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This week on Rough Cut, we’re building an amazing bent lamination chair that’s perfect for any home. Host Tommy MacDonald shows viewers how to bend wood into a form using a jig that he made himself and our Rough Cut Road Trip takes us to the International Contemporary Furniture Show in New York.
Who doesn’t need a nice pine chest for storing blankets and other things around the home? For this episode of Rough Cut, we build a simple Pine Chest, based on a 17th century design. For the accents, we visit Tremont Nail in Massachusetts, one of the few steel manufacturers still making nails from scratch.
This special episode of Rough Cut features Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis sharing his memories of the Boston Marathon bombings by making a memory box with host Tommy MacDonald. Designed to hold memories of a loved one, the box’s design shows how easy it is to build this weekend project at home.
This week on Rough Cut, we’ll be building a beautiful, art glass table lamp featuring triple-mitered corners – the perfect accent piece whether it’s on or off. For our Rough Cut Road Trip, we’re heading to Cambridge Massachusetts and to a glass-making school where artists work miracles with glass and fire. Tune in to learn the art of fusing glass with designer Neils Cosman.
With this episode of Rough Cut, we’ll bring you back to the 1700’s and look at some of the federal embellishments at the Pendleton House at the Rhode Island School of Design. Back in the shop, Tommy and Eli show viewers an effortless way to really make your hall table shine with bell flowers, stringing, and other awesome embellishments.
This week on Rough Cut, we’ll be building an elegant and versatile bass wood room divider. In Japan they’re called shoji—which means screen—and they can be used to partition a room or filter light in front of a window. For our Rough Cut Road Trip, we’re heading to a shoji workshop in Queens, NY, where craftsmen create screens according to ancient Japanese methods.
This week on Rough Cut, we’ll build a frame and panel bookstand that’s perfect for any room. And for our Rough Cut Road trip, we’re heading to western Massachusetts to hang out with the legendary Silas Kopf, to see how he creates his unique brand of marquetry.
This week’s Rough Cut is officially for the birds. We’re going to build three bird houses and talk about bird-specific design. For our Rough Cut Road Trip, we’ll visit with a few feathery friends, and find out what THEY look for in a home and join our good friend Al back in the shop.
This week on Rough Cut, we’ll be building my all-time favorite project – a baseball bat BED that’s perfect for any kids room. For our Rough Cut Road Trip, we’re heading to Fall River, Massachusetts to the Axis Bat Factory, to see what really goes into making a major league baseball bat.
This week on Rough Cut, we show the advantages to mass production by building a chair and then showing how we can duplicate their chair to make a set of four or six. It’s easier than you think!
This week on Rough Cut, we’ll be building a versatile draw leaf table and show you the secret that allows good leaves to appear and disappear whenever you need them. Lending a hand in the shop is a special guest Eli Cleveland, Rough Cut’s technical advisor.
This episode is dedicated to those items in the kitchen that you can make easily in a quick week-end project. Host Tommy MacDonald is joined by his friends Al D’Attanasio, North Bennet Street School instructor Steve Brown, and man around the shop Eli Cleveland. Together the team whips up a rolling pin, pepper grinder, and ice cream scoop.
Who doesn’t need a nice garden bench for their outdoor spaces? In the season finale of Rough Cut, Tommy shows us the intricacies of making a simple garden bench really sparkle. Move over Adirondack Chair, this is a garden bench you absolutely can’t live without.
