About this season
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.
Episodes (13)
1. Rachell's Standing Desk PT. 1
Aired 21 September 2013
Give your butt joints a break with the tenons and dovetails that connect this pine standing desk from Pennsylvania.
2. Rachell's Standing Desk PT. 2
Aired 28 September 2013
The miter-clamped breadboard end makes a broad desktop that always stays flat.
3. The Venerable Bead
Aired 5 October 2013
Roy Underhill demonstrates how to cut bead moldings with hand planes for corners that look sharp and last longer.
4. Carving Away With Mary May
Aired 12 October 2013
Classical carver Mary May provides a lesson on woodcarving and a proper rebuke for edge tool abuse!
5. Swinging Saw Vise
Aired 19 October 2013
Roy duplicates the beveled bridle joints and chamfered chops of an old saw-sharpening vise.
6. Sharpen That Saw!
Aired 26 October 2013
Using giant model rip and crosscut saws, Roy demonstrates how to correctly sharpen handsaws.
7. Combination Planes
Aired 2 November 2013
Roy attempts to replace a chest of molding planes with one complex metal contraption
8. Joined Chest With Peter Follansbee
Aired 9 November 2013
The master joiner of Plimoth Plantation shows how to frame a small, mortised, and tenoned chest in the old English style.
9. Paneled Chest With Peter Follansbee
Aired 16 November 2013
A master joiner shows Roy how to make and fit the beveled panels and storage till into a framed chest from the Pilgrim era.
10. Early Iron With Peter Ross
Aired 23 November 2013
Master blacksmith Peter Ross shows how to forge iron hinges and locks from the earliest days of the American experience.
11. Try Square with Christopher Schwarz
Aired 30 November 2013
Chris Schwarz shows Roy how to measure up with an English try square based on the examples in the famous Benjamin Seaton tool chest.
12. Dutch Tool Chest with Christopher Schwarz
Aired 7 December 2013
Learn to make the simple and useful Dutch tool chest with its characteristic 30-degree slanted lid.
13. Big Ash Mallet!
Aired 14 December 2013
With ash head and hickory handle, Roy shows how to make a proper joiner's mallet for the ages.