Handcrafted America: Season 2
Season 2 Premieres Oct. 21st at 9:30p ET

Rocking Chairs, Banjos, Fishing Hoop Nets

Owen Rein    Steve Huber  ♦  Larry Haycraft

Rocking Chairs, Banjos, Fishing Hoop Nets | Host Jill Wagner travels the country on a quest to find talented craftsmen who still make incredible items by hand. She starts in Mountain View, Arkansas with Owen Rein. Owen harvests his own trees and whittles them into stately rocking chairs.

In Hendersonville, Tennessee, banjo maker Steve Huber shows Jill how he has rescued the endangered sound of a classic 1930’s banjo by combining his musical ear and engineering knowledge. Finally, in Petersburg, Indiana, Larry Haycraft is a 4th generation fishing hoop net maker. He shows Jill how he can spend two weeks making the knots for a single net.

PHOTOS  ♦  ARTISANS

ROCKING CHAIRS  |  Owen Rein

When Owen Rein sees a tree, he sees a rocking chair. Living in a rustic cabin in the Arkansas forest, Owen forages wood from his 40 acres of land and crafts it into beautiful… Read more

MEET OWEN | PHOTOS

BANJOS  |  Steve Huber

When looking to reverse engineer a classic bluegrass banjo, it would behoove one to have a professional music background, as well as the education and training of an engineer. Luckily Steve Huber is that man… Read more

MEET STEVE | PHOTOS

FISHING HOOP NETS  |  Larry Haycraft

As a fourth generation hoop fishing net maker, Larry Haycraft has a seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of life on the river. He says fish net making, in general, is “the oldest craft… Read more

MEET LARRY | PHOTOS

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