Attention Norm Acolytes

[Ruffnek]

At the New Yankee Workshop web site, you can view a selected webcast episode of the NYW. This week, they are showing episode 101...the very first show. Norm doesn't even use brad nails in that first show...he uses drywall screws and 4d finish nails. ;D

For those who followed Norm over the years, it's interesting to see how spare the shop was in those days. He is also using the Shopsmith which he replaced with a Unisaw for the second year.

A different episode will be webcast each week.

[Leo Voisine]

BIG - difference from episode 101 and the latest episodes.

Craftsman RAS??

Was that a Craftsman table saw?

Shopsmith drill press.

Drum sander - on the shopsmith -- not even OSS.

Craftsman router table.

WOW - not the norm - for Norm.

How many safty voilations dod YOU see.

Ahhh - but is was nice to watch anyway.

[yknot]

OMG!!!! Guys, I went lookin into his site this evening and I ran like a little boy to tell my wife that Norm was back, kinda!!!

Yeah, I did notice the safety and tool changes!! again, Wow!! as a newbie, I've seen a couple of things to remember already and am looking forward to learning alot more.
Better than a woodshop class, I say!!!!

[dcarter636]

That's good to know; I've thought that the first ten years were far more instructive than the last ten years were. Now I can see if my remembery was right.

[sawduster]

Jan 2, 2010 5:00:45 GMT -6 dcarter636 said:

That's good to know; I've thought that the first ten years were far more instructive than the last ten years were. Now I can see if my remembery was right.

The reason you thought that was that the stuff from the early shows is in long term memory and the later shows in short term. The long term is locked pretty much place, but the short term isn't. You're just remembering more from the early days.

[dcarter636]

Likely you're right Jerry, I probably just cherish them better along with walking to school barefoot 20 miles through the snow with a cold tater and a biscuit for my lunch.

LOML pointed out that the first shows probably had more appeal to me because Norm's spare tool array was more in line with my hobbyist means, no $2000 power tools made to appear necessary to do good work.

It was an early installment where he made a small table with a single drawer that got me going; that little table was the first piece that I made for inside our home and it is still in use with it's cracked top (turns out there's a good reason why you really shouldn't glue on bread board ends). Up until then we mostly just made wooden toys, simple boxes, a play house, and shop/garage furnishings.