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Episode Guide Season 4
- The Dominy Shop – Roy takes us on a tour the Dominy Shop at Winterthur Museum. This shop contains tools and items that were used by three generations craftsmen between 1750-1850.
- A Spring Pole Lathe – Roy walks us through the steps to create a simple, but accurate and functional spring pole lathe.
- Ball & Claw Feet – Roy welcomes Wallace Gusler from Colonial Williamsburg, and he shows the process to create a cabriole leg with a ball and claw foot.
- The Wainscot Chair – Roy works with his daughter, Rachel, to create a child-size, 17th-century chair found in a book by Wallace Nutting.
- Tool Boxes and Chests Roy examines the contents of a recently bought tool chest to find out more about the original owner. He then shows how to recreate the chest itself.
- Chip Carving – Mack Headley from Colonial Williamsburg visits the shop and demonstrates the chip carving techniques used to decorate furniture.
- Good Fences Roy examines the details of early American fences. These include lightweight, portable, and garden fences as well as more robust post-and-rail fences that were used in forts constructed around 1620.
- Kitchen Gifts Roy shows you how to make some always-gift-appropriate and useful utensils for the kitchen including a rolling pin, heavy spoon, a collapsible drinking cup and more.
- Raising the Shop Roy helps to raise the frame-and timber structure for Andersons Forge in Colonial Williamsburg.
- Building A Boat – Roy builds a small rowboat using traditional tools and techniques.
- Rittenshouse Hygrometer After discussing the effects of humidity on different wood species Roy creates a simple, clever late 18th-century hygrometer that measures the humidity in the shop.
- Corner Cupboard Roy recreates a traditional pine corner cupboard.
- Highchair Roy makes a 18th-century babys high chair with rush seating to celebrate his nephew.
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