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