The Woodwright's Shop Season 33
The Woodwright's Shop is a traditional woodworking show hosted by Roy Underhill on the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States. It is one of the longest running "how to" shows on PBS. Since its debut in 1979, the show has aired over 400 episodes. The first two seasons were broadcast only on public TV in North Carolina; the season numbering was restarted when the show went national in 1981. It is still filmed at the UNC-TV studios in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
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The Woodwright's Shop
1981 / TV-GThe Woodwright's Shop is a traditional woodworking show hosted by Roy Underhill on the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States. It is one of the longest running "how to" shows on PBS. Since its debut in 1979, the show has aired over 400 episodes. The first two seasons were broadcast only on public TV in North Carolina; the season numbering was restarted when the show went national in 1981. It is still filmed at the UNC-TV studios in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
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The Woodwright's Shop Season 33 Full Episode Guide
With ash head and hickory handle, Roy shows how to make a proper joiner's mallet for the ages.
Learn to make the simple and useful Dutch tool chest with its characteristic 30-degree slanted lid.
Chris Schwarz shows Roy how to measure up with an English try square based on the examples in the famous Benjamin Seaton tool chest.
Master blacksmith Peter Ross shows how to forge iron hinges and locks from the earliest days of the American experience.
A master joiner shows Roy how to make and fit the beveled panels and storage till into a framed chest from the Pilgrim era.
The master joiner of Plimoth Plantation shows how to frame a small, mortised, and tenoned chest in the old English style.
Roy attempts to replace a chest of molding planes with one complex metal contraption
Using giant model rip and crosscut saws, Roy demonstrates how to correctly sharpen handsaws.
Roy duplicates the beveled bridle joints and chamfered chops of an old saw-sharpening vise.
Classical carver Mary May provides a lesson on woodcarving and a proper rebuke for edge tool abuse!
Roy Underhill demonstrates how to cut bead moldings with hand planes for corners that look sharp and last longer.
The miter-clamped breadboard end makes a broad desktop that always stays flat.
Give your butt joints a break with the tenons and dovetails that connect this pine standing desk from Pennsylvania.