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The New Yankee Workshop Calls it Quits?

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Forum topic by snowdog posted 30 days ago 303 views 0 times favorited 8 replies Add to Favorites Watch
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snowdog

808 posts in 875 days


30 days ago

I just saw this :
The New Yankee
Workshop Calls it Quits
WOOD Magazine just received word from WGBH in Boston that The New Yankee Workshop is ending production after 21 seasons. Norm Abram, the carpenter turned furnituremaker made famous by this show, will continue to host This Old House on PBS, now in its 30th year. “We’ve had a great run, built challenging projects, met wonderful woodworkers, and received loyal support from millions of viewers,” Norm said in a press release.

I am happy for Norm but sad at the same time.

-- "so much to learn and so little time"..

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Dick, & Barb Cain

7034 posts in 1192 days


30 days ago

I guess he’s sort of a free man now.

It must be a very high pressure job trying to meet the deadline for one of his shows.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

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a1Jim

16598 posts in 470 days


30 days ago

This is about the fifth post here it’s in Fww and wood He will be missed.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

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MrHudon

26 posts in 102 days


30 days ago

Wondering what’s going to happen to the 30 or so routers that Norm used to use, didn’t he have one for every router bit ??? ; )

-- Mark, www.mrhudon.com

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degoose

1980 posts in 247 days


30 days ago

Mark he did not have as many routers as Jim.
Good luck to “Nahm” an inspiration to so many worldwide.

-- Drink once, cut twice. New website up.... lazylarrywoodworks.com.au

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Kram79

22 posts in 30 days


29 days ago

I grew up with that show and still look forward to watching the repeats each week.

-- You can never have enough tools

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Joe Lyddon

481 posts in 945 days


29 days ago

On a local PBS station last night, they ran his shows starting at midnight & running through to 4am!

I didn’t get much sleep last night… just through ones I hadn’t recently seen… yawn…

... going to bed early tonight… ... yawn…

-- Have Fun! Joe Lyddon - Alta Loma, CA USA - Home: http://www.WoodworkStuff.net ... My Small Gallery: http://www.ncwoodworker.net/pp/showgallery.php?ppuser=1389&cat=500"

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Daniel Dugan

7 posts in 58 days


29 days ago

I was living in an apartment near the medical center in San Antonio with no time, and no money the first time I saw Norm. Even though I had no wood working experience, and very little personal history of even being ‘handy’, something about creating furniture as I saw Norm do it hooked me. Anyway, here I am, more a tool collector than a furniture builder, but I am getting closer to the work I want to be doing every year. I am grateful to Norm’s careful and patient teaching and the great work that the many people working behind the scenes put into creating that show. I will enjoy the reruns.

-- -Daniel. "To be, rather than to seem" (not my words, but I like them)

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panther

36 posts in 135 days


28 days ago

say it ain’t so, it’s like losing a master, what will we do without our weekly dose of norm

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