The Woodwright's Shop

The tools we use can be beautiful too! Roy shows you how to build beautiful saw horse.

Roy teams up with the old Welsh Bodger himself and together they demonstrate how to build a classic Welsh Stick Chair.

You can learn how to build a timeless relic from past generations of fine woodworkers in this episode, a Joiner’s Tool Box.

An endless “pencil” sharpener to make round tapered handles for rake, boat spars- and more.

Get down, get musical! Produce a wonderful old wind instrument from the Elizabethan era- the Krumhorn!

Join Roy at the annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival and learn how to build a timber-frame barn.

Make a mysterious puzzle mallet with a devilishly difficult dovetail that’s impossible to break!

Roy shows you how to find and restore traditional tools needed to do old time traditional woodworking.

Join Roy at the Anderson Forge in Colonial Williamsburg and see how to make a traditional cross garnet hinge.

Learn how to make “big” furniture by starting with scaled down versions.

Learn how to build a four-light Colonial window sash.

Roy visits the Gunsmith Shop at Colonial Williamsburg to see how 18th century flintlock rifles were made.

Watch Roy “spin the wheel” at the Cabinet shop in Colonial Williamsburg as they produce 18th century furniture the old fashioned way.