The Woodwright's Shop

Roy visits a recreated Celtic village in Wales, looking at Welsh woodworking including building construction, clog making and traditional carved Welsh love spoons.

Learn to build Roy’s iconic carpenter’s tool tote.

Roy looks at Irish woodworking, including houses, harps, caravans and traditional ship-building techniques.

Learn to build a sailor’s sea chest with beveled through dovetails.

Roy builds a stool starting with splitting and riving the green wood and ending with a woven-bark seat.

Learn the steps to build a standing embroidery hoop large enough to handle embroidery on a quilt.

Roy builds a scaled model of a Welsh cruck-frame barn, teaching the woodworking principals of timber framing.

Create a clever wood lock-and-key door set in the shop with Roy.

Roy builds a traditional single-drawer Shaker sewing stand.

Learn the benefits and uses of frame-and-panel construction and the joinery steps to create a frame-and-panel door.

Roy visits Colonial Williamsburg to view their exhibit of 1,500 eighteenth-century woodworking tools.

Watch a traditional woodworking tool –a drawknife –forged using historically accurate techniques.

Learn the steps used to smith a Suffolk door latch used during colonial times.