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September 19, 2014

Season 34

01. Taming the Timber Bench

Your legs will stay tight in this classic German carpenter’s bench built with stopped sliding dovetails.

September 19, 2014

02. Pinch Rods and Squeezy Blocks

This pair of sliding diagonal rods with copper collars will help you get your chests square and your dovetails tight.

September 27, 2014

03. Tapered Tail Tripod Table 1

Walnut legs riven from the log begin this table inspired by the Dominy workshops.

October 2, 2014

04. Tapered Tail Tripod Table 2

A walnut burl top and tricky turning makes tapered dovetails for a three-legged table.

October 11, 2014

05. Viceless Devices

From the holdfast to the birdsmouth, Roy explores wondrous ways to grip the grain and rediscovers and old trick from a rare book.

October 18, 2014

06. Daring Diagonal Dovetails

Learn to cut the rising diagonal dovetail for corners that are stronger and striking, no matter how you look at them.

October 25, 2014

07. Shop Class Tabouret

The old shop-class plant stand joined with half-laps and dowels teaches us to pay attention to the grain, not just the machine.

November 1, 2014

08. Campaign Furniture

Christopher Schwarz shows the ins and outs of Campaign furniture made for travel to the far-flung reaches of the Empire.

November 8, 2014

09. Fitting Brass

Chris Schwarz shows how to fit brass corners and hardware flush with the surfaces of Campaign furniture.

November 15, 2014

10. The Crotch and the Horse

An old shaving horse from the Virginia mountains demonstrates that the natural shapes in timber make the strongest wooden construction.

November 22, 2014

11. Dovetail Saw

Tom Calisto joins Roy to make a brass-backed hand saw perfect for the finest dovetails or the toughest tenons.

December 6, 2014

12. Tempered Steel

Blacksmith Peter Ross shows how to forge, weld, harden and temper tool steel for cutting edges that stay sharp longer.

December 13, 2014

13. Woodwright! - The Musical

The Underhill Rose band joins Roy in the shop for a musical misadventure in the ways of the Woodwright.

December 20, 2014