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Manufacturer: Popular Woodworking Magazine

Charismatic and innovative, woodworker Roy Underhill has been educating and entertaining people with his unrivaled knowledge of traditional hand tools and woodworking techniques for more than 30 years. Now you can enjoy all the classic episodes from the first season of his hit PBS show any time you want. This 2-DVD set gives you six hours with Roy, in these episodes:Maul & Glut—Watch Roy make two traditional tools by first felling a tree then shaping a maul and glut using period iron woodworking tools.Shaving Horse—Learn how to make a shaving horse—one of the most important hand-tool shop fixtures for working with drawknives and spokeshaves.Hay rake—Spend time with Roy as he shows you how to build one of his favorite projects: a hickory hay rake that is both strong and lightweight.Lathes—Join Roy on a tour of the history and development of human powered machines, including one of his favorites: the lathe.Rocking Chair—Learn how to build a classic armless rocking chair using traditional tools and techniques. Then create a woven white oak seat for the rocker. Plus, watch as Roy's guest Bryant Holsenbeck demonstrates how to weave a traditional basket.Log Cabin—Watch as Roy demonstrates the steps and hand-hewn joinery used in building traditional log cabins.Timber Frame Construction—Watch and learn as Roy addresses the details of timber framing, including post-and-beam and mortise-and-tenon construction techniques.Dough Bowl & Pitchforks—Watch as Roy makes a pitchfork and a dough bowl, each from a single piece of wood.Blacksmithing—Spend some time at the forge with Roy to learn basic blacksmithing techniques and discover how to create a spike dog (a tool used in timber framing).Panel Frame & Dovetail—Follow along as Roy discusses frame-and-panel construction for doors, and the basic steps for cutting a dovetailed joint.Colonial Williamsburg—Travel with Roy to Colonial Williamsburg to take a look at 18th-century craftsmanship including...

Manufacturer: 2RS STUDIOS Brand: Music Video Dist

Acclaimed international ganja guide Jorge Cervantes proudly presents this Collectors' Edition Box Set, which includes his first two best-selling DVDs for HIGH TIMES, plus a brand-new bonus disc featuring never-before seen garden tours and growing tips, hi

Manufacturer: Kultur White Star Brand: Super D

Penelope Hobhouse is England's leading garden writer, garden designer, garden historian, lecturer and gardener, and host of The Art and Practice of Gardening (produced by Perennial Productions) for Home and Garden Television in the USA. DISC 1 ROSES FOR THE GARDEN features top rose authorities and rose gardens: world renowned rosarian David Austin Sr. from his Nursery & Rose Garden in Albrighton; Patrick Taylor on the glory of old roses at Mottisfont Abbey. VISIONS OF NATURE: The Naturalistic Garden Style explores today s most sought after garden style on both sides of the Atlantic, with a stunning visual tour of England's greatest 18th century landscape garden, Stourhead, and two of America's great naturalist gardens: Winterthur Gardens' March Walk and Longwood Garden's native plant woodland garden, Peirce's Woods. STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS: Garden Architecture & Ornament features the 20th century's grand dame of British horticulture, Rosemary Verey in her equally renowned Barnsley House garden.. Hobhouse covers all the structural essentials, large and small: from steps, walls, and paving, to pots, paint color and garden furnishings THE SUMMER GARDEN sets out Hobhouse's secrets for summer beauty and abundance using a blend of annuals, perennials and biennials in her garden at Bettiscombe, and with Sandra Pope in her spectacular yellow border at Hadspen House. NURSERIES & PLANT COLLECTIONS: Hobhouse explores the Victorian era walled gardens at West Dean with Jim Buckland and Sarah Wain. NEW GARDEN IDEAS explores new alternative garden styles, from her first gravel garden at Bettiscombe to the eclectic mix of garden styles and plants at John Brookes' Denmans Garden, and James Van Sweden's innovative garden fronting the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.DISC 2FLOWER GARDENS leads with Marco Polo Stufano and his no-nonsense secrets for success from the celebrated Wave Hill Flower Garden. Penelope Hobhouse shares her insights from her own flower garden in Dorset. PLANTING THE BONES OF A GARDEN covers avenues and allees, plant rep...

Manufacturer: Mass Media Group

The Basics of Household Wiring - Extended Edition is a detailed training program designed to teach you electrical wiring techniques in a fast, effective way. This DVD is new for 2010 and contains an additional 30 minutes of additional training than previous releases. The Basics of Household Wiring - Extended Edition is the only electrical wiring tutorial of its kind that takes challenging electrical wiring situations and makes them easy to understand. Just some of the items demonstrated in this program include: Service panels and breakers Wires, cables and gauges Rough-In wiring Switches, receptacles, lights Safety and testing Voltage, watts, amps Three and four-way switches Switch loops GFCIs, AFCIs and other special wiring situations Owning this program will give you the opportunity to watch wiring procedures over and over again until you ve mastered them. We illustrate wiring diagrams so you can clearly see how to do them properly. We then show you how electricity properly flows through these examples. This way, you will understand the whole process. In the past, the only way to learn these techniques was to study electrical manuals or get coached by a professional. Now, we offer an alternative. The Basics of Household Wiring will jump start your confidence and teach you the professional secrets to this challenging field of home improvement.

Manufacturer: Millennium Media Solutions

Bravo's famed docu-series "Flipping Out" returns with everyone's favorite obsessive-compulsive house-flipper, Jeff Lewis. With the soft market teaching flippers new lessons as home sales decline, there's never a dull moment for Lewis and his intriguing cast of characters as Lewis is driven to expand his business and pick up property renovations instead. Lewis is forced to work for others (which he hates), but in his own inimitable style he takes on massive multimillion-dollar remodeling jobs. Season two is back with nine new episodes, plus never-before-seen bonus footage of your favorite characters!

Manufacturer: BBC Warner Brand: Warner Manufacturing

Ground Force has come a long way from its humble beginnings in West Wickham, Kent, and gardeners the world over have reaped the fruits of these magnificent garden makeovers. For the past six years, Alan Titchmarsh has led his fearless troops on a grueling, and often hilarious, tour-de-force campaign of incredible garden recreations.DVD Features:Extended takesFeaturette:Alan's Designs Tommy's Constructions Charlie's Water Features And other never-before-seen footage Music Clips:The Music of Ground ForceOther

Manufacturer: Popular Woodworking Magazine

Charismatic and innovative, woodworker Roy Underhill has been educating and entertaining people with his unrivaled knowledge of traditional hand tools and woodworking techniques for more than 30 years. Now you can enjoy all the classic episodes from the 20th season (one of Roy's personal favorites) of his hit PBS show any time you want. This 2-DVD set gives you six hours with Roy, in these episodes:Lap Desk—Watch and learn as Roy builds a reproduction of a simple walnut lap desk from the 19th century.Turned Corner Chair—Follow along as Roy shows you how to make a circa-1550 three-legged chair from the Flemish town of Rotterdam.Banjo Man George Wunderlich—Join Roy as he welcomes George Wunderlich and watch as he recreates a mid-1800s banjo.Writer's Bookcase—Watch as Roy builds a small oak bookcase, without glue or fasteners, for easier disassembly.Timber Corner—Pick up valuable tips for large-scale woodworking from Roy as he builds the corner of a timber-framed structure.Decoy Carvers—Observe Nick Supone and Neal Conolly as they stop by "The Woodwright's Shop" and demonstrate the hewing and carving techniques used in creating a duck decoy.Eastfield Village—Travel with Roy to Eastfield Village where he tours the museum's restored historic buildings.Marquetry Master Patrick Edwards—Watch and learn as Roy visits with marquetry expert Patrick Edwards, and discusses the technique of "painting in wood."In the Blacksmith's Shop—Join Roy for a visit with blacksmiths Peter Ross and Ken Schwarz where they demonstrate making bench chisels and more.Toys That Make Noise—Watch as Roy soldiers a tin-can bird whistle and makes a boxwood whistling top.Carving with the Cabinetmakers—Travel along with Roy to the Hay Cabinet Shop at Williamsburg for a furniture-carving talk with Master Mack Headley.Windsor Chair—Watch as Roy visits with Mike Dunbar of the Windsor Institute as he demonstrates the process for building a sack-back Windsor chair.20th Anni...