Messge from WGBH regarding Norm

Norm has been working two shows for all these years and this is only one show he is retiring from . It had a great run my interest in woodworking was brought about buy these two shows .Thanks Norm and thanks Mr. morash.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop, custom furniture ,maker, woodworking school, http://www.heirloomwoodshop.com/

While I am exceedingly grateful for the decades of dedication, and innovation that Norm, and Mr. Morash have brought to us, and I am saddened by the loss of The New Yankee Workshop, I think that with each door that closes, another one opens. I am excited to see who will take the place of Norm. I think some young blood with a good sense of humor to liven things up would be great. Let’s see if we can get someone like Marc Spagnulo to do the next show.

-- Trying to follow the example of the master.

Good point maybe they can alternate with Charles Neil (young enough for me) Tommy (aka T Chisel) and any of a dozen or more of top LJs members.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop, custom furniture ,maker, woodworking school, http://www.heirloomwoodshop.com/

Maybe this is selfish but I wish he would have retired from This Old House and kept going in the NYW. I watch both and like both but I get more out of NYW.

NYW was truly made for people like us, sure part of it was to make money too, but PBS isn’t as greedy as the Networks. Take Wood Works, another excellent show, David J Marks was a woodworker and an artist and it showed in his work. But the production company was in it for the money, strictly. They did a 5 year run and are getting the residuals from the reruns. That show could have easily gone another 5, 10 years, maybe more.

I emailed David when I noticed they stopped producing new shows and got a response back. What I got from his response was that he didn’t want to quit, he said that if I wanted more shows to let the DIY Network know, so I did, I emailed them too. Still got DIY’s wishy-washy not committal response around someplace, they didn’t admit it was canceled but they didn’t say there were going to be more new shows either.

-- -Curt, Milwaukee, WI

Too bad he didn’t retire form TOH:-(( Good to hear he retired instead of all other possibilities:-))

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.

I think I watched that show for a year before I bought my first woodworking tool ( Shopsmith Mark V), I can honestly say he put the woodworking bug in my vanes. That was probably about 15 years ago. I know you can only watch someone make dado joints and use biscuts just so many times but I still enjoyed watching every episode and actually looked forward to them, it was like a visit from an old friend.I built three of Norms projects and had a lot of fun and learned a bit doing them. Some say he doesn’t really do “fine woodworking” but he will always be a woodworking icon in my mind. It was nice when DIY started David Marks WOODWORKS just from the caliber of projects alone but I see that is history too. Looks like it’s up to T Chisel to keep my woodworking fix up and thank god for this site too!!!

-- Paul Sayre Creativity is a drug I cannot live without. Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)