The Woodwright's Shop Season 17

Roy shows you how to make a shaving horse from a single 2x10.

Learn to whittle the mysterious, impossible-seeming wooden chain and ball-in-cage.

Roy make a child’s Windsor highchair showing classic Windsor techniques.

Make a chair out of grass ... Chinese bamboo, that is.

Make a No. 3 bentwood Shaker box – a deceptively simple design.

Roy’s panel-framed bench has a storage space built beneath the seat.

Using thin wood and only tapered, sliding dovetails, Roy makes a sturdy hanging bookshelf.

Roy takes a rotted window sash and repairs it with weather resistant resinous wood.

Make a cam-operated tea bag dunking machine that’ll save your arms from the repetitive motion of steeping tea.

How do you get to the center of a walnut? Build a turned, decorated nut cracker, as well as a simpler version from one piece of wood.

Roy takes a look at interior Shaker craftsmanship at the Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Mass.

Shaker furniture was made as if to be used for 1,000 years – see how that philosophy is worked into a small table.

During the time of Colonial America, many Loyalists headed north for Canada. Roy explores the life and economy they built there between harsh winters.