Season 6

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 in the shop.

Roy visits with expert spoon carver Roger Sandstrom to talk technique, wood selection and more about carving spoons and treenware.

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.

Roy shows how to build an 18th Century French lathe designed to fold up and store in the corner.

We learn how to create the traditional joinery for a Jacobean stool.

Roy finishes the Jacobean stool by adding the turning and carving to the frame.

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.

Roy travels to the John Anderson Forge at Colonial Williamsburg to look at how nails, hinges and tools were made in Colonial America.

Roy takes a look at 18th Century woodworking details found in furniture from the Colonial Williamsburg cabinet shop.

Build one of the classic 18th Century projects with Roy; a Shaker lap desk.

Roy walks through the steps required to build a wooden wagon for his daughters – but manages to have some fun himself.

Roy visits with Peter Ross at the Anderson Forge to look at 18th Century tool making, in particular, a gentlemen’s hatchet.

Only the best for Roy’s pooch, Grit: a brick and Tudor framed doghouse is this episode’s project.