The New Yankee Workshop - Season 9

The New Yankee Workshop - Season 9

Season 9

Norm visits Savannah, Georgia. Inspired from the trip, he builds a pine planter's desk, a pine turkey table, a tiger maple washstand, a pine carousel table, and a mahogany 7-drawer chest. He also builds a Nantucket settle out of cherry, a pine dough box, a pine garden gate, cherry serving trays, a bent-wood hat rack, and a fireplace mantel. Finally, he tackles a major project - building a greenhouse.
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DatesJan 11, 1997 - Mar 29, 1997
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Episodes

Planter's Desk
Season 9Episode 130 min

Planter's Desk

Norm begins his search for low-country furniture projects in Savannah's famed Monterey Square at the home of antique map and print dealers, Virginia and John Duncan. On their veranda, Norm discovers a quintessential piece of the Old South, a planter's desk. Once used by cotton and tobacco farmers for bookkeeping, the desk can function quite well today as a compact, home office. Featuring nicely tapered legs, a hinged desktop, and plenty of shelves, it also has enough room to accommodate a small computer. Back East in the New Yankee Workshop, Norm builds this piece out of recycled pine and finishes it with a new pastel stain to give it a "pickled" look.
May 8, 2006
Turkey Table
Season 9Episode 230 min

Turkey Table

While touring Savannah, Norm found the inspiration for this unique piece in Marty Johnson's antique collection. Though its name remains a mystery, there's no question that its graceful three-leaf-clover design makes it an attractive and practical accent table. Norm brings a little bit of Georgia back to the New Yankee Workshop when he creates the table out of Southern heart pine.
Jan 11, 1997
Nantucket Settle
Season 9Episode 330 min

Nantucket Settle

On a sojourn to the quaint New England island of Nantucket, Norm found a wonderful lidded settle that can double as extra storage space and a hallway showpiece. Norm crafts a rendition out of beautiful cherry wood and, in the process, demonstrates a variety of intermediate woodworking techniques including spindle-turning and how to make framed panels.
Jan 18, 1997
Tiger Maple Washstand
Season 9Episode 430 min

Tiger Maple Washstand

This lovely washstand is true to the circa 1830 original found in the antique collection of Stanley and Jacqueline Levine of Savannah, Georgia. Featuring elegant scroll work, turned legs, and a generous shelf drawer, this vintage design can be used today as a night stand. Norm produces this piece out of fine tiger maple, making it one of the most sophisticated pieces in his collection of low-country furniture.
Jan 25, 1997
Dough Box
Season 9Episode 530 min

Dough Box

In the 1800s, a dough box provided a warm hiding place for bread dough to rise. When Norm crafts his version of this simple design out of antique pine and adds a hinge to the lid, he turns it into a great-looking, modern-day, chest-on-legs.
Feb 1, 1997
Garden Gate
Season 9Episode 630 min

Garden Gate

Norm couldn't resist bringing the romantic design of this garden gateway back from a visit to a historic New England village. This ambitious outdoor project features a spindled gateway and is complemented by a pergola and a trellis that frames the garden view. Norm builds this outdoor project out of common, pressure-treated pine to ensure that it will last through years of sunshine, rain, and snow. In the process, he demonstrates how to join wood segments together with splines to form the elegant archway.
Feb 8, 1997
Serving Trays
Season 9Episode 730 min

Serving Trays

Norm takes viewers in to his favorite antique haunt on the quaint New England island of Nantucket where he discovers two distinctive wooden trays. Deeming them the perfect weekend woodworking projects, Norm crafts the more primitive fruit tray out of recycled pine, and, for the first time on The New Yankee Workshop, introduces the craft of metal-smithing when he fashions the cherry tray's hardware out of brass.
Feb 15, 1997
Carousel Table
Season 9Episode 830 min

Carousel Table

It's a great family gathering table and perfect for playing games with the kids, Norm claimed when he discovered the original in a private collection in Savannah. The ingenious design of this table features a lazy Susan centerpiece which can easily be removed for more formal gatherings. While building this piece out of salvaged pine, Norm shares his secrets for creating the spindle centerpiece with minimal hardware.
Feb 22, 1997
Seven Drawer Chest
Season 9Episode 930 min

Seven Drawer Chest

Norm spied this regal nineteenth-century English mahogany, seven-drawer chest in the back room of Alex Raskin's renowned antique shop on Monterey Square in Savannah. This well-proportioned, chest-on-chest features period brass hardware pulls, edge banding, and dovetail drawers.
Mar 1, 1997
Hat Rack
Season 9Episode 1030 min

Hat Rack

Norm introduces viewers to the seventeenth-century craft of wood steaming when he creates this charming hat rack out of oak. To learn the proper techniques, Norm pays a visit to craftsman Mike Dunbar, a well-known Windsor chair builder and teacher.
Mar 8, 1997
Greenhouse (1)
Season 9Episode 1130 min

Greenhouse (1)

He may be America's favorite master carpenter, but Norm readily admits that he's a "brown thumb," when it comes to gardening. This greenhouse is the perfect project for the serious backyard gardener (or someone who knows one) who is "workshop bound" for the winter. Norm fabricates this design out of redwood and polycarbonate panels. Built to withstand even the toughest weather conditions, this greenhouse provides enough insulation and light to sustain plants during the long winter months. This is part 1 of 2.
Mar 15, 1997
Greenhouse (2)
Season 9Episode 1230 min

Greenhouse (2)

He may be America's favorite master carpenter, but Norm readily admits that he's a "brown thumb," when it comes to gardening. This greenhouse is the perfect project for the serious backyard gardener (or someone who knows one) who is "workshop bound" for the winter. Norm fabricates this design out of redwood and polycarbonate panels. Built to withstand even the toughest weather conditions, this greenhouse provides enough insulation and light to sustain plants during the long winter months. This is part 2 of 2.
Mar 22, 1997
Fireplace Mantle
Season 9Episode 1330 min

Fireplace Mantle

Between shooting The New Yankee Workshop and This Old House, Norm rarely has time to build anything for himself. And, like the rest of us, he readily admits his own home is "a work in progress." So, Norm is taking this woodworking project home. With his own Rumford fireplace awaiting adornment, Norm takes the opportunity to design this classic Colonial fireplace mantel and builds it using a variety of woods and moldings readily available at home centers nationwide.
Mar 29, 1997

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