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14 Episodes 2016 - 2016
Episode 1
Tue, Mar 1, 201622 mins
Host Jill Wagner travels the country on a quest to find talented craftsmen who still make incredible items by hand. First, she travels to Traverse City, Michigan, to meet Nathan Bower, an award winning clockmaker who makes skeleton clocks with exposed inner workings. Next, she is off to Woody's Chair Shop in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, where she helps owner and seventh generation woodworker Scott Woody build traditional chairs without glue or nails. Finally, she heads northwest to Cle Elum, Washington, to help female blacksmith Maria Cristalli bend, twist, and shape iron bars into beautiful and functional items.
Episode 2
Tue, Mar 1, 201622 mins
Host Jill Wagner travels the country on a quest to find talented craftsmen who still make incredible items by hand. Her first stop is Bastrop, Texas, where young quilter Maura Ambrose is fanatically dedicated to the traditions of hand sewing quilts and dying fabrics. In the hills of Morganton, North Carolina, Jill meets gunsmith Bobby Denton who creates elegant replicas of flintlock long rifles. Finally, Jill travels to Elgin, Illinois, to hang out in the workshop of acclaimed artist Walter Arnold, one of the few stone carvers in the United States who apprenticed in the marble carving studios of Italy.
Episode 3
Tue, Mar 8, 201622 mins
Host Jill Wagner travels the country on a quest to find talented craftsmen who still make incredible items by hand. First stop is Seattle, Washington, where Jill meets Marcia Wiley, a glass blower working with colorful dichroic glass that makes everyday drinking glasses shift colors like a peacock feather. Next, Jill heads to Wooster, Ohio, where Rody Walter makes painstakingly crafted bicycles and has a waiting list over seven years long. Finally, Jill travels down south to Monterey, Kentucky, where she learns about Gray Zeitz's 100 year old printing press and learns how he builds books one tiny letter at a time.
Episode 4
Tue, Mar 15, 201622 mins
Host Jill Wagner travels the country on a quest to find talented craftsmen who still make incredible items by hand. Her first stop is Rocksprings, Texas, where she meets Grady Douglass, a 24 year old leatherworker with skills beyond his years. Then, she heads to Rugby, Virginia, to hang out in the workshop of Wayne Henderson, a guitar maker who is so renowned he has a seven year waiting list. Finally, it's off to Chicago, Illinois, where former architect Annie Mohaupt combines cutting edge digital technology with artisanal processes to create a really comfortable handmade pair of shoes.
Episode 5
Tue, Mar 22, 201622 mins
Host Jill Wagner travels the country on a quest to find talented craftsmen who still make incredible items by hand. First, she travels to a remote area of Alaska to meet husband and wife Master Bladesmiths Adam and Haley DesRosiers, who make some of the world's most sought after knives. Then, she heads to Hickory, North Carolina, to meet Master Woodworker Eddie Hamrick, a world renowned craftsman who can make just about anything out of wood. Finally, Jill is off to Austin, Texas, to meet Cambria Harkey, a leatherworker whose beautiful handbags are appreciated by everyday folks and red carpet celebrities.
Episode 6
Tue, Mar 29, 201622 mins
Host Jill Wagner travels the country on a quest to find talented craftsmen who still make incredible items by hand. Her first stop is Joliet, Illinois, where Chad and Jessica Schumacher of Allegory Pens are turning scraps of wood with historical significance into stunning writing instruments. Next, Jill meets up with former Oklahoma cowboy crooner, Michael Wayne Brooks, who moved to Los Angeles to make and sell his elaborate hand stitched cowboy boots. Finally, it's off to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where Scott and Melissa Coleman of La Puerta Originals are creating new appreciation for long forgotten doors.
Episode 7
Tue, Apr 5, 201622 mins
Host Jill Wagner travels the country on a quest to find talented craftsmen who still make incredible items by hand. First, in Lambertville, New Jersey, Jill visits the studio of ceramicist Katherine Hackl to learn the technique of sgraffito, the scratching of intricate patterns into the surface of pottery. Then, she's off to Kenosha, Wisconsin, where she meets Martin Antaramian, a young woodworker who is creating solid wood tables that look as if they are made of swirling fabric. Finally, she heads to Farmington, Minnesota, to see how lamp maker Shawn Carling turns castaway machine parts into hip, nostalgic lamps.
Episode 8
Tue, Apr 12, 201622 mins
Host Jill Wagner travels the country on a quest to find talented craftsmen who still make incredible items by hand. Her first stop is Minneapolis, where textile artist Kelly Marshall demonstrates how to use Scandinavian weaving techniques to turn thousands of yards of thread into intricately patterned rugs. Then, Jill heads to San Francisco, where she meets Steven Kilzer, an artisan who believes every pair of sunglasses should be made with old-fashioned quality and hands on attention. Finally, she travels to Pittstown, New Jersey, to visit former engineer Chuck Jacobi who gave up a hi-tech career to make handcrafted billiard tables.
Episode 9
Tue, Apr 19, 201622 mins
Host Jill Wagner travels the country on a quest to find talented craftsmen who still make incredible items by hand. Her first stop is St. Paul, Minnesota, where she meets Josephine Geiger, an artisan who creates stained-glass window panels that look like impressionistic landscapes. Next, Jill heads to Glen Rock, New Jersey, to visit Paul Cunningham, a leatherworker who converted his love of sports into a unique business making vintage baseball and footballs from alligator, ostrich, and other unusual leathers. Finally, in Mukwonago, Wisconsin, Jill works alongside Bob Dickey, a woodworker who demonstrates how to make exquisite, inlaid jewelry boxes.
Episode 10
Tue, Apr 26, 201622 mins
Host Jill Wagner travels the country on a quest to find talented craftsmen who still make incredible items by hand. Jill's first stop is the hat shop of John and Kate McLaughlin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the couple shows her how they make 21st century hats using 18th century tools and technology. Next, she travels to Santa Cruz, California, to hang out with Cody Dumont, a woodworker who makes longbows that draw as much admiration for their looks as their precision with arrows. Also in Santa Cruz, Martijn Stiphout, uses castoff wood from other woodworkers to build hollow wooden surfboards.
Episode 11
Tue, May 3, 201622 mins
Host Jill Wagner travels the country on a quest to find talented craftsmen who still make incredible items by hand. Her first stop is Charlotte, North Carolina, where designer Stan Fraser is making custom-fitted blue jeans using traditional techniques and high quality selvedge denim. Further north in Boston, furniture maker Paula Garbarino shows Jill how she uses the art of marquetry to create a painterly effect with paper-thin wood veneers. Finally, in Portland, Oregon, Jill visits the workshop of Chris Cardy, an entrepreneur who fabricates stylish steel and wood beds that can be customized to fit any customer's exacting standards.
Episode 12
Tue, May 10, 201622 mins
Host Jill Wagner travels the country on a quest to find talented craftsmen who still make incredible items by hand. Her first stop is Gardner, Massachusetts, where silversmith Peter Erickson continues a 100 year old family tradition by making heirloom sterling silver flatware. Then, Jill heads to Charlotte, North Carolina, to watch bird enthusiast and woodworker Shawn Weathers as he creates amazing aviaries with a nod to French Renaissance architecture. Her last stop is Portland, Oregon, where she visits the workshop of Tim Aaron, a craftsman who makes bamboo fly fishing rods that are every bit as durable as they are elegant.
Episode 13
Tue, May 17, 201622 mins
Host Jill Wagner travels the country on a quest to find talented craftsmen who still make incredible items by hand. Her first stop is Randleman, North Carolina, where James Broyhill, a woodworker with a legendary furniture lineage, shows her how to break down old whiskey barrels and turn them into rustic outdoor furniture. Then, Jill heads to Boston to visit a group of artisans who transform precious metals into some of the most sought after flutes in the world. Finally, Jill goes west to Portland, Oregon, where husband-and-wife team Jennifer and Ron Rich, repurpose old clothing rags into fine papers.
Episode 14
Fri, Jun 17, 201643 mins
Host Jill Wagner travels the country to seek out talented artisans who are making handcrafted products designed to appeal to men: handcrafted bamboo fishing rods, writing pens, baseballs, footballs, hunting knives, outdoor furniture, and more.