New Yankee Workshop Episode 1911

In this episode, building a Bowfront Chest, Norm used the following tools:

• Assembly Square
• Bessey GRZ Super-Grip clamp
• Bessey K-Body clamps
• Biesemeyer auxiliary fence (long)
• Biesemeyer auxiliary fence (short)
• Biesemeyer fence
• Bosch 1584 jig saw
• Chisels
• Claw hammer
• Dado blade
• Insert, dado
• Dead blow hammer
• Delta 14-651 mortiser
• Delta 28-280 band saw
• Delta 31-396 oscillating edge sander
• Delta 33-890 12" radial arm saw
• Delta 34-184 tenoning jig
• Delta DJ-20 jointer
• Flex Curve
• Gros-Stabil KF2 edge clamp
• Kugihiki Japanese flush cutting saw
• Leigh dovetail jig
• Osborne miter gauge
• Porter-Cable 557 biscuit joiner
• Porter-Cable 691 router
• Porter-Cable 733x random orbit sander
• Porter-Cable 98xx cordless drill
• Porter-Cable BN200 brad nailer
• Porter-Cable PIN100 pin nailer
• Quick-Grip
• Quick Grip hand clamps
• Roller glue bottle
• Router table (shop built) new
• Quick Grip hand clamps
• Senco SLP20 brad nailer
• Spring clamp
• Stanley rabbeting plane
• Star oscillating spindle sander
• Tru-Grip clamp
• Unisaw
• Vacuum press
• Insert red
• Insert, melamine
• Insert, oak insert

Items in bold represent the first appearance of that particular tool.

The safety speech included video of an operation on the router table (wide board).

Norm introduces us to vacuum press technology.

Norm used the tenoning jig at an angle due to the curved drawer fronts. I don’t recall him having done that before (or since).

Field trip was to The Townhouse in Old Sturbridge Village, Massachusetts.

Project filmed 17, 19 October 2006.

This episode was processed based on the full length original broadcast by PBS.