidity in the shop.
• E12: Corner Cupboard (1984-12-22) — Roy recreates a classic pine corner cupboard.
• E13: Highchair (1984-12-29) — To celebrate his new nephew, Roy builds an 18th century baby’s high chair with rush seating.

Season 5

• E1: Rustic Rockers (1985-10-05) — Roy starts off the “Making Things From Nature” season by giving us some history of rustic furniture and walks through the steps necessary to make a Rustic Rocker.
• E2: Bark Bottoms (1985-10-12) — To finish up the Rustic Rocker, Roy takes us into the woods to gather hickory bark, and then heads into the shop to create the woven bark seat for the rocker.
• E3: Baby Cradle (1985-10-19) — Roy takes us into the shop to finish up a pilgrim-style oak cradle that he started, but never finished, reviewing the “tricky” parts necessary to create the whole project.
• E4: Chris' Workshop (1985-10-26) — We visit with a 14-year-old traditional woodworker who sells his wares (walking sticks, toys and more), to make more money to buy tools he can’t make for himself.
• E5: Iron Machine, Foot Power (1985-11-02) — A collector of cast-iron, foot-powered woodworking lathes and fret saws visits with Roy and they try out a number of the machines.
• E6: Hutch Table I (1985-11-09) — In part one, Roy starts the base of a classic early-American project that serves as a tilt-top table, chair and storage unit.
• E7: Hutch Table II (1985-11-16) — In part two, Roy finishes the base and completes the top of the early-American tilt-top table. He also shows how to make a traditional milk paint finish for the piece.
• E8: Iron Bloomery (1985-11-23) — Roy visits with David Harvey, a Blacksmith at Colonial Williamsburg, and learns how to turn bog ore into a woodworking chisel.
• E9: Berry Buckets, Sussex Trugs and Bark Sheaths (1985-11-30) — Roy shows how to create three projects that are created directly from trees and bark, with very little refinement.
• E10: Wheelwright (1985-12-07) — We head back to Colonial Williamsburg where Roy visits with master wheelwright Dan Stebbins to discover the mysteries and realities of making wheels for early American wagons and c
• E11: Music Mill (1985-12-14) — Roy makes a six-note music mill from wine bottles that is powered by hand crank (but can also be powered by a water wheel).
• E12: Secrets From the Cabinet Shop (1985-12-21) — Roy travels back to visit with master cabinetmaker Mack Headley at the Anthony Hay shop at Colonial Williamsburg. He shares some of the secrets that were standard fare for 18th cen
• E13: A Glass Act (1985-12-28) — Sash joinery, or making windows, is the ultimate test of organizational skills, and Roy takes us through the many steps and details that must align to make a good window.

Season 6

• E1: Turning of the Screw — Traditional woodworking required making much of your own tools and machinery, and the wooden screw is a major component in those. Roy looks at the making of wooden screws for use i
• E2: That Old Spoon Carver — Roy visits with expert spoon carver Roger Sandstrom to talk technique, wood selection and more about carving spoons and treenware.
• E3: Don't Crush That Bookstand, Hand Me the Pliers — Roy tackles creating a classic Wooden Pliers whittled from a single piece of wood, and then expands the concept to a folding bookstand using similar joinery.
• E4: Folding Lathe — Roy shows how to build an 18th Century French lathe designed to fold up and store in the corner.
• E5: Jacobian Stool — We learn how to create the traditional joinery for a Jacobean stool.
• E6: Turning and Carving — Roy finishes the Jacobean stool by adding the turning and carving to the frame.
• E7: Things They'd Never Make for Themselves — We spend some quality time with Roy making small projects from scrap wood, including wooden ties, a pop gun, ado-nothing machine and a flying top.
• E8: Anderson's Forge — Roy travels to the John Anderson Forge at Colonial Williamsburg to look at how nails, hinges and tools were made in Colonial America.
• E9: Botetourt Chair — Roy takes a look at 18th Century woodworking details found in furniture from the Colonial Williamsburg cabinet shop.
• E10: Shaker Lap Desk — Build one of the classic 18th Century projects with Roy; a Shaker lap desk.
• E11: Rachel's Wagon — Roy walks through the steps required to build a wooden wagon for his daughters – but manages to have some fun himself.
• E12: Toolmaker's Art — Roy visits with Peter Ross at the Anderson Forge to look at 18th Century tool making, in particular, a gentlemen’s hatchet.
• E13: House Framing Doggie Style — Only the best for Roy’s pooch, Grit: a brick and Tudor framed doghouse is this episode’s project.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many seasons does The Woodwright's Shop have? 37 season(s) with 480 episodes.

Where can I watch The Woodwright's Shop? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.