The Woodwright's Shop

Give your butt joints a break with the tenons and dovetails that connect this pine standing desk from Pennsylvania.

The miter-clamped breadboard end makes a broad desktop that always stays flat.

Roy Underhill demonstrates how to cut bead moldings with hand planes for corners that look sharp and last longer.

Classical carver Mary May provides a lesson on woodcarving and a proper rebuke for edge tool abuse!

Roy duplicates the beveled bridle joints and chamfered chops of an old saw-sharpening vise.

Using giant model rip and crosscut saws, Roy demonstrates how to correctly sharpen handsaws.

Roy attempts to replace a chest of molding planes with one complex metal contraption

The master joiner of Plimoth Plantation shows how to frame a small, mortised, and tenoned chest in the old English style.

A master joiner shows Roy how to make and fit the beveled panels and storage till into a framed chest from the Pilgrim era.

Master blacksmith Peter Ross shows how to forge iron hinges and locks from the earliest days of the American experience.

Chris Schwarz shows Roy how to measure up with an English try square based on the examples in the famous Benjamin Seaton tool chest.

Learn to make the simple and useful Dutch tool chest with its characteristic 30-degree slanted lid.

With ash head and hickory handle, Roy shows how to make a proper joiner's mallet for the ages.