Charismatic and innovative, woodworker Roy Underhill has been educating and entertaining people with his unrivaled knowledge of traditional hand tools and woodworking techniques for more than 30 years. This video download gives 13 episodes with Roy, including:
- Inner Woodworking - In this first episode of Season Three, Roy takes time out to look at how wood grows, how it is worked by the different tools in the Woodwright's shop, and gives us a look at projects and topics for the season.
- Workbench Pt. 1 - Roy hand-crafts the frame for a massive, classic workbench using pegged and keyed mortise-and-tenon construction.
- Workbench Pt. 2 - Roy points out some finishing details on the frame of the bench, then moves on to completing the bench top including adding a board hook and setting up holes for bench dogs and holdfasts.
- Cooper's Bucket - With some help a couple of coopers from Colonial Williamsburg, Roy shows the steps to creating a cooper's bucket.
- Blanket Chest - Roy builds a classic, nailed-together, six-board blanket chest with an interior till.
- Simple Gifts - Roy shows us how to build three simple gift projects including a flapping duck toy, a small pine knock-down bench and a wooden egg beater.
- Whimsy Diddling - A few minutes to kill? Roy shows how to make the quintessential mountain folk toy, the Gee Haw Whimmey Diddle and also a Willow Whistle. He also shows some museum pieces of carved whimsy.
- Furniture Carving - Roy welcomes Wallace Gusler from Colonial Williamsburg to take a close look at the techniques and tools required for carved furniture in the 18th-Century style.
- Whetstone Quarry - Roy takes us through the geological history of whetstones for sharpening tools. He takes us on a trip to find the rough stone and how to create your own stones (as well as some sharpening tips).
- The Gunsmith - Roy visits with gunsmith Gary Brumfield of Colonial Williamsburg and gives us a fascinating look at the hand-crafted steps necessary to create an 18th-Century rifle -- lock, stock and barrel.
- Wood for the Weaver - This episode focuses on wooden accessories used by traditional weavers in the 18th-Century including spinning wheels, clock reels, niddy noddys and Roy makes a swift and a tape loom.
- The Luthier - George Wilson from at Colonial Williamsburg shows Roy what it took to create an 18th-Century violin, from wood to fittings.
- The Basketmakers - Roy Black and Robert Watson from Colonial Williamsburg show Roy how to make round-bottom and flat-bottom white oak baskets, starting from a log and using only traditional tools.