The Woodwright's Shop

Classical carver Mary May gives Roy his first lessons on woodcarving – along with a proper rebuke for edge tool abuse!

Learn how to make gleaming surfaces, tight joints and crisp moldings through perfect planing.

A Michigan master of folk carving whittles white cedar fans and birds of a wooden feather.

Can you replace a chest of molding planes with one complex metal contraption? Roy pits monster planes against their wooden ancestors.

An Asheville artisan shows the secrets of the steam-bent green-wood chair.

Why do it by hand – when you can do it by foot? Roy Underhill gets caught up in up a bevy of century-old, foot-powered woodworking machines.

One piece of walnut makes a beautiful bookstand as we follow the formula of an old French master.

Sloyd, the late 19th century Swedish system of learning woodworking was intended to develop skilled, industrious, and morally upstanding citizens. We’ll give it a try, and hope it’s not too late for us!

Haul out the anvil and forge this essential bench tool! Blacksmith Peter Ross shows how to forge historical versions of this powerful gripper.

Steve Latta shows how to create decorative veneer patterns using oval engines, sharp knives, and patient perfectionism.

Make a proper joiner’s mallet and you’ll never be lonely again! With ash head and hickory handle, Roy shows how to make a mallet for the ages.

Roy Underhill shows how to cut bead moldings with hand planes for corners that look sharp and last longer.

Walnut and boxwood make a little box with a secret lock to stash the woodworker’s pal.

Roy Underhill makes a double, swinging casement window using wooden planes and premium pine.

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

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

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

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

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

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