Season 12

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Roy restores the tools found in an antique chest.

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

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

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