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The New Yankee Workshop is an American half-hour woodworking television series produced by WGBH Boston, which aired on PBS. Created in 1989 by Russell Morash , the program was hosted by Norm Abram , a regular fixture on Morash's television series This Old House .
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Norm Abram (born October 3, 1949) [1] is an American carpenter, writer, and television host best known for his work on the PBS television programs This Old House and The New Yankee Workshop. [2] He is a Master carpenter and has published several books and articles about the craft.
Presented as an instructional woodworking tutorial, Tommy Mac guided the viewer through the necessary steps to create tables, cabinets, chairs, and many more artisan woodworks. Each episode featured a particular creation and chronicles Tommy's work from conception to completion, thus allowing the viewer to replicate the work in their own shop.
Unlike the cylinder desk, the rolltop desk could be mass-produced rather easily since the simple wooden slats could be turned out very fast in a uniform way. In contrast, the wooden section of a cylinder had to be treated with great pains to keep its form perfectly over time, lest it warp or bend, and make it impossible to retract or extend.
The slant-top desk, also called secretary desk, or more properly, a bureau, is a piece of writing furniture with a lid that closes at an angle and opens up as a writing surface. It can be considered related, in form, to the desk on a frame , which was a form of portable desk in earlier eras.
In a 2005 Popular Woodworking magazine piece titled "Two days on the set of 'The New Yankee Workshop' reveal surprising truths about the way Norm Abram works," the writer states "I can't tell you the exact location of The New Yankee Workshop for two reasons. One, even with directions, I don't know if I could find it again.
A pedestal desk. A pedestal desk or a tanker desk is usually a large, flat, free-standing desk made of a simple rectangular working surface resting on two pedestals or small cabinets of stacked drawers of one or two sizes, with plinths around the bases. Often, there is also a central large drawer above the legs and knees of the user.