Season 12
13 episodes · 1992
1Bentwood Boxes of the Northwest Coast
Roy visits Gregg Blomberg and explores woodworking traditions of the Pacific Northwest.
2A Civil War Quilting Frame
Roy is joined by his wife, Jane, to build a traditional quilting frame.
3African Chair From the Ivory Coast
Roy and his friend Robert Watson make a “man’s chair” using tools from the Ivory Coast of Africa.
4Hispanic Furniture-Making
Roy learns about northern New Mexico woodworking on the Santa Fe Trail.
5Colonial Tape Loom
Roy begins making a tiny tape loom, used for making decorative fabric.
6Dovetailing a Loom Box
Roy finishes the tape loom by making a beautiful box for it with dovetails and turned columns.
7A Colonial Standing Desk
Roy makes a standing desk using mortise-and-tenon and tongue-and-groove joints.
8Banding Together
Instrument maker Marcus Hanson makes inlay banding with Roy at the Anthony Hay Cabinet Shop.
9The Art of Finishing
Roy returns to the Anthony Hay Cabinet Shop to learn finishing.
10Fifteen Tools From a Dead Man's Chest
Roy restores the tools found in an antique chest.
11A Pilgrim Chest of Oak
Roy makes a Spanish pilgrim’s chest from New Mexico.
12Woodcarvers of the Sacred
Returning to New Mexico once again, Roy explores religious carving and woodworking in the mountains north of Santa Fe.
13Moravian Chairfinale
Roy makes a Moravian chair that’s reinforced with dovetailed battens, which make this small piece extraordinarily strong.