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The Woodwright's Shop

Season 4 • Episode 6 • Chip Carving

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The Woodwright's Shop Season 4, Episode 6: Chip Carving

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Mack Headley from Colonial Williamsburg visits the shop and demonstrates the chip carving techniques used to decorate furniture. Watch The Woodwright's Shop Season 4, Episode 6 Chip Carving in HD free online. Enjoy high-quality streaming of The Woodwright's Shop Season 4, Episode 6 and share your thoughts in the comments below!

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Episodes

13 episodes
1

The Dominy Shop

Roy takes us on a tour the Dominy Shop at Winterthur Museum. The shop holds the tools and shop items used by three generations of craftsman from 1750-1850.

29 min
2

A Spring Pole Lathe

Roy walks us through the steps to create a simple, but accurate and functional spring pole lathe.

29 min
3

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.

29 min
4

The Wainscot Chair

Roy works with his daughter, Rachel, to create a child-size, 17th-century chair found in a book by Wallace Nutting.

29 min
5

Tool Boxes & Chests

Roy explores the contents of a recently purchased tool chest, trying to determine something of the original owner. He then shows how to recreate the chest itself.

29 min
6

Chip Carving

Mack Headley from Colonial Williamsburg visits the shop and demonstrates the chip carving techniques used to decorate furniture.

29 min
7

Good Fences

Roy looks at the details of early-American fences, including lightweight and portable fences used for sheep herding, garden fences and more substantial post and rail “fences” used in forts built around 1620.

29 min
8

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.

29 min
9

Raising the Shop

Roy pitches in with the raising of the frame-and-timber structure for Anderson’s Forge at Colonial Williamsburg.

29 min
10

Building a Boat

Roy builds a small rowboat using traditional tools and techniques.

29 min
11

Rittenshouse Hygrometer

After discussing how humidity affects different wood species, Roy makes a clever and simple late 18th-century hygrometer to measure the humidity in the shop.

29 min
12

Corner Cupboard

Roy recreates a classic pine corner cupboard.

29 min
13

Highchair

To celebrate his new nephew, Roy builds an 18th century baby’s high chair with rush seating.

29 min