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[horsecow]

Is it just me or would anyone else absolutely love a workshop kitted out like Norm's?? I don't think the wife would ever see me if I had all those toys to play with!   

[zirk]

Urm, what, link or pic.

[horsecow]

I was talking about this programme Zirk http://www.newyankee.com/, but if you haven't seen it before then the link isn't much good I guess

[SIR Philbutt]

Oh yes  - watching Norm in action got me into building my own furniture a good few years ago

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Didn't know it was still being shown - which channel

[05omegav6]

It's on Quest here, Channel 38 on freeview

On now as it happens

[bigegg]

Is it just me or would anyone else absolutely love a workshop kitted out like Norm's?? I don't think the wife would ever see me if I had all those toys to play with!   

Yep 

Got most of them   

I assembled it to make bookcases and shopfittings for my business. 
I wish I had a shed big enough to use them without having to wheel machines in and out of storage (I have two portacabin portable offices joined together to make a 20x20 shed - cost me £500 when the price of steel was £20 a tonne just after 9/11).

The one I miss most is a table saw that will take a dado blade.
They are virtually impossible to get in the UK (actually illegal!) - I would have to order one, and have it shipped, from the US ($$$).
That means I have to use a router to cut grooves - I use a radial arm saw, with dado blade, for cross grooves (dados), but no room to use it for the long grooves.

And I DO spend most of my time playing with them - although I'm addicted to sticking lumps of steel together at the moment (bbqs and wood stoves/chimneas)

Having said that, I actually find Norm quite laughable to be honest - the worst one is in his catchphrase "The most important safety rule is to wear these, safety glasses" - then points to his glasses - which AREN'T safety glasses.

Then there is the fact he has 100s of 1000s of pounds of tools, uses 100s of pounds of expensive hardwoods to make heirloom quality furniture which will be worth a !fortune! in the near future.
*And he NAILS it together*

[MR MISTER]

Is it just me or would anyone else absolutely love a workshop kitted out like Norm's?? I don't think the wife would ever see me if I had all those toys to play with!   

Yep 

Got most of them   

I assembled it to make bookcases and shopfittings for my business. 
I wish I had a shed big enough to use them without having to wheel machines in and out of storage (I have two portacabin portable offices joined together to make a 20x20 shed - cost me £500 when the price of steel was £20 a tonne just after 9/11).

The one I miss most is a table saw that will take a dado blade.
They are virtually impossible to get in the UK (actually illegal!) - I would have to order one, and have it shipped, from the US ($$$).
That means I have to use a router to cut grooves - I use a radial arm saw, with dado blade, for cross grooves (dados), but no room to use it for the long grooves.

And I DO spend most of my time playing with them - although I'm addicted to sticking lumps of steel together at the moment (bbqs and wood stoves/chimneas)

Having said that, I actually find Norm quite laughable to be honest - the worst one is in his catchphrase "The most important safety rule is to wear these, safety glasses" - then points to his glasses - which AREN'T safety glasses.

Then there is the fact he has 100s of 1000s of pounds of tools, uses 100s of pounds of expensive hardwoods to make heirloom quality furniture which will be worth a !fortune! in the near future.
*And he NAILS it together*

So.....you can make bespoke furniture? That's handy to know.

[bigegg]

So.....you can make bespoke furniture? That's handy to know.

I make bespoke *shop furniture* but pm me if you ever want anything 

Latest project is turning my transit into a day-van/mobile office.[1]

So carpeting the walls, building a desk/bench in the back.

[1]My daughter and I are setting up a business to write letters, statements, press releases etc.
Lots of small businesses which are very good at what they do, but are let down by poor English skills - daughter is studying for an english degree, but suffers anxiety/agaraphobia, so can't go out to work, so I do the home visits, she will handle the "over the internet" business.

[chrisgixer]

Looking at building a new shed, personally. Not quite the sort of perfection piece he'd exhibit, but its woodwork and involves tools. So a programme for me.

I had presumed the programme had finished, so shall keep an eye out.

[bigegg]

got to admit, I prefer "the salvager", and "le salvager" - Rico Daniels.

Not quite so perfectionist, his projects seem much more achievable with a "DIY"range of tools.

Plus he does metal as well.

[horsecow]

It must have only started showing again as I've noticed it a lot in the last week or so. He does have some great gear and I would love to have the half of it!!

[Rods2]

I started making things out of wood and collecting / buying tools from when I was 9. Things like my set of firmer Stanley chisels and record smoothing plane I bought in my early teens and are still going strong. They say quality tools will last a lifetime and they should easily outlast me!

Me and a friend used to make lots of things out of wood after school in the woodworking workshop and after doing our paper rounds used to be able to use the woodworking workshop from 8:15 to 9:00 am every morning. This included before the teacher arrived at about 8:45. Just think what health and safety would say about that these days! Our woodwork teacher was an ex-cabinet maker, from the old school and when it came to teaching he knew how to keep order with his 2' steel rule and was very very good at teaching woodwork.

I've still got lots of stuff I made out of oak and beech, a sycamore and mahogany chess board with oak surround, that uses secret mitred dovetail joints, so they are hidden and also turned table lamps, fruit bowls and even a miniature mahogany mouse.

He used to talk about the one thing that he would like to see before he retired where he was only two years away from that, was a pupil get a grade one 'O' level in woodwork as the best he had ever had was pupils achieve grade twos. Me and my friend were able to reward him with all of his help, by both achieving that.

What I was taught was skills that I still regularly use. If I need to make a frame, like some cloches a couple of years ago, then I automatically use mortice and tenon joints as they are so much stronger than using modern methods like dowels.

I build all of the furniture in my study / office, including my main desk and an occasional fold up desk, but on cost grounds they are made of light oak coloured chipboard rather than solid wood.

I would love to have a full workshop not only for woodworking but also for metal work. I did precision turning and metal fitting as part of my electronics apprenticeship.

I have seen some of the New Yankee Workshop programmes and he uses some interesting combinations of old school and modern methods, but as a traditionalist I'm not impressed with where he uses nails at times!

[zirk]

I was talking about this programme Zirk http://www.newyankee.com/, but if you haven't seen it before then the link isn't much good I guess

Ah, gotcha, nope, haven't seen it, thought you missed a link or piccy, my fault. 

[chrisgixer]

Discovery Shed tues 10pm.
242 on sky.

Currently showing Steam engine Sunday. Where's Master?

[jonny2112]

Didn't realise this was back on - used to love watching Norm.
He always made things look soooo easy 
Having said that, he pushed me to buy my first router, a tool I didn't even know existed at that point.