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The Woodwrights Shop | Offset Turning

For hardwood handles and padfoot legs, it's easy to turn ovals and offsets by measuring once and turning twice. Host Roy Underhill uses a pedal-powered lathe to demonstrate the technique.

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The Woodwrights Shop | Iron Work for Timber Work

Master blacksmith Peter Ross shows host Roy Underhill how to make spike dogs and cant hooks for log holding and handling. The ancient blacksmith's technique called "upsetting" makes it work.

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The Woodwrights Shop | Hammer Veneering with Steve Latta

Learn classic hammer veneering using the pull hammer to put the squeeze on fine finished furniture. It's a more than superficial look at the timeless technique taught by Steve Latta. Roy Underhill hosts.

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The Woodwrights Shop | Inlaid Lettering with Steve Latta

... by setting slender stringing into the slotted surface.

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The Woodwrights Shop | English Layout Square with Chris Schwarz

...brings beauty and utility to your workbench.

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The Woodwrights Shop | Hand Plane Essentials with Chris Schwarz

...and crisp moldings through perfect planning.

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The Woodwrights Shop | Painless Panel Doors

...we'll see how to make the stiles and rails of the classic raised panel door.

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The Woodwrights Shop | Hurray for Hickory!

...as we make wooden rakes and rounded reels from steam-bent stock.

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The Woodwrights Shop | As the Saw Turns

Build a beautiful bowsaw....

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The Woodwrights Shop | The Roubo Bookstand

as we follow the formula of an old French master.

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The Woodwrights Shop | African Chair of the Ivory Coast

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The Woodwrights Shop | African Legacy

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The Woodwrights Shop | The Basketmakers

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The Woodwrights Shop | Continuous Arm Rocking Chair, Part 1

Chairmaker Elia Bizzarri joins us to make this elegant and comfortable rocking chair. We will turn the legs and frame the seat in part one of this American classic.

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The Woodwrights Shop | The Case for Books

So many books, so little space! Say goodbye to cinderblocks and sagging shelves as you see how to cut the essential dado and sliding joints to build this better bookcase.

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The Woodwrights Shop | Sawing Secrets

Chris Schwarz, editor of Popular Woodworking Magazine, joins Roy to explore the three classes of English sawcuts. Chris reveals the devious French tenon cheat, and even shows us how to saw without a saw!

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The Woodwrights Shop | Who Wrote the Book of Sloyd?

Sloyd, the late 19th-century Swedish system of learning woodworking was intended to develop skilled, industrious and morally upstanding citizens. We will give it a try, and hope it is not too late for us.

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The Woodwrights Shop | Case of the Corner Cupboard

Long splined miters anyone? That is how you join the coffin-like case of this 18th-century corner cupboard. See how to make the special jigs to hand plane this crucial joint with precision and dignity.

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The Woodwrights Shop | The Till in the Tool Chest

We will delve into the drawers in search of the secret of an old tool chest. The quality of the tools shows that it belonged to a first class joiner back in the early 1800s, but the dovetail joints...

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The Woodwrights Shop | A Crutch in Time

Strong and resilient, wood has the lively lightness to support a leg when it''s lacking.

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