Season 12

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.