Season 12

1. Bentwood Boxes of the Northwest Coast

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

1992-10-03 • ? min

2. A Civil War Quilting Frame

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

1992-10-10 • ? min

3. African Chair From the Ivory Coast

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

1992-10-17 • ? min

4. Hispanic Furniture-Making

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

1992-10-24 • ? min

5. Colonial Tape Loom

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

1992-10-31 • ? min

6. Dovetailing a Loom Box

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

1992-11-07 • ? min

7. A Colonial Standing Desk

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

1992-11-14 • ? min

8. Banding Together

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

1992-11-21 • ? min

9. The Art of Finishing

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

1992-11-28 • ? min

10. Fifteen Tools From a Dead Man's Chest

Roy restores the tools found in an antique chest.

1992-12-05 • ? min

11. A Pilgrim Chest of Oak

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

1992-12-12 • ? min

12. Woodcarvers of the Sacred

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

1992-12-19 • ? min

13. Moravian Chair

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

1992-12-26 • ? min