The Woodwright's Shop — Season 12
13 episodesFirst aired 3 October 1992
E1Bentwood Boxes of the Northwest Coast
Oct 1992
Roy visits Gregg Blomberg and explores woodworking traditions of the Pacific Northwest.
- E2
A Civil War Quilting Frame
Oct 1992
Roy is joined by his wife, Jane, to build a traditional quilting frame.
- E3
African Chair From the Ivory Coast
Oct 1992
Roy and his friend Robert Watson make a “man’s chair” using tools from the Ivory Coast of Africa.
- E4
Hispanic Furniture-Making
Oct 1992
Roy learns about northern New Mexico woodworking on the Santa Fe Trail.
- E5
Colonial Tape Loom
Oct 1992
Roy begins making a tiny tape loom, used for making decorative fabric.
- E6
Dovetailing a Loom Box
Nov 1992
Roy finishes the tape loom by making a beautiful box for it with dovetails and turned columns.
- E7
A Colonial Standing Desk
Nov 1992
Roy makes a standing desk using mortise-and-tenon and tongue-and-groove joints.
- E8
Banding Together
Nov 1992
Instrument maker Marcus Hanson makes inlay banding with Roy at the Anthony Hay Cabinet Shop.
- E9
The Art of Finishing
Nov 1992
Roy returns to the Anthony Hay Cabinet Shop to learn finishing.
- E10
Fifteen Tools From a Dead Man's Chest
Dec 1992
Roy restores the tools found in an antique chest.
- E11
A Pilgrim Chest of Oak
Dec 1992
Roy makes a Spanish pilgrim’s chest from New Mexico.
- E12
Woodcarvers of the Sacred
Dec 1992
Returning to New Mexico once again, Roy explores religious carving and woodworking in the mountains north of Santa Fe.
- E13
Moravian Chair
Dec 1992
Roy makes a Moravian chair that’s reinforced with dovetailed battens, which make this small piece extraordinarily strong.
