Episodes
1. Taming the Timber Bench
September 19, 2014
Your legs will stay tight in this classic German carpenter’s bench built with stopped sliding dovetails.
2. Pinch Rods and Squeezy Blocks
September 27, 2014
This pair of sliding diagonal rods with copper collars will help you get your chests square and your dovetails tight.
3. Tapered Tail Tripod Table 1
October 2, 2014
Walnut legs riven from the log begin this table inspired by the Dominy workshops.
4. Tapered Tail Tripod Table 2
October 11, 2014
A walnut burl top and tricky turning makes tapered dovetails for a three-legged table.
5. Viceless Devices
October 18, 2014
From the holdfast to the birdsmouth, Roy explores wondrous ways to grip the grain and rediscovers and old trick from a rare book.
6. Daring Diagonal Dovetails
October 25, 2014
Learn to cut the rising diagonal dovetail for corners that are stronger and striking, no matter how you look at them.
7. Shop Class Tabouret
November 1, 2014
The old shop-class plant stand joined with half-laps and dowels teaches us to pay attention to the grain, not just the machine.
8. Campaign Furniture
November 8, 2014
Christopher Schwarz shows the ins and outs of Campaign furniture made for travel to the far-flung reaches of the Empire.
9. Fitting Brass
November 15, 2014
Chris Schwarz shows how to fit brass corners and hardware flush with the surfaces of Campaign furniture.
10. The Crotch and the Horse
November 22, 2014
An old shaving horse from the Virginia mountains demonstrates that the natural shapes in timber make the strongest wooden construction.
11. Dovetail Saw
December 6, 2014
Tom Calisto joins Roy to make a brass-backed hand saw perfect for the finest dovetails or the toughest tenons.
12. Tempered Steel
December 13, 2014
Blacksmith Peter Ross shows how to forge, weld, harden and temper tool steel for cutting edges that stay sharp longer.
