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The Woodwright's Shop

Season 36 2016
TV-G

  • 2016-09-17T20:00:00Z on PBS
  • 27m
  • 5h 38m (13 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
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.

13 episodes

Season Premiere

2016-09-17T20:00:00Z

36x01 Van Gogh's Chair

Season Premiere

36x01 Van Gogh's Chair

  • 2016-09-17T20:00:00Z26m

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

2016-09-24T20:00:00Z

36x02 Sliding Lid Boxes

36x02 Sliding Lid Boxes

  • 2016-09-24T20:00:00Z26m

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

2016-10-01T20:00:00Z

36x03 Carved Oak Desk Box

36x03 Carved Oak Desk Box

  • 2016-10-01T20:00:00Z26m

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

2016-10-08T20:00:00Z

36x04 Waving Arm Whirligigs

36x04 Waving Arm Whirligigs

  • 2016-10-08T20:00:00Z26m

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

2016-10-15T20:00:00Z

36x05 Wedged Tusk Tenon

36x05 Wedged Tusk Tenon

  • 2016-10-15T20:00:00Z26m

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

2016-10-22T20:00:00Z

36x06 Swedish Shrink Box

36x06 Swedish Shrink Box

  • 2016-10-22T20:00:00Z26m

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

2016-10-29T20:00:00Z

36x07 Saw Like a Butterfly!

36x07 Saw Like a Butterfly!

  • 2016-10-29T20:00:00Z26m

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

2016-11-05T20:00:00Z

36x08 Firewood Carrier

36x08 Firewood Carrier

  • 2016-11-05T20:00:00Z26m

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

2016-11-12T21:00:00Z

36x09 Double Casement Window

36x09 Double Casement Window

  • 2016-11-12T21:00:00Z26m

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

36x10 Tool Chest Hinges & Latch

  • 2016-11-19T21:00:00Z26m

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

2016-11-26T21:00:00Z

36x11 Tool Chest From Bristol

36x11 Tool Chest From Bristol

  • 2016-11-26T21:00:00Z26m

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

2016-12-03T21:00:00Z

36x12 Roman Work Bench

36x12 Roman Work Bench

  • 2016-12-03T21:00:00Z26m

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

Season Finale

2016-12-10T21:00:00Z

36x13 Staked Furniture

Season Finale

36x13 Staked Furniture

  • 2016-12-10T21:00:00Z26m

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

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