As Roy Underhill initiated his 37th season on PBS. This craftsman-historian has been teaching the practical methods of woodworking, using methods from the Roman Empire to the industrial revolution. He has presented how-to with and without...
As Roy Underhill initiated his 37th season on PBS. This craftsman-historian has been teaching the practical methods of woodworking, using methods from the Roman Empire to the industrial revolution. He has presented how-to with and without guests. Through the years he has covered smith works for making tools, making wood cookie molds, foot operated lathes, wagon wheels, posted framework, and more.
Aired: Oct 3, 1998Learn simple box dovetails and create some shop characters that can hang out ...
Aired: Oct 10, 1998Dress up a small cedar box with a variety of chip carving designs.
Aired: Oct 17, 1998Roy makes a walnut stick chair and a pine slab chair perfectly sized for chil...
Aired: Oct 24, 1998Learn the details to add a hickory bark seat to a child’s chair.
5. Debate of the Carpenter's Tools
Aired: Oct 31, 1998Roy draws on poetry from the 1400s to explain what tools were used by wrights...
Aired: Nov 7, 1998Build an improved version of Roy’s 20-year-old treadle lathe design — and it ...
Aired: Nov 14, 1998A class on basket weaving? You bet! Weave a white oak basket with Roy.
Aired: Nov 21, 1998Roy uses a red oak tool chest to illustrate a discussion on hand planes.
Aired: Nov 28, 1998Learn to convert a treadle lathe into a treadle jigsaw.
Aired: Dec 5, 1998Roy shows how to make a traditional Russian pecking-chicken toy.
11. Try Square with Christopher Schwarz
Aired: Dec 12, 1998Roy visits Old Salem, North Carolina, founded in the 1760s by the Moravians. ...
12. Dutch Tool Chest with Christopher Schwarz
Aired: Dec 19, 1998Learn to build a scaled-down German swinging cradle built with lapstrake cons...
Aired: Dec 26, 1998Learn about the history and the early settlers of the Jamestown, Virginia set...
Appearances
Current Status: Returning Series
Network: PBS
Production Country: United States
Genres:Reality-TV
