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