4x1 - The Dominy Shop

January 22, 1984

Roy takes us on a tour the Dominy Shop at Winterthur Museum. The shop holds the tools and shop items used by three generations of craftsman from 1750-1850.

4x2 - A Spring Pole Lathe

January 22, 1984

Roy walks us through the steps to create a simple, but accurate and functional spring pole lathe.

4x3 - Ball & Claw Feet

January 22, 1984

Roy welcomes Wallace Gusler from Colonial Williamsburg, and he shows the process to create a cabriole leg with a ball and claw foot.

4x4 - The Wainscot Chair

January 22, 1984

Roy works with his daughter, Rachel, to create a child-size, 17th-century chair found in a book by Wallace Nutting.

4x5 - Tool Boxes & Chests

January 22, 1984

Roy explores the contents of a recently purchased tool chest, trying to determine something of the original owner. He then shows how to recreate the chest itself.

4x6 - Chip Carving

January 22, 1984

Mack Headley from Colonial Williamsburg visits the shop and demonstrates the chip carving techniques used to decorate furniture.

4x7 - Good Fences

January 22, 1984

Roy looks at the details of early-American fences, including lightweight and portable fences used for sheep herding, garden fences and more substantial post and rail “fences” used in forts built around 1620.

4x8 - Kitchen Gifts

January 22, 1984

Roy shows you how to make some always-gift-appropriate and useful utensils for the kitchen including a rolling pin, heavy spoon, a collapsible drinking cup and more.

4x10 - Building A Boat

January 22, 1984

4x11 - Rittenshouse Hygrometer

January 22, 1984

After discussing how humidity affects different wood species, Roy makes a clever and simple late 18th-century hygrometer to measure the humidity in the shop.

4x12 - Corner Cupboard

January 22, 1984

Roy recreates a classic pine corner cupboard.

4x13 - Highchair

January 22, 1984

To celebrate his new nephew, Roy builds an 18th century baby’s high chair with rush seating.