New Yankee Workshop Episode 9811

In this episode, building a chaise lounge, Norm used the following tools:

• Bessey K-Body clamps
• Bessey Tradesman clamps
• Bessey GRZ Super-Grip clamp
• Biesemeyer T-Square
• Claw hammer
• Dead blow hammer
• Delta 17-900 drill press
• Delta 28-280 band saw
• Delta 31-280 sanding center
• Delta 34-182 tenoning jig
• Delta 34-895 miter gauge
• Delta DJ-15 jointer
• Dovetail saw
• Makita 3601 D-handle router
• Porter-Cable 691 router
• Porter-Cable 7539 router
• Porter-Cable 862 cordless drill
• Porter-Cable Laser-Loc miter saw
• Porter-Cable router edge guide
• Router table (shop built)
• Star oscillating spindle sander
• Taper jig (home-made)
• Unisaw
• Unifence
• Insert red
• Insert, oak insert
• Ratchet and socket wrenches

An infrequent no-new-tool episode.

Norm demonstrated a clever technique for knocking the square edges off tenons to fit in rounded mortises made by a router. He used the same fence setup as he did for the shoulder cuts, but he placed an auxiliary fence on the table top—much like a horizontal feather board would be placed—allowing access to just enough of the saw blade to knock off about ¼" off the corners off the tenons.

Another nifty technique was to use a stop pin on the sanding center and a locating pin on the wheel blanks in order to sand them perfectly round.

The safety speech included video of a crosscut operation on the radial arm saw.

Field trip was to a railroad trestle demolition site on the Great Salt Lake, Utah, managed by Trestlewood.

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