Handmade: Britain's Best Woodworker
Mel Giedroyc hosts as talented, good-with-wood craftspeople compete to be crowned Britain's best woodworker.
Seasons
1. Episode 1
Air Date: 2021-10-21
The woodworkers build a bed of dreams that may become the stuff of nightmares for some, and celebrate the fine skill of hand carving in the surprise skills challenge.
2. Episode 2
Air Date: 2021-10-28
The woodworkers make intricate dolls' houses and face a seemingly impossible skills challenge that pushes their joinery skills to the limit.
3. Episode 3
Air Date: 2021-11-04
The woodworkers create chairs that could become design classics, and try to whittle their way to victory in the skills challenge. And the judges have a surprise in store.
4. Episode 4
Air Date: 2021-11-11
It's the quarter-final and the five remaining woodworkers turn up the heat and go wild as they take on animal sculptures. They must chainsaw and carve their way through this colossal big build and unleash their inner beasts as they attempt to uncover an animal within the wood, in just two days. Judges Alex de Rijke and Helen Welch also set them a physically demanding skills challenge that takes them back to Viking times, but only one woodworker can win the immunity that will guarantee them a place in the semi-final.
5. Episode 5
Air Date: 2021-11-18
The semi-final finds the final four woodworkers getting tipsy and glamorous with drinks cabinets inspired by a specific decade. They have to craft sliding doors and complicated mechanisms in a bid to make it through to the final. However, judges Alex de Rijke and Helen Welch aren't letting up, as they set a steamy surprise challenge that may bend the woodworkers out of shape.
6. Episode 6
Air Date: 2021-11-25
Mel Giedroyc welcomes the three finalists back to the workshop nestled in ancient woodland on Wales' Glanusk Estate to make their biggest build yet - towering garden buildings. With just two days to build huge creations that would take professionals weeks to make, the woodworkers must give this final build everything they've got. Only one competitor can win, and it's up to judges Alex de Rijke and Helen Welch to decide who is Britain's best woodworker.
1. Episode 1
Air Date: 2022-09-21
Mel Giedroyc returns with the carpentry contest, which sees 10 woodworking enthusiasts fight hammer and nail as they create various projects that combine epic scale with fine craftsmanship and cutting-edge design. To remain in the competition they have to impress the judges, entrepreneur and woodworking expert Sophie Sellu and design academic Tom Dyckhoff, while a series of surprise challenges keep them on their toes - and give them the chance to win a lifeline.
2. Episode 2
Air Date: 2022-09-28
The carpentry enthusiasts are challenged to make a beautiful, freestanding, handcrafted clock inspired by an important time in their life. But as time ticks by, little goes to plan, and the woodworkers are tested to their limits. However, an opportunity to win immunity comes in the form of the skills challenge, where they must reproduce a bunch of realistic roses from delicate pieces of wood planed from a block of ash.
3. Episode 3
Air Date: 2022-10-05
Mel Giedroyc welcomes the eight remaining woodworkers back, and awaiting them this time is literally child's play, as they craft a high-quality toy inspired by their own childhood. The woodworkers are tasked with carving a modern take on the traditional Welsh love spoon, but who will sweep judges Sophie Sellu and Tom Dyckhoff off their feet with their love token, and who will be dumped from the competition?
4. Episode 4
Air Date: 2022-10-12
The carpentry enthusiasts are challenged to make bespoke day beds inspired by a design movement, ensuring it is strong, practical and comfortable. As ever, an opportunity to win immunity comes in the form of the skills challenge, which this week sees them burning an image onto wood. Presented by Mel Giedroyc
5. Episode 5
Air Date: 2022-10-19
Mel Giedroyc hosts, as the woodworkers create a sea-inspired sculpture from a tree trunk and turn a perfectly proportioned spinning top on a traditional pole lathe in the skills test
6. Episode 6
Air Date: 2022-10-26
Mel Giedroyc hosts, as the woodworkers make a stylish rocking chair and bird box. Who will roll into the semi-final and who will finally fall off their perch?
7. Episode 7
Air Date: 2022-11-02
Mel Giedroyc hosts the semi-final, as the woodworkers carve a bespoke desk and wooden vase for a place in the final. Who will have a good day at the office?
8. Episode 8
Air Date: 2022-11-09
The Final: Mel Giedroyc hosts, as the woodworkers build a home bar complete with a sign, before happy hour starts for the winner of Britain's Best Woodworker.
1. Episode 1
Air Date: 2023-10-08
Whose garden bench and wooden greetings card will carve out a place in the next round?
2. Episode 2
Air Date: 2023-10-15
The remaining woodworkers throw all their energy into creating two freestanding lamps
3. Episode 3
Air Date: 2023-10-22
The carpenters are challenged to build elaborate coffee tables.
4. Episode 4
Air Date: 2023-10-29
The woodworkers turn fiction into fact by making a freestanding bookshelf. But whose wooden candelabra will light the way to the next round?
5. Episode 5
Air Date: 2023-11-05
The woodworkers make a supersized creepy crawly, and use all their canine cunning to construct a house for a four-legged friend.
6. Episode 6
Air Date: 2023-11-12
The five remaining woodworkers make a beautiful four-poster bed and carve an Indian block print. But will their skills be the stuff of dreams or a living nightmare?
7. Episode 7
Air Date: 2023-11-19
It's the semi-final, and it all hangs in the balance as the woodworkers create a hanging chair and master the pole lathe. Who will be sitting pretty in the final?
8. Episode 8
Air Date: 2023-11-26
The three finalists build a kitchen island and an accessory to compliment it. Who has the recipe for success to be crowned as Britain's Best Woodworker?
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Rating
7.8/10
Release Date
2021-10-21
Episodes
22 (3 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
Production Companies
Plimsoll Productions