Tommy MacDonald's new shop

Yeah!

On furniture I use a pinner. Good for small stuff like trim and assembling drawer pulls, not attaching.

Norm is kind of a woodworkers superman. He was on This old house for quite a while but his show was called The New Yankee Workshop.

pattern is a bit off putting but he's a friendly guy according to people I know who have worked with him. Currently, he's been showing a series of sh ows where he's built a new shop. This week, we got a peak at the equipment he's put into it.

quipment. Sliding table saw that is also a planner and joiner, one of those huge sanders (kind like what Norm had), etc. It's possible he's going to do more jobs outside of the show, but chee-whiz it's hard to relate to a pr oject when someone is using equipment that is more expensive then the sum o f all the tools in my shop!

It looks to me like he's using SCM tools. Very high dollar stuff. His table saw would have been in the $15,000 range. I like the show enough to watch it but these guys are so unrealistic it's sickening. I mean how many woodwo rkers can afford $150,000 for tolls after putting up a building that I'm su re cost just as much as that. I just watched a show where he used ceder to build outside doors for his wood storage, whish I agree is best but come on , the whole show is overkill.

If the sander is 7 HP, then it is 3 phase. Single phase motors are only up to 5 HP.

I'm guessing Norm started life as a framing carpenter, general house builder. So air guns are a part of his history. More than glue and clamps. Guessing he was a framer during the 1960s and 1970s when air guns were the main tool.

Norm is great, except that I die a little bit inside every time he reaches for the belt sander. I don't think I ever saw him use a hand plane.

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Above 10 hp do become pretty scarce indeed altho up to 13-15 hp I think are at least available...but buying a converter and 3-phase motor is undoubtedly cheaper in long run unless has wiring stout enough already in place.

I recall one episode when he was building a router table/storage unit. He included some large drawers on the bottom. That's when I realized that he doesn't change router bits, he changes routers. I was just starting to collect tools and was envious that he had a drawer full of routers, while I only had 1. I thought 1 was enough, more was just showing off.

Now I have 3 routers (full size for hand use, trim, and full size in the router table). Sometimes I wish I had more. We grow. :-)

Routers are like clamps. ;-)

...but harder to hang. ;-)

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Just wrap the cord around them and open the trap door.

well the original author would have to answer because saying that he was no norm could go either way

some thought norm was neanderthalic

Now I'm feeling a bit neanderthalic myself. Never thought we'd have to explain who Norm was...

Some people need to have every thing explained and it does not always soak in.

Norm a Neanderthal? I think he plugged in his chisels. The one time a year he used a hand held chisel instead of a router.

The two schools of thought at the time were Normite and Neander IIRC.

i never really had an opinion on him

everyone has their own style developed as they go along

time constraints usually means get out some power tools

well unless you are paul sellers

that guy can make dados very fast by hand but that in my mind is not neanderthalic that is finesse