Woodworking With The Router

Keep your home in tip-top form with the knowledge gained from the Positive Home Solutions Series! Complete and accurate how-to information to assist the average homeowner to successsfully undertake the described projects, with the fewest mistakes and the highest level of quality work. Projects include building cabinets, tables and bookshelves.

Keep your home in tip-top form with the knowledge gained from the Positive Home Solutions Series! Complete and accurate how-to information to assist the average homeowner to successsfully undertake the described projects, with the fewest mistakes and the highest level of quality work. Projects include picnic table, molding picture frames, planter, towel rack, and more.

Season 5 Episode 3 - Baby Cradle: Roy takes us into the shop to finish up a pilgrim-style oak cradle that he started, but never finished, reviewing the “tricky” parts necessary to create the whole project. Season 5 Episode 12 - Secrets From the Cabinet Shop: Roy travels back to visit with master cabinetmaker Mack Headley at the Anthony Hay shop at Colonial Williamsburg. He shares some of the secrets that were standard fare for 18th century American woodworking.

Season 6 Episode 10 - Shaker Lap Desk: Build one of the classic 18th Century projects with Roy; a Shaker lap desk. Season 6 Episode 11 - Rachel's Wagon: Roy walks through the steps required to build a wooden wagon for his daughters – but manages to have some fun himself. Season 6 Episode 12 - Toolmaker's Art: Roy visits with Peter Ross at the Anderson Forge to look at 18th Century tool making, in particular, a gentlemen’s hatchet. Season 6 Episode 13 - House Framing Doggie Style: Only the best for Roy’s pooch, Grit: a brick and Tudor framed doghouse is this episode’s project.

The Woodwright's Shop with Roy Underhill Season Eight, 2 DVD-Set

This set of 9 videos, each approximately 60 minutes long, was created by B. Allan Mackie and is packed with information and designed for the serious builder. Narrated by B. Allan Mackie himself, they contain everything you need to know to construct your own state-of-the-art home with consideration of the ecology in mind.

This video takes the beginner through the selection and use of basic woodturning tools as well as the tool movement required to make simple projects. This video is the best alternative to actually being able to take a class from Chris Stott.

Rob Cosman has been woodworking for most of his life. While earning a B.Sc. in Industrial Technology/Furniture Design at Brigham Young University, he was Dr. Dale L. Nishs teaching assistant. Rob has also worked with many of the worlds best craftsmen - including Alan Peters, Sam Maloof, Tage Frid, Monroe Robinson and Peter Korn. In the first of Rob Cosmans Master Craftsman Series, he teams up with renowned woodcarver, author and teacher Chris Pye to present a comprehensive DVD.

This dvd is 1 1/2 hours long and teaches the fundamentals of incising letters. Logically broken down to manageable steps Chris takes the viewer to success. Intended to teach the furniture maker how to carve it will also help the seasoned carver to learn some of Chris's techniques.

Bench-side instruction on hand-cutting hounds tooth, half-blind and mitred edge dovetails. Building on "Hand Cut Dovetails" Rob takes you through the more difficult variations of the joint one step at a time, each thoroughly explained as it is demonstrated. An additional camera was used in this DVD to provide even closer shots of what was happening at the "cutting edge". Rob introduces some custom tools he has found to make the job easier and faster.