Chest on Chest | S2 E11
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- Norm uses biscuit and dovetail joinery to build a chest-on-chest from Cherry. He uses a band saw, table saw, and router to craft the sculpted, contoured feet.
Season: 2 | Episode: 11
Original Air Date: March 17, 1990
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I built this in 94’. I’m looking at it right now in my bedroom. I pretty much followed in your footsteps Norm.
What do you store in the top drawer? How do you access it, a step stool?
@@Exodus5K s3 e1 he builds a step 😅😆
This was the first project I built after I graduated from college in 1991. I just did laundry and put my clothes away in it, just like I have for 30 years. It was my first piece of "adult" furniture. No pressboard, wood grain vinyl, or screw-together parts.
Thanks, Norm, for instilling a sense of history and integrity into the way that I build. You are the inspiration that started my career in cabinetry and construction.
Norm Abram and the New Yankee workshop is the reason why I am involved in woodworking. And I believe that there is a lot of people that are involved in woodworking that would not have been if it would not have been for Norm Abram and the New Yankee workshop he is a very talented knowledgeable person and I respect anything and everything the man does thank you Norm
Yep, and I'm one of them.
Same. Watched it as a kid and I picked it up as an adult. Norm has to be one of the biggest modern influencers in getting people into woodworking.
Norm is a great teacher. Totally inspiring. My grandfather was a cabinet maker who died before I was born. I feel he is egging me on to learn from Norm😊
Neat seeing use of tools that are rare these days, like the Radial Arm Saw, overhead router, and Wobble blade.
I'm a wood worker today because of Norm, don't know if I'm as good as Norm but I can build anything I or my family wants.
One of my favorite pieces NORM, ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT‼️‼️ Vinny 🇺🇸
I made a similar unit by hand in 1984 during my trade school course. I used rough Alder. I had to make a smoothing plane first in order to hand plane the 4/4 boards to 7/8". Bought a rip saw to cut the boards for the drawers. No power tools were used. Did a hand rubbed oil finish. Still using it today. It will be my daughters eventually.
I built one about 20 years ago from off cuts of hardwood where I was working from Oxford England 🏴
I LIKE WOOD WORKING JUST THE SMELL OF WOOD AS YOUR WORKING IS NICE.
that biscuit joiner was comically designed hah.
I'm a joiner because of this man
I wish they still made that type of over arm router. With that lever It would work great as a mortiser...
i mean... this is a pure masterpiece
ITS GOT 8 DRAWERS!
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Don't remember seeing that over-arm router before.
I love how Norm spent more time explaining the fundamental concept of a router table (that you mount a router in it) than he did explaining how in the river of shit running through the eighth circle of hell do you set the depth so that you cut the male dovetail the right width. The closest method I came up with is fuck around with the fence on the router table trying to take 6.73*10^-994 microangstroms off a pine one-by and cutting it too loose anyway.
I'm assuming the finish looked better in person. We're a bit spoiled with the high resolution tv's and filming capabilities that we're used to seeing today. But on this old video the stain just makes the peice look brown. I couldn't really see any of the grain show through.
When I first seen this episode over 20 years ago, that was the first time I've ever heard of an overarm router. Back then, I really didn't see the practicality in having an overarm router over a shaper or a router table and now, some 20 years later, as a Master Furniture Maker (thanks to Norm & David Marks, in that order) I still don't see a practical purpose for an overarm router. I'm assuming the overarm router, gave way to the router table, just as the radial arm saw gave way to the sliding power miter saw, with the exception of the radial arm saw having the ability to rip cut. Great memories though, I love these nostalgic episodes.
I've seen one youtuber with an RAS, and he almost exclusively uses it for 90 degree dado blade cuts. Basically every cut you can do on an RAS you can use a table saw for aside from breaking down long boards in crosscuts (which is what it was originally designed exclusively for and Miter saws do now). And if anything, table saws are safer for sheet goods, since you basically set up the blade to stick out over the table at gut height and push the sheet across it with an RAS.
The big advantage I see with the overarm is if you're regularly doing those kinds of decorative plunge cut lines and need perfect repeatability instead of carefully lowering the piece blind onto a spinning blade like on a router table.
There are a handful of companies that still make an overarm router. They tend to be a bit pricey so it only makes sense for commercial shops.
The interesting thing to consider with router table vs overarm router is the face of the material you are indexing off of as it relates to the depth of cut. Working in a commercial shop this was something we used to discuss as when material varies in thickness as do most sheet goods and you using dado joints, its the difference between your error factor being on the inside dimension of the cabinet vs the outside dimension. If you assume your material is 3/4 and you set a depth of cut on the router table of 3/8, yet the material is thinner, you will still remove 3/8 of material, and if you cut the horizontal parts to the same dimension assuming the consistent thickness of the sides, your cabinet will now be undersized. Has you used an over arm router, you would set the bit 3/8 above the table, if your side was thinner than 3/4, you would still be left with 3/8 and your outside dimension is unchanged. I know it sounds insignificant, but when banking a lot of cabinets together, it can ad up to enough to make a difference. This was an adjustment when we went from dado construction on table saws to dado construction on CNC routers. Do you want your error factor to be on the inside dimension or the outside dimension.
@@tccoggs To be fair most people watching these would be doing one-off pieces rather than large volume production.
I am the same. Loved both of those shows! Got me into woodworking.
How do you see into the top drawer? I’m 6’ 1” and I would need a stool!
Norm actually built this in 25 minutes. Lol.
So, 25 months for me.
it must be 1hp router motor
Norm sure does NOT Look 73yrs old !!
that router motor is loud how made that router
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I built this chest for my wife in 1998 and its still going strong.
We need a youtube creator to reproduce some of these videos in 4k shot-for-shot.
Why not use plywood instead of the pine? He already used plywood on the back.
because of seasonal wood movement
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I feel bad for Norm’s lungs after all that sanding with no dust collection. That shop had to be covered in dust for days. At least it was cherry so it smelled good.
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Thar would cost 3 grand to build today
At least 50% more here in Canada.
Not sure about 3 grand but it would not be cheap
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