New Yankee Workshop host Norm Abram is a woodworker, plumber, electrician, welder, TV show host and an auto mechanic to name a few of his vocations. DN editor-in-chief John Dodge is the interviewer.

Norm Abram studied mechanical engineering in college and makes comparisons between woodworking and engineering.

New Yankee Workshop (NYW) host Norm Abram chose space-aged fastening systems to use in NYW kitchen. The draw rails from Blum Manufacturing are particularly noteworthy.

New Yankee Workshop's Norm Abram explains how to construct a strong cabinet. Norm and NYW Executive Producer Russell Morash show their preferences for glues and screws.

Don’t want to pay for fortune for kitchen cabinets? Then watch the 2008 New Yankee Workshop series starting in January when Norm Abram revamps a 30-year-old kitchen.

The creation of the New Yankee Workshop was pure imagination expressed in a casual discussion between NYW host Norm Abram and executive producer and director Russell Morash. Hear them tell it in their own words.

New Yankee Workshop executive producer and director Russell Morash helped start The French Chef with the late Julia Child, The Victory Garden and This Old House. Some call him the father of how-to television.

Most of the time New Yankee Workshop (NYW) host Norm Abram builds prototypes, but sometimes he doesn’t. And he always looks to impart some new technique or tool in every NYW episode.