In New Jersey this was on Saturday evenings. Use to love asking my dad if he wanted to see what Norm was building when we couldn’t decide what to watch on tv
@@timmiller8495 In Georgia, it was on Saturday afternoon before This Old House came on. My grandfather was a terrific carpenter and would always like to watch this with me when he came to visit. Great memories!
When my wife and I got married we didn't have very much , but watching Norm and The New Yankee Shop gave me confidence and courage to build our furniture , and after 48 years we still have most of everything I built , thanks Norm 😊
These videos, and Norm, are somehow very reassuring. I remember how much I enjoyed them when they first aired. Norm, with his confident moves and calm voice, impart order and serenity in a jangled world of noise and disorder.
I recall loving the NYW's first episode [89?]; and the ease of understanding what Norm said with his economy of words. I grasped more from Norm in 5min, than 30min with others. As an American let me say this regarding disorder and the inability to: impart serenity, order, reassurance, confidence, etc. America is void of these today b/c "We The People" banned God from all the places He was once honored in favor of our sin. Since the 60's America has been experiencing the slow implosion associated with Gods hand of blessing being removed from their nation. God warned every nation to pay attention to this [Romans 1 v18-32], yet most have ignore/reject the message, and the Bible all together.
Nice to see that Norm used basic economical power tools that could be found in most home shops. I still have the 10" Ryobi thickness planer. He gave use the encouragement and direction to make things that we thought were beyond our capabilities. His was probably the finest, most practical and most useful of any woodworking program that I can remember. Thank you and bless you Norm.
To this day I still have the imprint of my son’s mood on our table while doing his homework many years ago. You have to crane your neck but it’s still there. It undeniably says “I hate school”. He’s graduating college in engineering this May.
I spent Saturday afternoons watching PBS with Norm Abram and Roy Underhill. They're why I took woodshop in high school. They're why I'm still working with wood.👍👍
Watching these old videos gives me an endless smile the whole way through. Thanks Norm for these great memories! I remember watching this on Saturday morning when I was just 13 years old.
Norm made a generation of woodworkers believe they could do what he was doing. Many of them succeeded! I built a few of his pieces like the blanket chest, the oak bathroom vanity, the Adirondack chairs and the bedside tables. My Adirondack chairs fell out of the back of my pickup truck and met their demise on the interstate. I still have the rest of the pieces. Looking back on it, if you're a brand-new woodworker with little to no tools, experience, equipment or shop space, start with the Adirondack chairs...they can be built with a bare minimum of tools and go together easily.
New subscriber, i remember not even knowing how to use any kinda of tools or anything. Thank you for your Sunday morning, and I'm sorry it took so long to find this channel. Thank you, Norm. It seems like i found an old friend. God bless you, sir.
A view from the UK. I started hobby woodworking way before NYW came onto TV over here (I guess I started around 1975) but the NYW was a Revolution for me and so many others. The medium, the teacher and the skills shown were just so powerful compared to what I found to be uninspiring UK woodworking magazines. I could also say that the NYW has cost me a lot of money over the years as I spent so much money on the workshop - but that money has given me so much pleasure that I begrudge not a penny. I can do less and less now because of age and that’s very frustrating as I have piles of timber just waiting for me. All I wish for Norm and the NYW team is health and loving families. With a large amount of gratitude from me
Thank you for sharing these classic episodes for posterity. It’s neat to see the projects before a dedicated mortising jig, biscuits, and much more. I especially liked the bead detail made on the table saw. Best wishes to Norm and his family.
@@newyankeeworkshop Reposting these shows is illegal and deceptive. Norm Abrams needs a lawyer. The New Yankee Workshop on You Tube is a GHOST site. Very very creepy.
Season 1 was made in 1989. Notice Norm did not have dust collection, no spiral-head cutter on his planer, his radial arm saw was from Sears with a wobble blade and his drill press was a ShopSmith. You came do some great woodworking without it costing you a small fortune.
That ShopSmith drill press was 1 of 2 ShopSmith Mark V's he owned. This first one was given to him by his father and tge 2nd by ShopSmith. The 2nd was mostly used as a lathe from what I recall.
That’s fine if on that season he doesn’t have dust collection, but when using a planner for thickness, put a damn garbage can in front of the tool so it doesn’t end up on the floor!
Thanks for sharing these! I was a teenager when this one aired. I was in wood shop in high school and caught many episodes. We didn't get to build big projects, but we definitely got the read, understand, and follow the instructions for the tools as well as the most important one, safety glasses!
Thank you Norm and Russell for reposting these they mean more to me now than ever as the sands in the hour glass are nearly running out and my little time left is just me wallowing away in the shop on projects I learned for you two.
Thanks Norman for all the good old days info and tips we all learn from the best show ever in woodworking im smashing my like botton Texas style yahoooooooooo katakaboooooooooooooooom
Wow, 1980s woodworking in all its glory! Radial arm saw, dial-a-dado, moulding heads in the table saw...even a Shop Smith! I grew up watching Norm and built my kitchen based on his kitchen cabinetry series. Thanks for sharing this early episode.
I love watching these shows. His use of different tools for the same type of work really helps people get an idea of how to do things when they might not have the same tool. The idea of doing the top in two parts is excellent. But, I wonder why he said there was a problem with alignment. Biscuits are the best for aligning any boards that need to be joined. It would've been nice to see him using a beading bit in the router table. That shaper head he used in the table saw is very expensive.
I agree if you watch enough episodes you see he shows many ways to do the same task which teaches us to adapt to a situation using what we have. Building your own jigs is a whole new level.
Norm was absoluetly the inspiration for me to create a woodworking shop. Although my skills and attention to detail are nothing compared to his this has given me great joy and a lifetime hobby that I still enjoy today.
I wonder if Norm is aware of just how much he has influenced woodworkers in the US. I know MANY of woodworkers my age who discovered it as a hobby through Norm and The New Yankee Workshop - including me. When I was young and cartoons ended two shows always followed - This Old House and The New Yankee Workshop - and I came to look more forward to those than the cartoons. Though I've moved beyond the techniques Norm uses in these videos, he inspired me to become a woodworker. Thank you Norm. Always the master of masters.
I loved watching Norm more than 30 years ago. I just found these old episodes on You Tube and immediately subscribed. I built this exact table just after Norm did it using oak. It is still as firm and beautiful as ever having aged gracefully over the years. Thanks to Norm and company for all the expert hints and shows over the years.
Love seeing those early episodes. How his collection of power tools has evolved over the years. Looking forward to ordering some of the plans when they are made available again.
So happy this popped up on my YT home page. Norm and NYW are the reason this city boy fell in love with woodworking. Thank you Mr. Norm Abrams! Watching this video you can see how the style of the NYW shows paved the way for thousands of UA-cam woodworking channels. Can't believe how basic Norm's equipment was in the early days. I'm kicking myself for giving away that Radial Arm Saw. 😂
It is SO great to see these classic woodworking shows on UA-cam that doesn't try to get you to subscribe or buy a certain tool using their affiliate links! Please don't ever remove these classics! Thank you so much!
Used to watch these with my brother in law, Gareth. Damn we used to enjoy Norman, and he was the perfect excuse for new tools. In this episode it becomes obvious that one needs a loooooooooong clamp.!
I'm getting a kick out of these old episodes. Saturday mornings came to a full stop when NYW came on the local PBS affiliate. I watched for many years. Then, in 1999, I got tired of watching and decided to start doing. Nearly a quarter century later, I have that dream shop in a separate building and I've built many things. I still have the trestle table I built about 2004; I'm sitting at it right now. It's all Norm's fault! 😀😀😀
I love these show so much. It is so educational and direct. Nowadays every craft show seems to be a competition, where speed is the name of the game. It seems dangerous to rush people using power tools in the name of entertainment. I look forward to rewatching all of the Old New Yankee Workshop episodes. They are an inspiration. ❤️❤️❤️
norm, you and Russ and largely responsible for my hobby. I'm enjoying these early episodes where you had early tools! fun to see how things progressed over the years
Norm Abram is the Julia Child of woodworking! Clearly in love with what he does, possessing of a deep knowledge of his subject and completely unselfish in his willingness to share all he knows. Like Julia, he seems to delight in taking the mystery out of what he does in a way that inspires confidence in his viewers. From Julia, I continue to learn to this day how to grace our family and friends with wonderful meals that were fun to make. And from Norm? Well, those people are eating on the table I built thanks to him!
One reason they are so similar is Russ Morash did both Julia Child and New Yankee (not to mention This Old House and Victory Garden)! Russ is the OG "how to" producer / director.
I watched these with a near religious regulatory when I was younger. It was always a running joke in my house that one day, Norm would build some sort of world domination thing, with his trademark calm and cheery voice, step by step and finish it with a nice cherry veneer and a complementary stain. Watching this one now brought back that memory and I laughed. It's been a while since I had that kind of warm memory to recall. So glad these are here.
Wow this popped up in my feed 100% subscribed watching these back in the day .. the memorys flood back . I'm in the UK norm was an inspiration and I work with wood now. Cheers norm
That was a Ryobi AP10 planer. I had one and used it for years until I upgraded to a Jet 15” planer. I especially like the blade carrier and alignment jig.
You cannot fully appreciate Norm's skills and craftmanship unless you have actually worked in a wood shop with this equipment. None of it is as easy as he makes it look. I do love watching someone who is good at it.
I've met Norm a couple of times at home improvement shows here in NJ the last time was at our local home depot where he and Kevin appeared as part of the 25th anniversary of this old house tour, they had a tent set up in the parking lot, I had my picture taken with them and I got norms autograph, Pluto tv has this old house reruns.
I was an avid fan when this show started. A radial arm saw, a drill press, using a belt sander to flatten table tops. Compared to other YT'ers Norm is the king. These guys have the best of everything. Fein power tools, track saws, CNC machines and so on.. It's gotten ridiculous. 99.9 percent of us will never own these tools. Norm inspired me to build nice things with realistic tools I had at hand or could realistically obtain. Did you check out that router table? LOL Watching this old video brings back that itch to create useful products.
Based on Norm's specs from this show and from his book, I built a pine trestle table. I increased the length and the width from the original plan. It was ready for our 2016 TG with family. Has been the center of attention ever since. I used pine for mine although I cheated a little by using 4x8 sheet of oak plywood underneath and laying the pine boards on top. I came out very nice although I can see some of my mistakes. A year later I built a companion bench for the table. Thanks Norm!!
Norm is SO young here. Of course, 30+ years ago we all were a lot younger. It's so interesting to see how this early show contrasts with the later shows. New tools (especially a big router table that he built), better videography, different techniques, and more. Fun fact. Especially when I have a beard, we look quite a bit alike. I've had a number of strangers over the years (once, even in a woodworking store) see me and spontaneously exclaim that I'm a dead ringer for Norm. I'm honored whenever I hear that.
I built the trestle table out of oak about 25 years ago. We still use it in our dining room. I built the top a lot larger than Norm's, but t he legs I built the same as he did.
Watching this episode really drove home how much has changed. Not the radial saw, now the wobble style dado stack, not even the lack of dust collection. Nope, the $3 /bf for 6/4 cherry drove it home.
My dad has done woodworking and we watched the Yankee Workshop and Thid Old House (going back to the Bob Villa days) regularly every week. While I do not have the skill for finishing carpentry or the equipment, i have picked up tricks that would help me do some basic repairs and build simple things. I'm always very impressed with the craftsmanship and love that deep finish produced by a stain and 7 (I seem to remember a number around there) coats of polyurethane, with a light sanding in between ofcourse.
Still using my old pistol grip Mikita router for hand held bearing piloted work! I’ve been wanting to make a classic wedged tusk tenon trestle for years. Have a young friend trying to build one. Will share this.
I am really looking forward to the return to You Tube and the web. Especially looking forward to getting his plans listed somewhere that we can buy. This table is is one I would like to get my hands on for sure.
I bought that trestle table from Ikea back when my kids were in grade school. My youngest is now 40. That design, including the shape of the feet on the legs, the cross-bar secured with wedges, is nearly identical. The material you're using is probably better than what Ikea used, but it's the same design.
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Seeing these episodes brings back memories of Sunday mornings with my dad watching New Yankee workshop. Norm is an inspiration.
I couldn't wait for Sunday mornings.
In New Jersey this was on Saturday evenings. Use to love asking my dad if he wanted to see what Norm was building when we couldn’t decide what to watch on tv
@@timmiller8495 In Georgia, it was on Saturday afternoon before This Old House came on.
My grandfather was a terrific carpenter and would always like to watch this with me when he came to visit.
Great memories!
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@@timmiller8495 I was there too, WHYY Philadelphia.
When my wife and I got married we didn't have very much , but watching Norm and The New Yankee Shop gave me confidence and courage to build our furniture , and after 48 years we still have most of everything I built , thanks Norm 😊
SO cool!! I learned a ton from Norm as well!
My dad built this table, my sisters have it now. It’s a treasured possession.
These videos, and Norm, are somehow very reassuring. I remember how much I enjoyed them when they first aired. Norm, with his confident moves and calm voice, impart order and serenity in a jangled world of noise and disorder.
I recall loving the NYW's first episode [89?]; and the ease of understanding what Norm said with his economy of words. I grasped more from Norm in 5min, than 30min with others. As an American let me say this regarding disorder and the inability to: impart serenity, order, reassurance, confidence, etc. America is void of these today b/c "We The People" banned God from all the places He was once honored in favor of our sin.
Since the 60's America has been experiencing the slow implosion associated with Gods hand of blessing being removed from their nation. God warned every nation to pay attention to this [Romans 1 v18-32], yet most have ignore/reject the message, and the Bible all together.
Man I cannot tell you how much I loved watching this show as a kid.
Watching Norm got me going in woodworking, now I have my own cabinet shop
Nice to see that Norm used basic economical power tools that could be found in most home shops. I still have the 10" Ryobi thickness planer. He gave use the encouragement and direction to make things that we thought were beyond our capabilities. His was probably the finest, most practical and most useful of any woodworking program that I can remember. Thank you and bless you Norm.
To this day I still have the imprint of my son’s mood on our table while doing his homework many years ago. You have to crane your neck but it’s still there. It undeniably says “I hate school”. He’s graduating college in engineering this May.
I spent Saturday afternoons watching PBS with Norm Abram and Roy Underhill. They're why I took woodshop in high school. They're why I'm still working with wood.👍👍
Watching these old videos gives me an endless smile the whole way through. Thanks Norm for these great memories! I remember watching this on Saturday morning when I was just 13 years old.
These transfers to digital video are quite good. They look far better than my rabbit ears and 19" CRT could do back when this episode first aired.
I agree.
I used to watch this every weekend.... I dont know why, but these shows had a euphoric feeling to me. So calming and relaxing to watch.
$3 a board foot! I'd buy that all day long!
Lovely to see Norm doing his stuff , feels like a comfortable pair of slippers in a cosy armchair.....
It's 30 years ago and I'm sitting in the living room floor watching this with my grandpa.
Love these episodes. Norm and this show can take a large amount of credit for the woodworking hobby we see today.
Great to see these shows again. It's like having an old friend you haven't seen in years drop by.
Thanks Norm for all that you have taught me. My all time favorite tv show!
Norm made a generation of woodworkers believe they could do what he was doing. Many of them succeeded! I built a few of his pieces like the blanket chest, the oak bathroom vanity, the Adirondack chairs and the bedside tables. My Adirondack chairs fell out of the back of my pickup truck and met their demise on the interstate. I still have the rest of the pieces. Looking back on it, if you're a brand-new woodworker with little to no tools, experience, equipment or shop space, start with the Adirondack chairs...they can be built with a bare minimum of tools and go together easily.
The Adirondack chair is our most popular plan. It's a great "first" woodworking project. Hopefully you can put Humpty Dumpty back together again 😀
New subscriber, i remember not even knowing how to use any kinda of tools or anything. Thank you for your Sunday morning, and I'm sorry it took so long to find this channel. Thank you, Norm. It seems like i found an old friend. God bless you, sir.
The man is a national treasure
A view from the UK. I started hobby woodworking way before NYW came onto TV over here (I guess I started around 1975) but the NYW was a Revolution for me and so many others. The medium, the teacher and the skills shown were just so powerful compared to what I found to be uninspiring UK woodworking magazines. I could also say that the NYW has cost me a lot of money over the years as I spent so much money on the workshop - but that money has given me so much pleasure that I begrudge not a penny. I can do less and less now because of age and that’s very frustrating as I have piles of timber just waiting for me.
All I wish for Norm and the NYW team is health and loving families. With a large amount of gratitude from me
I loved watching this when I was growing it. This is the reason why I got into woodworking
Really brings me back. Hard to believe I watched this when it aired over 30 years ago. Thanks for the memories Norm.
Thank you for sharing these classic episodes for posterity. It’s neat to see the projects before a dedicated mortising jig, biscuits, and much more. I especially liked the bead detail made on the table saw. Best wishes to Norm and his family.
Thanks for watching. Glad you enjoy the show.
He's retired from this now I don't think he even does this old house anymore
@@newyankeeworkshop Reposting these shows is illegal and deceptive. Norm Abrams needs a lawyer. The New Yankee Workshop on You Tube is a GHOST site. Very very creepy.
@@stevenwarner7348 Hey Steve. Not at all. Perhaps you should watch this:
ua-cam.com/video/KkNhWgoTtd8/v-deo.html
@@newyankeeworkshop Deceptive and Wrong!
Watching this just brings me back as a little kid loved watching this on the weekends good memories
Season 1 was made in 1989. Notice Norm did not have dust collection, no spiral-head cutter on his planer, his radial arm saw was from Sears with a wobble blade and his drill press was a ShopSmith. You came do some great woodworking without it costing you a small fortune.
That ShopSmith drill press was 1 of 2 ShopSmith Mark V's he owned. This first one was given to him by his father and tge 2nd by ShopSmith. The 2nd was mostly used as a lathe from what I recall.
That’s fine if on that season he doesn’t have dust collection, but when using a planner for thickness, put a damn garbage can in front of the tool so it doesn’t end up on the floor!
Norm is the OG shop teacher all of America had for 39 years.
Ahhh.....memories of NYW and This Old House. Showed us the possibilities and ushered in the "Can Do" era.
Thanks for sharing these! I was a teenager when this one aired. I was in wood shop in high school and caught many episodes. We didn't get to build big projects, but we definitely got the read, understand, and follow the instructions for the tools as well as the most important one, safety glasses!
Norm is the man! 😊 I love watching him.
Boy, does this bring back good memories!
Thank you Norm and Russell for reposting these they mean more to me now than ever as the sands in the hour glass are nearly running out and my little time left is just me wallowing away in the shop on projects I learned for you two.
It is so interesting to watch Norm again. I really learned woodworking by watching him years ago. My how tools and process has changed.
Thanks Norman for all the good old days info and tips we all learn from the best show ever in woodworking im smashing my like botton Texas style yahoooooooooo katakaboooooooooooooooom
Wow, 1980s woodworking in all its glory! Radial arm saw, dial-a-dado, moulding heads in the table saw...even a Shop Smith! I grew up watching Norm and built my kitchen based on his kitchen cabinetry series. Thanks for sharing this early episode.
I love watching these shows. His use of different tools for the same type of work really helps people get an idea of how to do things when they might not have the same tool. The idea of doing the top in two parts is excellent. But, I wonder why he said there was a problem with alignment. Biscuits are the best for aligning any boards that need to be joined. It would've been nice to see him using a beading bit in the router table. That shaper head he used in the table saw is very expensive.
I agree if you watch enough episodes you see he shows many ways to do the same task which teaches us to adapt to a situation using what we have. Building your own jigs is a whole new level.
Norm was absoluetly the inspiration for me to create a woodworking shop. Although my skills and attention to detail are nothing compared to his this has given me great joy and a lifetime hobby that I still enjoy today.
mind blower. my dad made a similar design when i was a boy. i appreciate my dad even more. thanks
The world need people like quality craftsmanship 👍🛫🌺
Thanks Norm. I'm learning so much from you. Much appreciated. Be well.
I wonder if Norm is aware of just how much he has influenced woodworkers in the US. I know MANY of woodworkers my age who discovered it as a hobby through Norm and The New Yankee Workshop - including me. When I was young and cartoons ended two shows always followed - This Old House and The New Yankee Workshop - and I came to look more forward to those than the cartoons. Though I've moved beyond the techniques Norm uses in these videos, he inspired me to become a woodworker. Thank you Norm. Always the master of masters.
Brings back memories of nicer times.
Wow, I have not see these in a long time. Very interesting. Love watching these
Norm: smart confident and efficient craftsman.
This was my most favorite and earliest classroom!
I loved watching Norm more than 30 years ago. I just found these old episodes on You Tube and immediately subscribed. I built this exact table just after Norm did it using oak. It is still as firm and beautiful as ever having aged gracefully over the years. Thanks to Norm and company for all the expert hints and shows over the years.
I was binge watching NYW for a long while when I found it 15yrears ago! I loved the educational part of it and of course... the safety glasses...
This is like going into the attic and opening that box from a previous century.... Oh wait.... Love it thank you.
The Master of Master Woodworker's! Such a great step by step instructor.
Greetings from the BIG SKY. This man taught me how to make furniture.
Love seeing those early episodes. How his collection of power tools has evolved over the years. Looking forward to ordering some of the plans when they are made available again.
I still have my original plans in a box somewhere! I really ought to dig those out
What a beautiful piece. Such great work there Norm.. Love it..!!
So happy this popped up on my YT home page. Norm and NYW are the reason this city boy fell in love with woodworking. Thank you Mr. Norm Abrams!
Watching this video you can see how the style of the NYW shows paved the way for thousands of UA-cam woodworking channels. Can't believe how basic Norm's equipment was in the early days.
I'm kicking myself for giving away that Radial Arm Saw. 😂
Beautiful!
This episode originally aired 34 years ago! I remember watching NYW when it was first run. Norm Abram was the best! Temp us fugit!
Such a blessing to have these shows back. Originally, I would watch them and get inspiration for my projects. Thank you Norm, You are truly a master.
Glad you like them!
just found out that you are on youtube.really missed your show but now I can see them again. thanks Norm
It is SO great to see these classic woodworking shows on UA-cam that doesn't try to get you to subscribe or buy a certain tool using their affiliate links! Please don't ever remove these classics! Thank you so much!
Used to watch these with my brother in law, Gareth. Damn we used to enjoy Norman, and he was the perfect excuse for new tools. In this episode it becomes obvious that one needs a loooooooooong clamp.!
I'm getting a kick out of these old episodes. Saturday mornings came to a full stop when NYW came on the local PBS affiliate. I watched for many years. Then, in 1999, I got tired of watching and decided to start doing. Nearly a quarter century later, I have that dream shop in a separate building and I've built many things. I still have the trestle table I built about 2004; I'm sitting at it right now. It's all Norm's fault! 😀😀😀
I love these show so much. It is so educational and direct. Nowadays every craft show seems to be a competition, where speed is the name of the game. It seems dangerous to rush people using power tools in the name of entertainment. I look forward to rewatching all of the Old New Yankee Workshop episodes. They are an inspiration. ❤️❤️❤️
I totally agree with you. I love the educational quality of this show.
Thank you Russ for sharing these videos. I watched them all when they first came out. Norm is fantastic and I always liked the Radial Arm Saw!!!
norm, you and Russ and largely responsible for my hobby. I'm enjoying these early episodes where you had early tools! fun to see how things progressed over the years
I've missed this show growing up 🥺
I never missed a episode. The New Yankee Workshop was my favorite show back in the day. Norm will forget more then I will ever know.
Thank you for posting these!
You're welcome.
Absolutely enjoyable to watch & learn intricate details of a master at his work Thank you
I love Norm's New Yankee Workshop. I hope Norm is doing well.
He is retired but doing well. He stops by on occasion: ua-cam.com/video/puqSgmRLi38/v-deo.html
I’ll have to wait Norm work because he he he every little detail here so colorful I love that about him
Norm Abram is the Julia Child of woodworking! Clearly in love with what he does, possessing of a deep knowledge of his subject and completely unselfish in his willingness to share all he knows. Like Julia, he seems to delight in taking the mystery out of what he does in a way that inspires confidence in his viewers. From Julia, I continue to learn to this day how to grace our family and friends with wonderful meals that were fun to make. And from Norm? Well, those people are eating on the table I built thanks to him!
I have always thought of Norm as the Bob Ross of carpentry. Funny how all the greats came from PBS.
One reason they are so similar is Russ Morash did both Julia Child and New Yankee (not to mention This Old House and Victory Garden)! Russ is the OG "how to" producer / director.
That jointer....Norm deserves an aircraft carrier of a unit in his shop!
I watched these with a near religious regulatory when I was younger. It was always a running joke in my house that one day, Norm would build some sort of world domination thing, with his trademark calm and cheery voice, step by step and finish it with a nice cherry veneer and a complementary stain.
Watching this one now brought back that memory and I laughed. It's been a while since I had that kind of warm memory to recall. So glad these are here.
Use too love watching this on PBS as a kid,teenager and adult. Specially when he built something with no power tools
Wow this popped up in my feed 100% subscribed watching these back in the day .. the memorys flood back . I'm in the UK norm was an inspiration and I work with wood now. Cheers norm
I remember when you made this table, Norm. I've never forgotten the breadboard ends. Beautiful!
an amazing craftsman. Happy retirement Norm
That was a Ryobi AP10 planer. I had one and used it for years until I upgraded to a Jet 15” planer. I especially like the blade carrier and alignment jig.
You cannot fully appreciate Norm's skills and craftmanship unless you have actually worked in a wood shop with this equipment. None of it is as easy as he makes it look. I do love watching someone who is good at it.
Spectacular job, Bravo
Norm is the Chuck Norris of wood working.
Memories, THANK YOU
I've met Norm a couple of times at home improvement shows here in NJ the last time was at our local home depot where he and Kevin appeared as part of the 25th anniversary of this old house tour, they had a tent set up in the parking lot, I had my picture taken with them and I got norms autograph, Pluto tv has this old house reruns.
Your copy of that Nantucket dining table is very attractive, Norm.
I was an avid fan when this show started. A radial arm saw, a drill press, using a belt sander to flatten table tops. Compared to other YT'ers Norm is the king. These guys have the best of everything. Fein power tools, track saws, CNC machines and so on.. It's gotten ridiculous. 99.9 percent of us will never own these tools. Norm inspired me to build nice things with realistic tools I had at hand or could realistically obtain. Did you check out that router table? LOL Watching this old video brings back that itch to create useful products.
Yep i have some beautiful lumber i saved from my kitchen remodel and this is the table i will be making from it
Thank you for sharing your expertise
I sat next to dad watching these shows.
I need to remind him!
Based on Norm's specs from this show and from his book, I built a pine trestle table. I increased the length and the width from the original plan. It was ready for our 2016 TG with family. Has been the center of attention ever since. I used pine for mine although I cheated a little by using 4x8 sheet of oak plywood underneath and laying the pine boards on top. I came out very nice although I can see some of my mistakes. A year later I built a companion bench for the table. Thanks Norm!!
Nice Work...Imagine building this table with the hand tools from 100+ yrs. ago.🤔😉
Norm is SO young here. Of course, 30+ years ago we all were a lot younger.
It's so interesting to see how this early show contrasts with the later shows. New tools (especially a big router table that he built), better videography, different techniques, and more.
Fun fact. Especially when I have a beard, we look quite a bit alike. I've had a number of strangers over the years (once, even in a woodworking store) see me and spontaneously exclaim that I'm a dead ringer for Norm. I'm honored whenever I hear that.
He was 39. He looks a lot younger to my eye now than he did 34 years ago!
I built the trestle table out of oak about 25 years ago. We still use it in our dining room. I built the top a lot larger than Norm's, but t he legs I built the same as he did.
Watching this episode really drove home how much has changed. Not the radial saw, now the wobble style dado stack, not even the lack of dust collection. Nope, the $3 /bf for 6/4 cherry drove it home.
My dad has done woodworking and we watched the Yankee Workshop and Thid Old House (going back to the Bob Villa days) regularly every week. While I do not have the skill for finishing carpentry or the equipment, i have picked up tricks that would help me do some basic repairs and build simple things.
I'm always very impressed with the craftsmanship and love that deep finish produced by a stain and 7 (I seem to remember a number around there) coats of polyurethane, with a light sanding in between ofcourse.
Still using my old pistol grip Mikita router for hand held bearing piloted work! I’ve been wanting to make a classic wedged tusk tenon trestle for years. Have a young friend trying to build one. Will share this.
I am really looking forward to the return to You Tube and the web. Especially looking forward to getting his plans listed somewhere that we can buy. This table is is one I would like to get my hands on for sure.
Plans will be coming back in February. Enjoy the shows in the meantime!
I bought that trestle table from Ikea back when my kids were in grade school. My youngest is now 40. That design, including the shape of the feet on the legs, the cross-bar secured with wedges, is nearly identical. The material you're using is probably better than what Ikea used, but it's the same design.
I wonder what happened to all the beautiful pieces and projects made in this series. Lovely to watch. Thank you.
Looks to me like a great beginner's project!
$3.00 a board foot!!!! Those days are long gone.
Great stuff Norm!