Roy Underhill
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The Woodwright's Shop
Season 12
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Episode 11992-10-03
Bentwood Boxes of the Northwest Coast
Roy visits Gregg Blomberg and explores woodworking traditions of the Pacific Northwest.
Episode 21992-10-10
A Civil War Quilting Frame
Roy is joined by his wife, Jane, to build a traditional quilting frame.
Episode 31992-10-17
African Chair From the Ivory Coast
Roy and his friend Robert Watson make a “man’s chair” using tools from the Ivory Coast of Africa.
Episode 41992-10-24
Hispanic Furniture-Making
Roy learns about northern New Mexico woodworking on the Santa Fe Trail.
Episode 51992-10-31
Colonial Tape Loom
Roy begins making a tiny tape loom, used for making decorative fabric.
Episode 61992-11-07
Dovetailing a Loom Box
Roy finishes the tape loom by making a beautiful box for it with dovetails and turned columns.
Episode 71992-11-14
A Colonial Standing Desk
Roy makes a standing desk using mortise-and-tenon and tongue-and-groove joints.
Episode 81992-11-21
Banding Together
Instrument maker Marcus Hanson makes inlay banding with Roy at the Anthony Hay Cabinet Shop.
Episode 91992-11-28
The Art of Finishing
Roy returns to the Anthony Hay Cabinet Shop to learn finishing.
Episode 101992-12-05
Fifteen Tools From a Dead Man's Chest
Roy restores the tools found in an antique chest.
Episode 111992-12-12
A Pilgrim Chest of Oak
Roy makes a Spanish pilgrim’s chest from New Mexico.
Episode 121992-12-19
Woodcarvers of the Sacred
Returning to New Mexico once again, Roy explores religious carving and woodworking in the mountains north of Santa Fe.
Episode 131992-12-26
Moravian Chair
Roy makes a Moravian chair that’s reinforced with dovetailed battens, which make this small piece extraordinarily strong.
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