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American Woodshop
| Website: | http://www.wbgu.org/americanwoodshop |
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| Next Airing: | Sat, Jan 18th, 2025 at 4:30 AM on UEN-TV |
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Host Scott Phillips, an American woodworking master, shares time-honored tips and new techniques in the construction of projects you can do at home. From an Annie Oakley Dry Sink to a Chippendale High Boy, Scott guides you through the process of building tables, chairs, benches, medicine cabinets, cupboards, plant and candle stands, serving spoons, salad bowls and a storage chest . A master woodworker with a personable style thorough knowledge of his craft, Phillips's reverence for the intricacies of wood and its possibilities has helped make AMERICAN WOODSHOP a favorite among ptv audiences.
Episodes:
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Treasure Box
Sized to hold a king's ransom, yet ideal for any home treasure. A homemade router table box joint jig is demoed with beautiful precision. The shell carving is created with just one chip carving knife. Plus, a custom top is formed with a scrub plane. A fun gift idea!
Next Airing: Sat, Jan 18th, 2025 at 4:30 AM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 3/21/2022 to 3/20/2026 -
The Go-To Corner Chair
The chair is the most used daytime furniture in every home. This unconventional corner chair is the perfect way to make sitting in the corner fun. Made of a bent lamination arm rest supported by turned red oak spindles with a plank seat. You need to see this to believe it!
Next Airing: Sat, Jan 18th, 2025 at 9:00 AM on KUED-HD Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 3/20/2023 to 3/19/2027 -
Furniture Restorations
Easy to use finishing products are featured as the best way to keep furniture looking great. Tips and tricks make restoring furniture fast and rewarding. Learn the best way to fix most common furniture repair challenges.
Next Airing: Sun, Jan 19th, 2025 at 4:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 3/28/2022 to 3/27/2026 -
Easy Inlay Turned Boxes
Completely mesmerizing! These spinning creations of magical woods are inlaid with wonder! New materials and new techniques of inlaying elevate turned boxes to new heights. It's impossible to have more fun in wood than by watching these spin to life! Also featured are chisel sharpening tips.
Next Airing: Sat, Jan 25th, 2025 at 9:00 AM on KUED-HD Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 3/27/2023 to 3/26/2027 -
River Display Table
Two live-edge Corkscrew Willow slabs are turned into stunning display tables. These came from wood harvested in episode 2904. Castle joints are created to make the leg assemblies on an epoxy resin "river" table. Just wait until you see how this all comes together!
Next Airing: Sun, Jan 26th, 2025 at 4:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 4/4/2022 to 4/3/2026 -
Cantilevered Tables
Designed to defy gravity, these tables just look right. The live edge walnut slab tops really look spectacular! A special interlocking pivot joint is used to form the leg assembly. Power sculpting the large wide slabs really makes the wood come to life!
Next Airing: Sat, Feb 1st, 2025 at 9:00 AM on KUED-HD Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 4/3/2023 to 4/2/2027 -
Vintage Glass Candy Cabinet Circa 1930s
Straight from the corner store comes this beautiful four-sided glass and red oak display case. Easy to build with simple tools! Blended Danish oil creates an old-world look. Tapered red oak plugs add the perfect finishing touch.
Next Airing: Sun, Feb 2nd, 2025 at 4:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 1/9/2023 to 1/8/2027 -
Live Edge Windsor Inspired Bench
Insider tips on creating live edge benches helps to make home crafting easy. Natural edges with curves and bark can be challenging to mill. Track saws are explained and demonstrated as the perfect addition to the home woodshop.
Next Airing: Sun, Feb 9th, 2025 at 4:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 1/16/2023 to 1/15/2027 -
Turning Kitchen Gifts
Hard maple circular cutting boards along with turned pie servers and cheese planes are ideal gifts for every occasion. Turning wood is easy to do! See detailed steps to begin turning custom gifts. Made of colorful SpectraPly.
Next Airing: Sun, Feb 16th, 2025 at 4:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 1/23/2023 to 1/22/2027 -
Woodcraft Magazine Tool Organizer
Designed as a freestanding red oak tool tower, comes a classic! It easily can be used in kitchens of any size as a utilities and baking keep. Steel Casters add a mid-century modern look. Originally designed by Woodcraft Magazine. Router cut half-blind dovetails are milled with the perfect jig.
Next Airing: Sun, Feb 23rd, 2025 at 4:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 1/30/2023 to 1/29/2027 -
Scroll Saw Art and Sign Making
This type of cutting is remarkable. These delicate blades cut the hardest of wood (hard maple) with ease. Suzy demonstrates the techniques that she uses for best results. She scrolls a reverse image tiger and Scott uses the same technique to complete an eagle. Routed lettering featured.
Next Airing: Sun, Mar 2nd, 2025 at 4:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 2/6/2023 to 2/5/2027 -
Resin Cast Turned Lamp
Scott creates these signature lamps using epoxy resin and turned parts. Internal LED lights make the turnings glow with inspiring light. See how ever step combines to make each lamp completely original! Pure magic!.
Next Airing: Sun, Mar 9th, 2025 at 4:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 2/13/2023 to 2/12/2027 -
Art Glass Display Cabinet
Making something new from something old has never been more rewarding. A vintage piece of art glass is combined with a custom-made 35mm hinged hard maple cabinet. This Art and Crafts style is the perfect accent piece in any room. Internal lighting makes this colorful work come to life!
Next Airing: Sun, Mar 16th, 2025 at 4:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 2/20/2023 to 2/19/2027 -
Carved Garden Chairs
Ready for a garden party? Well then these are the chairs for you! Playfully carved accents make these keyed chairs just right. Deceptively comfortable. They invite the viewer to have a seat! Created with a bandsaw, jig saw, cordless drill and carving chisels. Easy to make and pure fun!
Next Airing: Sun, Mar 23rd, 2025 at 4:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 2/27/2023 to 2/26/2027 -
Chippendale High Boy Carvings and Turnings
This period furniture design is inspired by Thomas Chippendale of the 1700s. Elegance in American black cherry. The scallop shell carvings are iconic and uniquely American. The final turnings just lift the eyes to the broken arch pediment. Breathtaking!
Next Airing: Sun, Mar 30th, 2025 at 4:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 3/6/2023 to 3/5/2027 -
American Miniature Benchtop Chest
This miniature chest is perfectly sized to enhance any tabletop. Two router jig half- blind dovetail drawers are the key to this elegant mix of woods. Visit the Dave Moser Kiln to see how small batches of wood can be cured.
Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 2/14/2022 to 2/13/2026 -
Custom Knives and Keep Trays
Special tempered stainless-steel blades are finished with custom wood handles called scales. Spectra ply is turned for the big knife, Purple Heart is used on the gift knife and two others must be seen to be believed. Also, crown molding is cut to make a perfect tray!
Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 3/14/2022 to 3/13/2026 -
English Cricket Table
This 300-year-old round table was traditionally a cricket game centerpiece. Recreated from American Chestnut, quarter-sawn White Oak and Mahogany, the triangular shelf holds three angled legs perfectly. A geometric challenge comes together with dominoes. A timber mill cuts live edge slabs for the ultimate display table show.
Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 2/7/2022 to 2/6/2026 -
Finishing for the Ages / Queen Anne Low Boy Finishing Techniques
How do you get the perfect color on custom wooden works? Test samples! This show is completely dedicated to demystifying the finishing process. This episode shows the steps needed to finish with style and ease!
Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 3/13/2023 to 3/12/2027 -
Green Bowl Turning
Honey Locust from log to home is used to make the ultimate salad serving bowl. This 44-pound green wood bowl blank is turned into a three-pound graceful kitchen masterpiece. Bandsaw tips save the day when making this rough bowl blank. Guest turner Barry Todd shares his latest turned creations. Plus, a visit to Catch My Drift (driftwood art) at the Brubaker Studio.
Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 1/24/2022 to 1/23/2026 -
Hearth Chair
A centuries-old three-legged chair recreated with White Oak and Walnut is curiously perfect and comfortable. Bandsaw tune-up and blade selection are covered for perfect cuts.
Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 1/17/2022 to 1/16/2026 -
Hoop Back Windsor Chair
Chair making is the best way to truly hone woodworking skills! Windsor hoop backed forms are solid and comfortable. Special jigs are used to laminate the bent wood hoop. Turning is used to make stretchers and spindles and the seat is sculpted. Magic happens when they all join together!
Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 3/7/2022 to 3/6/2026 -
Tall Case Cabinet
Recycled wood with live edge accents combine with relief-carved Chestnut for a stunning effect. A Chestnut Oak table project is delivered to the Gertner Barn.
Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 1/10/2022 to 1/9/2026 -
Tall Vase Turning
A log is transformed into a beautiful vase by a series of wood turning techniques. The trick is to keep this 50-pound spinning "trunk" balanced! Sometimes making wood behave can be challenging. The reward for a job well spun is to have done it! Guest turner Brary Todd shared his latest turned creations.
Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 2/21/2022 to 2/20/2026 -
Tool Tote
The ideal curved handle tool tray. Hand-cut through dovetail joints add strength and elegance to the handy way to store key tools. Reclaimed woods include Kentucky Coffee Tree and Osage Orange. Scott harvests a burl tree for future projects and a tree service company shares logging techniques.
Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 1/31/2022 to 1/30/2026 -
Turning Times
Pure wood magic spins spindles and faceplates to create home comfort. Learning the art of turning has never been easier! Learn to turn wood in this easy to follow way.
Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 4/5/2021 to 4/4/2025 -
Wall Curio Cabinet
Making cabinets has never been easier! Simple tools are used to build the case for an antique curved beveled glass door. LED lighting is featured. Plus, see the best way to "hang" wall mounted cabinets. Custom cabinets are hard to beat!
Length: 00:26:46 Usage rights: 2/28/2022 to 2/27/2026