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The Woodwright's Shop

Season 12 · 13 episodes · Oct 3, 1992

  1. Episode 1

    Bentwood Boxes of the Northwest Coast

    Oct 3, 1992

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

  2. Episode 2

    A Civil War Quilting Frame

    Oct 10, 1992

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

  3. Episode 3

    African Chair From the Ivory Coast

    Oct 17, 1992

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

  4. Episode 4

    Hispanic Furniture-Making

    Oct 24, 1992

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

  5. Episode 5

    Colonial Tape Loom

    Oct 31, 1992

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

  6. Episode 6

    Dovetailing a Loom Box

    Nov 7, 1992

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

  7. Episode 7

    A Colonial Standing Desk

    Nov 14, 1992

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

  8. Episode 8

    Banding Together

    Nov 21, 1992

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

  9. Episode 9

    The Art of Finishing

    Nov 28, 1992

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

  10. Episode 10

    Fifteen Tools From a Dead Man's Chest

    Dec 5, 1992

    Roy restores the tools found in an antique chest.

  11. Episode 11

    A Pilgrim Chest of Oak

    Dec 12, 1992

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

  12. Episode 12

    Woodcarvers of the Sacred

    Dec 19, 1992

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

  13. Episode 13

    Moravian Chair

    Dec 26, 1992

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