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  2. The New Yankee Workshop - Wikipedia

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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 .

  3. Norm Abram - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Rolltop desk - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Resolute desk - Wikipedia

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    These plans included heavy traverse draperies in dull gold, a chenille rug, a pine table and cabinet removed from the White House after the 1814 Burning of Washington, black leather sofas and chairs, small tables, two new end tables, two new coffee tables and "The large desk which was originally in the President's Study" per minutes from a ...

  6. Shop drawing - Wikipedia

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    The architect and engineer make comments on the reproducible, then copies are distributed. This method facilitates the timely approval and distribution of the shop drawing. Review comments usually are obvious on the reproducible copy. When sepia copies are used, the reproduction of the sepia often is not as clear as a normal blue-line print. [4]

  7. Slant-top desk - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Secretary desk - Wikipedia

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    The secretary is one of the most common antique desk forms and has been endlessly reproduced and copied for home use in the last hundred years. Among home desk forms, it is the tallest, biggest and heaviest, excluding wall units and modular desks, which typically can be disassembled for moving, or some of the biggest of the armoire desks ...

  9. Talk:The New Yankee Workshop - Wikipedia

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    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.