October 3, 1998
Learn simple box dovetails and create some shop characters that can hang out inside.
October 10, 1998
Dress up a small cedar box with a variety of chip carving designs.
October 17, 1998
Roy makes a walnut stick chair and a pine slab chair perfectly sized for children.
October 24, 1998
Learn the details to add a hickory bark seat to a child’s chair.
October 31, 1998
Roy draws on poetry from the 1400s to explain what tools were used by wrights of the day.
November 7, 1998
Build an improved version of Roy’s 20-year-old treadle lathe design — and it starts with scrap lumber!
November 14, 1998
A class on basket weaving? You bet! Weave a white oak basket with Roy.
November 21, 1998
Roy uses a red oak tool chest to illustrate a discussion on hand planes.
November 28, 1998
Learn to convert a treadle lathe into a treadle jigsaw.
December 5, 1998
Roy shows how to make a traditional Russian pecking-chicken toy.
December 12, 1998
Roy visits Old Salem, North Carolina, founded in the 1760s by the Moravians. Their craft lives on in the recreated town.
December 19, 1998
Learn to build a scaled-down German swinging cradle built with lapstrake construction.
December 26, 1998
Learn about the history and the early settlers of the Jamestown, Virginia settlement.