Norm Abram's New Yankee Workshop
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Welcome to the Workshop. The New Yankee Workshop, that is. Design News' Editor-in-Chief John Dodge recently visited NYW host Norm Abram to see what new, cutting edge materials, fasteners and wood working techniques the carpentry guru has up his sleeve. Read our in-depth features, watch our behind-the-scenes videos and listen to our podcasts with show creators for a look inside the Workshop. |
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NYW Host Norm Abram: A Jack AND Master of All Trades
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.
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Engineering Lessons from NYW Host Norm Abram
Norm Abram studied mechanical engineering in college and makes comparisons between woodworking and engineering.
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NYW Host Norm Abram on Fasteners
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.
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NYW Host Norm Abram on Cabinet Construction
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.
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How Norm Abram and Russell Morash Got the Idea for a Kitchen Series
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.
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How New Yankee Workshop was Hatched
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.
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How Russell Morash Started "How-To" Television
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.
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How NYW Host Norm Abram Prepares for the Show
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.
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SawStop table Saw Senses Difference between Flesh and Wood
SawStop creator Stephen Gass solves the challenges of sensing flesh and quickly stopping a spinning, 4,000-rpm blade with this innovative table saw.
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Hosted by master carpenter Norm Abram, who is legendary for his woodworking skills, The New Yankee Workshop has guided millions of viewers through the hands-on process of furniture making. Read More
The Master Woodbutcher's Salute to Norm Page
Visit this site for a complete NYW episode guide and a list of the tools Norm has used on the show. Read More
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Titebond glues first squirted out of the bottle in the mid-1950s. Is Titebond IV just around the corner? Read More
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