Bentwood Boxes of the Northwest Coast

E1

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

A Civil War Quilting Frame

E2

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

African Chair From the Ivory Coast

E3

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

Hispanic Furniture-Making

E4

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

Colonial Tape Loom

E5

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

Dovetailing a Loom Box

E6

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

A Colonial Standing Desk

E7

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

Banding Together

E8

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

The Art of Finishing

E9

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

Fifteen Tools From a Dead Man's Chest

E10

Roy restores the tools found in an antique chest.

A Pilgrim Chest of Oak

E11

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

Woodcarvers of the Sacred

E12

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

Moravian Chair

E13

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