The Woodwright's Shop Season 36, Episode 9: Double Casement Window

Van Gogh's Chair

The Season 36 premiere shows how to make a chair similar to the one portrayed in Vincent Van Gogh's masterpiece.

Sliding Lid Boxes

Roy shows how to create easy-to-make wooden gift boxes with mitered corners and lids that slide in grooves.

Carved Oak Desk Box

Master of Pilgrim-century furniture Peter Follansbee joins Roy to make a slope-lidded, carved box from carved white and red oak.

Waving Arm Whirligigs

Figures from history including Benjamin Franklin and Muhammad Ali inspire Roy’s new line of waving arm wooden whirlygigs.

Wedged Tusk Tenon

Roy and workbench builder Will Myers test out the strength of the classic wedged mortise and tenon joint for take-apart furniture.

Swedish Shrink Box

Woodworker Peter Follansbee shows Roy Underhill how to make Swedish shrink boxes from hollowed wood with inserted bottoms.

Saw Like a Butterfly!

The great poet-athlete Muhammad Ali inspires the best lessons in woodworking – Saw Like a Butterfly, Plane Like a Bee!

Firewood Carrier

Chair-maker Elia Bizzarri shows Roy how to make a split oak firewood carrier inspired by the classic wooden harvest rake.

Roman Work Bench

Christopher Schwarz & Roy unlocks the secrets of the ancient Roman woodworker’s bench.

Staked Furniture

A plank with inserted legs becomes a chair, a table, or a bench...

Tool Chest Hinges & Latch

Tool Chest Hinges & Latch

26 min

Tool Chest from Bristol

Roy shows how to dovetail a stout, sloped top tool chest.

26 min