PBS - Woodwright's Shop: Schedule

21st PBS Season

The Woodwright's Shop With Roy Underhill celebrates three centuries of American woodworking with adventures to the Smithsonian Institution and Colonial Williamsburg. From the toolboxes and sawhorses of the 1940s to the furniture and flintlocks of the colonial craftsmen, we travel through time to explore the very best of hand tool tradition and technique.

2101 The Sawhorse
How to produce a practically perfect sawhorse for the professional or the putterer using plenty of plausible permutations of pine polygons.

2102 Welsh Chair Bodger Don Weber
Build a brilliant base for your bottom using basic badgering, boiling, bending and boring in the wonderful Welsh way of working wood.

2103 Toolbox From the 1940s
This custom case for the carpenter will keep your saws safe, your planes present, your rulers reliable and your hammers healthy.

2104 Rounder Plane
This preposterous plane is loosely like a lathe but turns ‘round the timber to shave the stoutest stave into a dainty dowel.

2105 Walnut Krumhorn
Make this medieval music marvel that you play like a recorder, though it looks out of order, because after you turn it true, the bottom gets bored and bent.

2106 Timber Frame at the Folklife Festival
Help restore and raise a timber barn at the Smithsonian in Washington using augers and adzes to abolish ages of architectural abuse. (Taped in Washington, DC, on the Mall.)

2107 Impossible Joints
This dandy dovetail daunts in its devilish dimensions and demands dexterity to deliver, but delights doubters with the dumbness of its design.

2108 Fools for Tools
Find and fix old tools and other follies foraging from forsaken farms and factories to furnish your own fabulous facility for furniture fabrication. (field and studio)

2109 Blacksmith Hinges
How to hammer hardy hardware to handle a historic house, hasp a humble hovel, or hinge a huge hopper while hewing to historic hierarchies and harmonies. (Taped in Colonial Williamsburg.)

2110Tiny Furniture
Make chairs for children and dolls that deserve dauntless design, principles preserved and lessons learned from the larger legacy of full-sized furnishings.

2111 Window From Williamsburg
Present your panes in this superior sash derived from designs developed by cautious Colonial carpenters. (guest in shop)

2112 Flintlock Gunsmith
Watch Williamsburg workers wrest a wonderful watchwork weapon of walnut and wrought steel to wound a wascally wabbit or worrisome wedcoat. (Taped in Colonial Williamsburg)

2113 Colonial Tablemaker
Learn tricks of Williamsburg cabinetmakers as they tenon trestles and turn tops to transform timbers into tasteful traditional tables. (Taped in Colonial Williamsburg)