Season 12

episodes

E1
1.Bentwood Boxes of the Northwest Coast
Oct 3, 1992

Roy visits Gregg Blomberg and explores woodworking traditions of the Pacific Northwest.

E2
2.A Civil War Quilting Frame
Oct 10, 1992

Roy is joined by his wife, Jane, to build a traditional quilting frame.

E3
3.African Chair From the Ivory Coast
Oct 17, 1992

Roy and his friend Robert Watson make a “man’s chair” using tools from the Ivory Coast of Africa.

E4
4.Hispanic Furniture-Making
Oct 24, 1992

Roy learns about northern New Mexico woodworking on the Santa Fe Trail.

E5
5.Colonial Tape Loom
Oct 31, 1992

Roy begins making a tiny tape loom, used for making decorative fabric.

E6
6.Dovetailing a Loom Box
Nov 7, 1992

Roy finishes the tape loom by making a beautiful box for it with dovetails and turned columns.

E7
7.A Colonial Standing Desk
Nov 14, 1992

Roy makes a standing desk using mortise-and-tenon and tongue-and-groove joints.

E8
8.Banding Together
Nov 21, 1992

Instrument maker Marcus Hanson makes inlay banding with Roy at the Anthony Hay Cabinet Shop.

E9
9.The Art of Finishing
Nov 28, 1992

Roy returns to the Anthony Hay Cabinet Shop to learn finishing.

E10
10.Fifteen Tools From a Dead Man's Chest
Dec 5, 1992

Roy restores the tools found in an antique chest.

E11
11.A Pilgrim Chest of Oak
Dec 12, 1992

Roy makes a Spanish pilgrim’s chest from New Mexico.

E12
12.Woodcarvers of the Sacred
Dec 19, 1992

Returning to New Mexico once again, Roy explores religious carving and woodworking in the mountains north of Santa Fe.

E13
13.Moravian Chair
Dec 26, 1992

Roy makes a Moravian chair that’s reinforced with dovetailed battens, which make this small piece extraordinarily strong.