The Woodwright's Shop was an American traditional woodworking show hosted by master carpenter Roy Underhill and airing on television network PBS.

The Woodwright's Shop teaches the art of traditional woodworking using hand tools and human-powered machines.

Underhill often shows the viewers how to create several useful and strong wooden joints, which are commonly used in carpentry.

He called it "The Woodwright's Shop" and started teaching classes on how to build things out of wood.

[3] Underhill pitched the show idea to the PBS affiliate in Chapel Hill in 1978 but was rejected.

[6] In recent years, the show is filmed in one take with no editing and as a result, the host is often out of breath by the end of the 24 minute program.

[7] A dumbhead is a clamping fixture on a foot-operated shaving horse used to hold unseasoned ("green") wood.

[9] He helped with program development for another five years before he left over a disagreement about the authenticity of slave quarters on the project.

[3] Roy has written several books on woodworking, most of which have been published by the University of North Carolina Press.

Roy lent his woodworking expertise to the 2005 movie The New World about the founding of the settlement in Jamestown, Virginia, in the 17th century.

[3] Roy has had a wide range of woodworking professionals as guests on his show from many different fields of woodworking, Frank Klausz, Christopher Schwarz, Nora Hall, Steve Latta, David Calvo, Michael Dunbar, Dan Mack, Don Weber, Wayne Barton and Curtis Buchanan as well as many lesser-known specialists in the fields of tinsmithing, spoon carving, cooperage (barrels, buckets, canteens), lutherie (stringed instruments), whirligigs, archery, puppetry, basket making, spinning wheels and blacksmithing.

[10] Roy's wife and children have appeared on various episodes over the show's thirty-plus-year span of production.

Each season of The Woodwright's Shop consists of 13 episodes broadcast during the last 13 weeks of the year, typically starting at the beginning of October.