Roy Underhill
Himself - Host
The Woodwright's Shop (1981)
Season 14
The Woodwright's Shop is a traditional woodworking show hosted by Roy Underhill on the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States. It is one of the longest running "how to" shows on PBS. Since its debut in 1979, the show has aired over 400 episodes. The first two seasons were broadcast only on public TV in North Carolina; the season numbering was restarted when the show went national in 1981. It is still filmed at the UNC-TV studios in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Released Jan. 1, 1981
Episode 27 min
2+
Genres: Reality, Reality TV
Keywords: tmdb.how-to, tmdb.woodworking, imdb.business-and-occupation-reality-tv, imdb.apostrophe-in-title, imdb.three-word-title, imdb.non-fiction
Watch Providers: PBS
Production Companies: UNC-TV
Network: PBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S14E1 - Woodworkers of the Red Dragon
Roy visits a recreated Celtic village in Wales, looking at Welsh woodworking including building construction, clog making and traditional carved Welsh love spoons.
Oct. 1, 1994, midnight
S14E2 - The Carpenter's Tool Box
Learn to build Roy’s iconic carpenter’s tool tote.
Oct. 8, 1994, midnight
S14E3 - Ancient Woodcraft of Ireland
Roy looks at Irish woodworking, including houses, harps, caravans and traditional ship-building techniques.
Oct. 15, 1994, midnight
S14E4 - A Sailor's Sea Chest
Learn to build a sailor’s sea chest with beveled through dovetails.
Oct. 22, 1994, midnight
S14E5 - Oak High Stool with a Hickory Bark Seat
Roy builds a stool starting with splitting and riving the green wood and ending with a woven-bark seat.
Oct. 29, 1994, midnight
S14E6 - Standing Embroidery Shop
Learn the steps to build a standing embroidery hoop large enough to handle embroidery on a quilt.
Nov. 5, 1994, midnight
S14E7 - The Timber-Frame House
Roy builds a scaled model of a Welsh cruck-frame barn, teaching the woodworking principals of timber framing.
Nov. 12, 1994, midnight
S14E8 - Wooden Lock and Key
Create a clever wood lock-and-key door set in the shop with Roy.
Nov. 19, 1994, midnight
S14E9 - Shaker Sewing Stand
Roy builds a traditional single-drawer Shaker sewing stand.
Nov. 26, 1994, midnight
S14E10 - Panel-Frame Construction
Learn the benefits and uses of frame-and-panel construction and the joinery steps to create a frame-and-panel door.
Dec. 3, 1994, midnight
S14E11 - Tools of the Eighteenth Century
Roy visits Colonial Williamsburg to view their exhibit of 1,500 eighteenth-century woodworking tools.
Dec. 10, 1994, midnight
S14E12 - The Williamsburg Blacksmiths
Watch a traditional woodworking tool –a drawknife –forged using historically accurate techniques.
Dec. 17, 1994, midnight
S14E13 - Blacksmiths Forge Ahead!
Learn the steps used to smith a Suffolk door latch used during colonial times.
Dec. 24, 1994, midnight
PBS
27 min/ep
27 min
Jan. 1, 1981
Dec. 9, 2017, midnight
Returning Series
TV-G / 2+
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