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A Colonial Standing Desk

November 14, 1992

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The Woodwright's Shop - S12 - E7

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

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The Woodwright's Shop: Season 12 - 13 Episode s

12x1 - Bentwood Boxes of the Northwest Coast
October 3, 1992
Roy visits Gregg Blomberg and explores woodworking traditions of the Pacific Northwest.
12x2 - A Civil War Quilting Frame
October 10, 1992
Roy is joined by his wife, Jane, to build a traditional quilting frame.
12x3 - African Chair From the Ivory Coast
October 17, 1992
Roy and his friend Robert Watson make a “man’s chair” using tools from the Ivory Coast of Africa.
12x4 - Hispanic Furniture-Making
October 24, 1992
Roy learns about northern New Mexico woodworking on the Santa Fe Trail.
12x5 - Colonial Tape Loom
October 31, 1992
Roy begins making a tiny tape loom, used for making decorative fabric.
12x6 - Dovetailing a Loom Box
November 7, 1992
Roy finishes the tape loom by making a beautiful box for it with dovetails and turned columns.
12x7 - A Colonial Standing Desk
November 14, 1992
Roy makes a standing desk using mortise-and-tenon and tongue-and-groove joints.
12x8 - Banding Together
November 21, 1992
Instrument maker Marcus Hanson makes inlay banding with Roy at the Anthony Hay Cabinet Shop.
12x9 - The Art of Finishing
November 28, 1992
Roy returns to the Anthony Hay Cabinet Shop to learn finishing.
12x10 - Fifteen Tools From a Dead Man's Chest
December 5, 1992
Roy restores the tools found in an antique chest.
12x11 - A Pilgrim Chest of Oak
December 12, 1992
Roy makes a Spanish pilgrim’s chest from New Mexico.
12x12 - Woodcarvers of the Sacred
December 19, 1992
Returning to New Mexico once again, Roy explores religious carving and woodworking in the mountains north of Santa Fe.
12x13 - Moravian Chair
December 26, 1992
Roy makes a Moravian chair that’s reinforced with dovetailed battens, which make this small piece extraordinarily strong.

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