Season 12
Episodes • 1992

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