Season 12
Episodes
1. Bentwood Boxes of the Northwest Coast
1992-10-03
Roy visits Gregg Blomberg and explores woodworking traditions of the Pacific Northwest.
2. A Civil War Quilting Frame
1992-10-10
Roy is joined by his wife, Jane, to build a traditional quilting frame.
3. African Chair From the Ivory Coast
1992-10-17
Roy and his friend Robert Watson make a “man’s chair” using tools from the Ivory Coast of Africa.
4. Hispanic Furniture-Making
1992-10-24
Roy learns about northern New Mexico woodworking on the Santa Fe Trail.
5. Colonial Tape Loom
1992-10-31
Roy begins making a tiny tape loom, used for making decorative fabric.
6. Dovetailing a Loom Box
1992-11-07
Roy finishes the tape loom by making a beautiful box for it with dovetails and turned columns.
7. A Colonial Standing Desk
1992-11-14
Roy makes a standing desk using mortise-and-tenon and tongue-and-groove joints.
8. Banding Together
1992-11-21
Instrument maker Marcus Hanson makes inlay banding with Roy at the Anthony Hay Cabinet Shop.
9. The Art of Finishing
1992-11-28
Roy returns to the Anthony Hay Cabinet Shop to learn finishing.
10. Fifteen Tools From a Dead Man's Chest
1992-12-05
Roy restores the tools found in an antique chest.
11. A Pilgrim Chest of Oak
1992-12-12
Roy makes a Spanish pilgrim’s chest from New Mexico.
12. Woodcarvers of the Sacred
1992-12-19
Returning to New Mexico once again, Roy explores religious carving and woodworking in the mountains north of Santa Fe.
13. Moravian Chair
1992-12-26
Roy makes a Moravian chair that’s reinforced with dovetailed battens, which make this small piece extraordinarily strong.