The Woodwright's Shop

The Season 36 premiere shows how to make a chair similar to the one portrayed in Vincent Van Gogh's masterpiece.

Roy shows how to create easy-to-make wooden gift boxes with mitered corners and lids that slide in grooves.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Master blacksmith Peter Ross shows how to forge hinges and latches for a replica tool chest.

Roy shows how to dovetail a stout, sloped top tool chest that came from Bristol, England in 1900.

Christopher Schwarz joins Roy to unlock the secrets of the ancient Roman woodworker’s bench.

How a plank with inserted legs can become a chair, table or bench.