RE: Norm - The Early Years

On Jan 22, 1:43=A0am, "Lew Hodgett" <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you go to the NYW website, the featured project is a drop leaf
> table which requires some M&T joints.
>
> Here is Norm with an early contractor's saw making cheek cuts for the
> tenons using ONLY the fence.
>
> This was obviously long before Delta coughed up a tenoning jig for the
> show and Norm's message of safety.
>
> BTW, grew up with a painted drop leaf table as a kitchen table long
> before plastic laminate existed.
>
> Our table was laminated with linoleum.
>
> Need, the mother of invention.
>
> Lew

Just finished watching "Blanket Chest" #104. Boy, that was strange
seeing him use that old TS and router table.

On Jan 22, 1:43=A0am, "Lew Hodgett" <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you go to the NYW website, the featured project is a drop leaf
> table which requires some M&T joints.
>
> Here is Norm with an early contractor's saw making cheek cuts for the
> tenons using ONLY the fence.
>
> This was obviously long before Delta coughed up a tenoning jig for the
> show and Norm's message of safety.
>
> BTW, grew up with a painted drop leaf table as a kitchen table long
> before plastic laminate existed.
>
> Our table was laminated with linoleum.
>
> Need, the mother of invention.
>
> Lew

The New Yankee Workshop website from 1999:
http://web.archive.org/web/19991012023113/http://newyankee.com/

Lew Hodgett wrote:
...

> BTW, grew up with a painted drop leaf table as a kitchen table long
> before plastic laminate existed.
>
> Our table was laminated with linoleum.
>
> Need, the mother of invention.
...

Nothing at all uncommon about that; still have several of them including
grandmother's kitchen table around. Based on appearance I think it's
highly likely at least one or two of these were manufactured this way
rather than being home-brewed covered.

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