Bonfire97 said:

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Man, I have been a TOH fan since I was a kid. Tom Silva is a genius. I have learned so many shortcut tricks from him over the years.

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Sponge said:

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Norm Abrams is a carpenter and wood worker. He was first on This Old House as the carpentry guy but spun off to do his own show called New Yankee Workshop. Each episode was building a different project from scratch. Made a lot of different pieces of furniture in a very accessible way for anyone with a table saw at home to do (jointer and planer help).
He did this for 25 or so years. You could get the full DVD set but it was expensive. Some people put up really bad quality episodes on YT. But now they are putting all the episodes on YT.

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Tom Silva's way of quickly measuring something and breaking down fractions should be taught to elementary students.

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Red Pear BCS Luke said:

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My grandfather was a crusty old Air Force Pilot who retired at 44 years old to spend the next 43 years of his life doing two things - 1. playing a ****ton of Golf and 2. ****ton of woodworking.

I remember being a little fart in the 90s watching this show and TOH with him on Saturday afternoons. I always loved New Yankee a bit more cause it applied to my grandpa's scope of woodworking vs remodeling. But I loved both of the shows cause it meant that Golf wasn't on the TV.

If I'm up having trouble sleeping at night - it's my dogs and me on the couch crushing old episodes of TOH and NYW. Just helps bring back a bit of my comforting memories of time spent with him.

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BrazosDog02 said:

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I loved watching Norm as a young kid growing up. I used to like telling my dad "man, he does nice work." My fathers standard response was, "yeah, I guess so. It should be nice. He's got 100,000 dollars of tools in his shop."

My grandfather was a cabinetmaker and built Custom cabinets in river oaks. He was a tradesman.…for homes he'd never have a prayer of living in, and he did it with absolute basics.

I think my dad saw a lot of struggle annd always felt like it was easy to do good work when you have every tool you could need to do it. I agree with him, although I also think Norm is quite skilled too.

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one MEEN Ag said:

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BrazosDog02 said:

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I loved watching Norm as a young kid growing up. I used to like telling my dad "man, he does nice work." My fathers standard response was, "yeah, I guess so. It should be nice. He's got 100,000 dollars of tools in his shop."

My grandfather was a cabinetmaker and built Custom cabinets in river oaks. He was a tradesman.…for homes he'd never have a prayer of living in, and he did it with absolute basics.

I think my dad saw a lot of struggle annd always felt like it was easy to do good work when you have every tool you could need to do it. I agree with him, although I also think Norm is quite skilled too.

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Your grandfather could have probably benefitted from better tools, but 95% of people who claim to be woodworkers cant do what Norm does as consistently and quickly as he does. As a sidenote, I couldn't imagine trying to buy precision woodworking equipment back then. I'm sure just eye watering prices for everything, even more so than today.

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