The Woodwright's Shop(1981)

Name: The Woodwright's Shop
Genre: Reality
Released: 1981-01-01
Rating: 9
Cast: Roy Underhill

★ 9.0(5)27m480 episodesReturning Series

Reality

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.

First aired:: 1981-01-01
Country:: US
Network:: PBS

Episodes

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1. Bentwood Boxes of the Northwest Coast
1992-10-03
Roy visits Gregg Blomberg and explores woodworking traditions of the Pacific Northwest.
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2. A Civil War Quilting Frame
1992-10-10
Roy is joined by his wife, Jane, to build a traditional quilting frame.
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3. African Chair From the Ivory Coast
1992-10-17
Roy and his friend Robert Watson make a “man’s chair” using tools from the Ivory Coast of Africa.
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4. Hispanic Furniture-Making
1992-10-24
Roy learns about northern New Mexico woodworking on the Santa Fe Trail.
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5. Colonial Tape Loom
1992-10-31
Roy begins making a tiny tape loom, used for making decorative fabric.
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6. Dovetailing a Loom Box
1992-11-07
Roy finishes the tape loom by making a beautiful box for it with dovetails and turned columns.
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7. A Colonial Standing Desk
1992-11-14
Roy makes a standing desk using mortise-and-tenon and tongue-and-groove joints.
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8. Banding Together
1992-11-21
Instrument maker Marcus Hanson makes inlay banding with Roy at the Anthony Hay Cabinet Shop.
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9. The Art of Finishing
1992-11-28
Roy returns to the Anthony Hay Cabinet Shop to learn finishing.
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10. Fifteen Tools From a Dead Man's Chest
1992-12-05
Roy restores the tools found in an antique chest.
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11. A Pilgrim Chest of Oak
1992-12-12
Roy makes a Spanish pilgrim’s chest from New Mexico.
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12. Woodcarvers of the Sacred
1992-12-19
Returning to New Mexico once again, Roy explores religious carving and woodworking in the mountains north of Santa Fe.
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13. Moravian Chair
1992-12-26
Roy makes a Moravian chair that’s reinforced with dovetailed battens, which make this small piece extraordinarily strong.