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