The Woodwright's Shop (1981)

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.

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Season 1

Season 1

Season 2

Season 2

Season 3

Season 3

Season 4

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Season 5

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Season 6

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Season 7

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Season 8

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Season 12

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Season 13

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Season 15

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Season 29

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Season 30

Season 30

Season 31

Season 31

Season 32

Season 32

Season 33

Season 33

Season 34

Season 34

Season 35

Season 35

Season 36

Season 36

Season 37

Season 37

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    Maul & glut

  • 1x2

    Shaving horse

  • 1x3

    Shaving horse part 2

  • 1x4

    Hay rake

  • 1x5

    Lathes

  • 1x6

    Rocking chair

  • 1x7

    Rocking chair part 2

  • 1x8

    Log cabin

  • 1x9

    Timberframe construction

  • 1x10

    Dough bowls and pitch forks

  • 1x11

    Blacksmithing

  • 1x12

    Panel frame and dovetail

  • 1x13

    Colonial williamsburg

Episodes season 2

  • 2x1

    Getting a grip on it

  • 2x2

    Candle stand

  • 2x3

    Plane truth, version 1

  • 2x4

    Plane truth, version 2

  • 2x5

    Getting into drawers

  • 2x6

    Finding and fixing

  • 2x7

    Cutting your teeth

  • 2x8

    While the iron's hot

  • 2x9

    Straight and narrow

  • 2x10

    Vernacular sash

  • 2x11

    Woodwright at sea

  • 2x12

    Tale of two toys

Episodes season 3

  • 3x1

    Inner woodworking

  • 3x2

    Workbench

  • 3x3

    Cooper’s bucket

  • 3x4

    Blanket chest

  • 3x5

    Simple gifts

  • 3x6

    Whimsy diddling

  • 3x7

    Furniture carving

  • 3x8

    Whetstone quarry

  • 3x9

    The gunsmith

  • 3x10

    Wood for the weaver

  • 3x11

    The luthier

  • 3x12

    Inner woodworking

  • 3x13

    The basket makers

Episodes season 4

  • 4x1

    The dominy shop

  • 4x2

    A spring pole lathe

  • 4x3

    Ball & claw feet

  • 4x4

    The wainscot chair

  • 4x5

    Tool boxes & chests

  • 4x6

    Chip carving

  • 4x7

    Good fences

  • 4x8

    Kitchen gifts

  • 4x9

    Raising the shop

  • 4x10

    Building a boat

  • 4x11

    Rittenshouse hygrometer

  • 4x12

    Corner cupboard

  • 4x13

    Highchair

Episodes season 5

  • 5x1

    Rustic rockers

  • 5x2

    Bark bottoms

  • 5x3

    Baby cradle

  • 5x4

    Chris' workshop

  • 5x5

    Iron machine, foot power

  • 5x6

    Hutch table i

  • 5x7

    Hutch table ii

  • 5x8

    Iron bloomery

  • 5x9

    Berry buckets, sussex trugs and bark sheaths

  • 5x10

    Wheelwright

  • 5x11

    Music mill

  • 5x12

    Secrets from the cabinet shop

  • 5x13

    A glass act

Episodes season 6

  • 6x1

    Turning of the screw

  • 6x2

    That old spoon carver

  • 6x3

    Don't crush that bookstand, hand me the pliers

  • 6x4

    Folding lathe

  • 6x5

    Jacobian stool

  • 6x6

    Turning and carving

  • 6x7

    Things they'd never make for themselves

  • 6x8

    Anderson's forge

  • 6x9

    Botetourt chair

  • 6x10

    Shaker lap desk

  • 6x11

    Rachel's wagon

  • 6x12

    Toolmaker's art

  • 6x13

    House framing doggie style

Episodes season 7

  • 7x1

    Noveltails

  • 7x2

    Longer and stronger

  • 7x3

    Country comfort

  • 7x4

    Shaker boxes

  • 7x5

    Bookcaseology

  • 7x6

    Woodwork, needlework

  • 7x7

    Whirligigs

  • 7x8

    Felling and hauling

  • 7x9

    Bramble work

  • 7x10

    Farmwood

  • 7x11

    Old south homestead

  • 7x12

    Gameboards

  • 7x13

    Woodcut printing

Episodes season 8

  • 8x1

    Jefferson's ladder

  • 8x2

    Boxwood recorder

  • 8x3

    Beginning the four harness loom

  • 8x4

    Finishing the four harness loom

  • 8x5

    Rosebud

  • 8x6

    Workbenches for everyone

  • 8x7

    Folk toys for little folks

  • 8x8

    Making the appalachian dulcimer

  • 8x9

    Folding folk chairs

  • 8x10

    English woodcraft

  • 8x11

    African legacy

  • 8x12

    Turning the tables at the tavern

  • 8x13

    Tankard from the mary rose

Episodes season 9

  • 9x1

    Making a butterfly table

  • 9x2

    Dovetailing drawers

  • 9x3

    Making the dropleaf rule joint

  • 9x4

    Dancing toys

  • 9x5

    Make gypsy willow chairs

  • 9x6

    Tinsmithing for fun and profit

  • 9x7

    Boxes without topses

  • 9x8

    Order in the court

  • 9x9

    Bricks without straw

  • 9x10

    Log cabin building

  • 9x11

    Log cabin building

  • 9x12

    Log cabin building

  • 9x13

    Marquetry: painting with wood

Episodes season 10

  • 10x1

    Make this rocking horse!

  • 10x2

    Beat your ash basketry

  • 10x3

    Make a revolving bookcase

  • 10x4

    Timber building in franconia

  • 10x5

    Secrets of german woodcraft

  • 10x6

    Make a garden gate

  • 10x7

    Hooks, crooks and walking sticks

  • 10x8

    Make a music mill from bali

  • 10x9

    Dovetailing in the tool chest

  • 10x10

    As the wood turns

  • 10x11

    Boat to build with the kids

  • 10x12

    Rake's progress

  • 10x13

    Making wooden shoes

Episodes season 11

  • 11x1

    Make a chair

  • 11x2

    Rollin' on the rocker

  • 11x3

    Splittin' and sittin'

  • 11x4

    Hewing a dough bowl

  • 11x5

    Wood-turning tricks

  • 11x6

    Archer's bow

  • 11x7

    Four-poster bed

  • 11x8

    Blacksmith of williamsburg

  • 11x9

    Williamsburg woodcraft

  • 11x10

    Woodworker's grab bag

  • 11x11

    Thomas jefferson, woodworker

  • 11x12

    Dovetailed bookcases

  • 11x13

    Japanese woodcrafter

Episodes season 12

  • 12x1

    Bentwood boxes of the northwest coast

  • 12x2

    A civil war quilting frame

  • 12x3

    African chair from the ivory coast

  • 12x4

    Hispanic furniture-making

  • 12x5

    Colonial tape loom

  • 12x6

    Dovetailing a loom box

  • 12x7

    A colonial standing desk

  • 12x8

    Banding together

  • 12x9

    The art of finishing

  • 12x10

    Fifteen tools from a dead man's chest

  • 12x11

    A pilgrim chest of oak

  • 12x12

    Woodcarvers of the sacred

  • 12x13

    Moravian chair

Episodes season 13

  • 13x1

    English walnut music stand

  • 13x2

    Fair and square

  • 13x3

    Fireplace bellows

  • 13x4

    Hickory pitchfork

  • 13x5

    Continental army canteen

  • 13x6

    Make a windsor chair (part 1)

  • 13x7

    Make a windsor chair (part 2)

  • 13x8

    Make a windsor chair (part 3)

  • 13x9

    The geddy foundry of williamsburg

  • 13x10

    Crazy wooden things for kids to make

  • 13x11

    Spiral turning and xylophone tones

  • 13x12

    Norwegian wood

  • 13x13

    Timber building in the land of the midnight sun

Episodes season 14

  • 14x1

    Woodworkers of the red dragon

  • 14x2

    The carpenter's tool box

  • 14x3

    Ancient woodcraft of ireland

  • 14x4

    A sailor's sea chest

  • 14x5

    Oak high stool with a hickory bark seat

  • 14x6

    Standing embroidery shop

  • 14x7

    The timber-frame house

  • 14x8

    Wooden lock and key

  • 14x9

    Shaker sewing stand

  • 14x10

    Panel-frame construction

  • 14x11

    Tools of the eighteenth century

  • 14x12

    The williamsburg blacksmiths

  • 14x13

    Blacksmiths forge ahead!

Episodes season 15

  • 15x1

    Sharpening tools

  • 15x2

    Jefferson's walking-stick-chair

  • 15x3

    Chisels, gouges and mallets

  • 15x4

    Trestle table

  • 15x5

    Wooden schoop shovel & spoons

  • 15x6

    The wooden boat school

  • 15x7

    The marionette makers

  • 15x8

    Folding workbench (part 1)

  • 15x9

    Folding workbench (part 2)

  • 15x10

    Candle stick maker

  • 15x11

    Adirondack woodcraft

  • 15x12

    Williamsburg trunk maker

  • 15x13

    Climbing a colonial steeple

Episodes season 16

  • 16x1

    Arts and crafts bookcase

  • 16x2

    The secret dovetailed box

  • 16x3

    Wood inlay

  • 16x4

    The giant chisels of gaul

  • 16x5

    Roll top cabinetry

  • 16x6

    African drum

  • 16x7

    Woodcraft of alsace, france

  • 16x8

    Comb-back windsor chair, part 1

  • 16x9

    Comb-back windsor chair, part 2

  • 16x10

    Sand-powered wooden toys

  • 16x11

    Cutting the knuckle-hinge joint

  • 16x12

    Making wooden screws

  • 16x13

    The pencil people

Episodes season 17

  • 17x1

    Make your shaving horse

  • 17x2

    Whittling chains and ball in cage

  • 17x3

    Windsor high chair

  • 17x4

    Chinese bamboo chair

  • 17x5

    Shaker boxes

  • 17x6

    Panel-framed bench

  • 17x7

    Hanging bookcase

  • 17x8

    Window sash restoration

  • 17x9

    Wooden tea machine

  • 17x10

    Nuts to you

  • 17x11

    Hancock shaker village

  • 17x12

    Shaker side table

  • 17x13

    Woodworking in upper canada

Episodes season 18

  • 18x1

    Dovetailing a cedar box

  • 18x2

    Chip carving

  • 18x3

    Chairs for children

  • 18x4

    Bark and rustic work

  • 18x5

    Debate of the carpenter's tools

  • 18x6

    Treadle lathe

  • 18x7

    White oak basket

  • 18x8

    Wall tool chest

  • 18x9

    Woodworking gizmos

  • 18x10

    Traditional toys

  • 18x11

    Old salem

  • 18x12

    Swinging cradle from saxony

  • 18x13

    Jamestown woodworkers, 1607

Episodes season 19

  • 19x1

    Dovetailing little drawers

  • 19x2

    The yoke's on me

  • 19x3

    Making a tuckaway table

  • 19x4

    Lyle wheeler-chair and spinning wheel maker

  • 19x5

    David calvo-master woodcarver

  • 19x6

    Building the clipper amistad

  • 19x7

    Two old tool pioneers

  • 19x8

    Frank klausz-master cabinetmaker

  • 19x9

    Sharpen your saw

  • 19x10

    Wheeled toys in wood

  • 19x11

    Making the ladder/chair

  • 19x12

    Wayne barton-master chip carver

  • 19x13

    Bucketmaking for beginners

Episodes season 20

  • 20x1

    Lap desk

  • 20x2

    Turned corner chair

  • 20x3

    Banjo man george wunderlich

  • 20x4

    Writer's bookcase

  • 20x5

    Timber corner

  • 20x6

    Decoy carvers

  • 20x7

    Eastfield village

  • 20x8

    Marquetry master patrick edwards

  • 20x9

    In the blacksmith's shop

  • 20x10

    Toys that make noise

  • 20x11

    Carving with the cabinetmakers

  • 20x12

    Windsor chair

  • 20x13

    20th anniversary show

Episodes season 21

  • 21x1

    The sawhorse

  • 21x2

    Welsh chair bodger don weber

  • 21x3

    Toolbox from the 1940s

  • 21x4

    Rounder plane

  • 21x5

    Walnut krumhorn

  • 21x6

    Timber frame at the folklife festival

  • 21x7

    Impossible joints

  • 21x8

    Fools for tools

  • 21x9

    Blacksmith hinges

  • 21x10

    Tiny furniture

  • 21x11

    Window from williamsburg

  • 21x12

    Flintlock gunsmith

  • 21x13

    Colonial tablemaker

Episodes season 22

  • 22x1

    Dovetail a triangular box

  • 22x2

    Shaker work table

  • 22x3

    Craftsman wall cabinet

  • 22x4

    Scandinavian milking stool

  • 22x5

    Spill plane & book stand

  • 22x6

    Canadian cradle

  • 22x7

    Shutter dogs from the blacksmiths

  • 22x8

    Rustic furniture maker dan mack

  • 22x9

    Williamsburg wheelwright

  • 22x10

    Limberjacks & dancing dolls

  • 22x11

    Plymouth plantation woodworkers

  • 22x12

    The colonial carpenters

  • 22x13

    Craftsmen of old sturbridge village

Episodes season 23

  • 23x1

    The boy mechanic

  • 23x2

    Making the new workbench: part 1

  • 23x3

    Making the new workbench: part 2

  • 23x4

    Inlay with steve latta

  • 23x5

    Using planes

  • 23x6

    Roundabout chair

  • 23x7

    Carving with calvo

  • 23x8

    Woodcraft of the southern highlands

  • 23x9

    Woodcraft at conner prairie

  • 23x10

    The turning triangle table

  • 23x11

    Child's rocker & sliding dovetail stool

  • 23x12

    The first american woodworkers

  • 23x13

    Paneled cedar chest

Episodes season 24

  • 24x1

    Shaving horse

  • 24x2

    Tinsmithing with anne pederson

  • 24x3

    Acadian chair

  • 24x4

    White cooperage with norm pederson

  • 24x5

    The foot power lathe

  • 24x6

    Wooden thread cutter

  • 24x7

    Woodworking at the north house folk school

  • 24x8

    Turned & hewn bowls & spoons

  • 24x9

    Norwegian pram & snow skis with mark hansen

  • 24x10

    One piece woodworking

  • 24x11

    Turning chess pieces

  • 24x12

    Chess board & box

  • 24x13

    Inlaid legs with steve latta

Episodes season 25

  • 25x1

    Garden bench

  • 25x2

    Wooden puzzles

  • 25x3

    Jeff headley, cabinetmaker

  • 25x4

    The melencolia plane

  • 25x5

    Three chests of tools

  • 25x6

    Woodturning wisdom

  • 25x7

    Niddy noddy & weaver's swift

  • 25x8

    Cabinet workbench

  • 25x9

    Workbench doors & drawers

  • 25x10

    Nora hall: woodcarver

  • 25x11

    Country chair seats

  • 25x12

    The museum of appalachia

  • 25x13

    Restoring jefferson's & madison's homes

Episodes season 26

  • 26x1

    A ship in a bottle

  • 26x2

    Barley twist table, pt.1

  • 26x3

    Barley twist table, pt.2

  • 26x4

    Rustic chairs with skye gregson

  • 26x5

    Windsor highchair with curtis buchanan, pt 1

  • 26x6

    Windsor highchair with curtis buchanan, pt 2

  • 26x7

    The spirit of woodcraft

  • 26x8

    Japanese planes with john reed fox

  • 26x9

    An english garden wheelbarrow, pt 1

  • 26x10

    An english garden wheelbarrow, pt 2

  • 26x11

    Upholstering your seat

  • 26x12

    Old woodworking machines

  • 26x13

    The dovetail variations

Episodes season 27

  • 27x1

    Peter & the box

  • 27x2

    Ball & socket embroidery stand pt.1

  • 27x3

    Ball & socket embroidery stand pt.2

  • 27x4

    Screw box for wooden threads

  • 27x5

    French work bench, pt.1

  • 27x6

    French work bench, pt.2

  • 27x7

    Violin maker joe thrift

  • 27x8

    Candle box with secret drawer

  • 27x9

    Parallelogram plant stand

  • 27x10

    German woodcraft in america

  • 27x11

    Woodworking with tillers international

  • 27x12

    The sordid blacksmith

  • 27x13

    Henry ford’s museum village

Episodes season 28

  • 28x1

    The governor's poboy

  • 28x2

    Joiner's tool chest pt.1

  • 28x3

    Joiner's tool chest pt.2

  • 28x4

    Thomas jefferson's bookstand

  • 28x5

    Classical carving

  • 28x6

    File philosophy

  • 28x7

    A very boring program

  • 28x8

    Lumberjack fan carving

  • 28x9

    Animated wooden toys

  • 28x10

    Hammer veneer

  • 28x11

    Holly wood spectaculars

  • 28x12

    A viking tool chest

  • 28x13

    Woodworking in berea

Episodes season 29

  • 29x1

    Dovetailed grease pot

  • 29x2

    Secrets of the whirlygig

  • 29x3

    Shaker rocker frame

  • 29x4

    Shaker rocker seat

  • 29x5

    Mary may, woodcarver

  • 29x6

    Wood & water

  • 29x7

    Steam power sawmill

  • 29x8

    Harvard side table

  • 29x9

    A crutch in time

  • 29x10

    Hancock pedestal table

  • 29x11

    Brian boggs, chairmaker

  • 29x12

    Corner cupboard, part 1

  • 29x13

    Corner cupboard, part 2

Episodes season 30

  • 30x1

    Case of the corner cupboard

  • 30x2

    Making marvelous moldings

  • 30x3

    Mind over miter

  • 30x4

    The till in the tool chest

  • 30x5

    Continuous arm rocking chair (1)

  • 30x6

    Continuous arm rocking chair (2)

  • 30x7

    Who wrote the book of sloyd

  • 30x8

    The case for books

  • 30x9

    Sawing secrets

  • 30x10

    The tiny tool kit

  • 30x11

    Thomas day, cabinetmaker

  • 30x12

    Oak field gate

  • 30x13

    Field gate hinges

Episodes season 31

  • 31x1

    The roubo bookstand

  • 31x2

    As the saw turns

  • 31x3

    Hurray for hickory!

  • 31x4

    Painless panel doors

  • 31x5

    Hand plane essentials with chris schwarz

  • 31x6

    English layout square with chris schwarz

  • 31x7

    Elizabethan joint stool with peter follansbee

  • 31x8

    Carving swedish spoons with peter follansbee

  • 31x9

    Inlaid lettering with steve latta

  • 31x10

    Hammer veneering with steve latta

  • 31x11

    Iron work for timber work

  • 31x12

    Offset turning

  • 31x13

    Simple sash

Episodes season 32

  • 32x1

    Rise of the machines!

  • 32x2

    The eleven grooved box

  • 32x3

    Table joints rule!

  • 32x4

    The anarchist’s tool chest

  • 32x5

    Two screws for you!

  • 32x6

    Screw cuttin’ lathe

  • 32x7

    The troublesome triangle stool

  • 32x8

    Wretched ratchet reading rack

  • 32x9

    Raising panel-zona

  • 32x10

    Carving the camellia

  • 32x11

    Forging the hold fast

  • 32x12

    The enfield cupboard

  • 32x13

    The shaker bend

Episodes season 33

  • 33x1

    Rachell's standing desk pt. 1

  • 33x2

    Rachell's standing desk pt. 2

  • 33x3

    The venerable bead

  • 33x4

    Carving away with mary may

  • 33x5

    Swinging saw vise

  • 33x6

    Sharpen that saw!

  • 33x7

    Combination planes

  • 33x8

    Joined chest with peter follansbee

  • 33x9

    Paneled chest with peter follansbee

  • 33x10

    Early iron with peter ross

  • 33x11

    Try square with christopher schwarz

  • 33x12

    Dutch tool chest with christopher schwarz

  • 33x13

    Big ash mallet!

Episodes season 34

  • 34x1

    Taming the timber bench

  • 34x2

    Pinch rods and squeezy blocks

  • 34x3

    Tapered tail tripod table 1

  • 34x4

    Tapered tail tripod table 2

  • 34x5

    Viceless devices

  • 34x6

    Daring diagonal dovetails

  • 34x7

    Shop class tabouret

  • 34x8

    Campaign furniture

  • 34x9

    Fitting brass

  • 34x10

    The crotch and the horse

  • 34x11

    Dovetail saw

  • 34x12

    Tempered steel

  • 34x13

    Woodwright! - the musical

Episodes season 35

  • 35x1

    Rocky bentwood cradle i

  • 35x2

    Rocky bentwood cradle ii

  • 35x3

    Stamp out cookie carving!

  • 35x4

    Double drawer shaker table

  • 35x5

    Groovers and shakers

  • 35x6

    Turning shaker knobs

  • 35x7

    Cross cut conundrum

  • 35x8

    Bowl carving with peter follansbee

  • 35x9

    Hollows & rounds

  • 35x10

    Welsh stick chair i

  • 35x11

    Welsh stick chair ii

  • 35x12

    Tool smithing with peter ross

  • 35x13

    Plain pine box

Episodes season 36

  • 36x1

    Van gogh's chair

  • 36x2

    Sliding lid boxes

  • 36x3

    Carved oak desk box

  • 36x4

    Waving arm whirligigs

  • 36x5

    Wedged tusk tenon

  • 36x6

    Swedish shrink box

  • 36x7

    Saw like a butterfly!

  • 36x8

    Firewood carrier

  • 36x9

    Double casement window

  • 36x10

    Tool chest hinges & latch

  • 36x11

    Tool chest from bristol

  • 36x12

    Roman work bench

  • 36x13

    Staked furniture

Episodes season 37

  • 37x1

    Who wrote the book of sloyd?!

  • 37x2

    Holly wood spectaculars!

  • 37x3

    The roubo bookstand!

  • 37x4

    Rise of the machines

  • 37x5

    Hand plane essentials with chris schwarz

  • 37x6

    Big ash mallet!

  • 37x7

    Carving away with mary may

  • 37x8

    Dovetailed grease pot

  • 37x9

    Lumberjack fan carving

  • 37x10

    Forging the hold fast

  • 37x11

    Brian boggs, chairmaker

  • 37x12

    Combination planes 37th season

  • 37x13

    The venerable bead

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