The Woodwright's Shop

Learn simple box dovetails and create some shop characters that can hang out inside.

Dress up a small cedar box with a variety of chip carving designs.

Roy makes a walnut stick chair and a pine slab chair perfectly sized for children.

Learn the details to add a hickory bark seat to a child’s chair.

Roy draws on poetry from the 1400s to explain what tools were used by wrights of the day.

Build an improved version of Roy’s 20-year-old treadle lathe design — and it starts with scrap lumber!

A class on basket weaving? You bet! Weave a white oak basket with Roy.

Roy uses a red oak tool chest to illustrate a discussion on hand planes.

Learn to convert a treadle lathe into a treadle jigsaw.

Roy shows how to make a traditional Russian pecking-chicken toy.

Roy visits Old Salem, North Carolina, founded in the 1760s by the Moravians. Their craft lives on in the recreated town.

Learn to build a scaled-down German swinging cradle built with lapstrake construction.

Learn about the history and the early settlers of the Jamestown, Virginia settlement.