Thanks for bringing Norm back. I made almost all of his projects back in the day. Still use his router table. Pushing 80 now so have to slow down a bit.
This is bad. The New Yankee Workshop is on TH-cam? Be-still my heart! Now my wife and kids will get to run away from the living room as I binge watch Norm on TV.
Because of Steve, Tommy, Richard and mainly YOU Norm, I've been building in all phases for 40 years and still going!!! Thank you so much for your lessons!!!
Man, when I was a young guy with a wife and two kids and a house and a dog, this show and This Old House were just favorites. Norm made me confident enough to add a two car garage and a breezeway to my house. Good memories.
Great to see Norm! My time watching TOH harkens back to 1979, w Bob Vila, Steve Thomas, Roger Cook, and all the different guest hosts artisans. Wow, seems like yesterday, but that was 45 years ago.
Thanks for making every Sunday morning of my childhood special. I couldn’t wait to watch you cut biscuits, install some pocket screw or router some dovetails for a drawer front.
Started watching this when it was this, old house and the fella doing old school woodwork with hand tools. Thxs for the memories. Retired from custom woodwork after 41 years.. Not all custom, lol
Seriously though I was just a boy and had no power tools but not anymore baby!!! This old house and the woodwrite shop. The best part of a sick day from school in the 90s
I love seeing techniques Norm used being taught today. Seeing the floating tenons before the Domino was a thing is pretty cool. I wonder if this door held up. I have seen doors made of both solid wood like this one and staves(?) with a shop-sawn veneer surface. Someday I want to build my own entry door.
We used to build doors in a millwork shop. We had a big job of building a bunch of 8 panel doors out of western red cedar. It was quite the job. Thanks Norm!
Used to live watching NYWS back in the day. I always got a little chuckle about his “safety glasses” which basically look like Target Optical prescription wire glasses 😂
Be careful when using bullseye glass in exterior placements. It looks pretty, but can work like a magnifying glass if the sun hits it right, creating a fire danger.
over the years, i've felt bad for you since you don't have enough sharp cutting and wood working tools. but we love you Norm and know you'll perservere. 🇺🇸
Beautiful door. Two surprises in this ep: First, I was expecting Norm to make the panels like cabinet doors, sliding them in before closing the square frame. Making the frame first was, well, a first for me. Any particular reason for the different approach? Second, why not install the locking equipment in the shop before hanging the door and putting the coat of protection on? Another great episode. I loved these when they first came out, and I love them even more now, appreciating the high quality of craftsmanship of a true Master that my child self did not know enough to understand. Thank you.
I am not a carpenter so take what i say with a grain of salt, but i think the issue is waterproofing. With a cabinet you would dato the styles and insert the panels in the datos before gluing. That would create pockets in the styles where water could accumulate (especially considering the panels need to be floating to account for expansion). The way shown in the video the panels and moldings naturally guide the water away. And the glued in tendon with calk serve as a second layer of protection.
Agree on the door and exactly what I thought assembly-wise! Seemed like a helluva lot more work this way but definitely more watertight! And I've never freehand drilled the lockset mortise and lock cylinder.thumblatch holes with the door already hung and finished - always used a jig with the door lying flat or on end and secured. Too much risk from slight misalignment of the holes through the door!
I really wish I had seen this video first! In a moment of dyslexia at Home Depot years ago. I thought they were asking $80 for this beautiful door that caught my eye. I almost choked when I realized that they were asking $800 for it! I picked up a few pieces of cull plywood to make the door I have now. Although I'm happy with the door. I really feel that it would have been much better, from the advice that you provided here. Thank you so much for the wonderful instructional video! 😊
I like that there was no Domino used in this video. Not only was the mortise cut with a router, but the loose tenons were hand made. I doubt I've seen a single video where an alternative to Dominos was actually done. I guess sometimes it takes an old video to see that there isn't a wrong or right way to do these things. There's just the way it was done.
The Domino only came on the US market in 2007, the same year this video was first aired ... 🤔 Regardless, the Domino wouldn't be big enough when compared to Norms "dominos"... 😏 He called this door energy-efficient at the vid end, I wouldn't go that far myself though... turned out nice... having all those jigs takes the tediousness out of hanging and hardware, I hate that part of this job myself... 😣 😎👍☘️🍻
How do you feel about not being a stave core? Not a door builder, just watched lots of videos, couple books about door building. Seems like stave is recommended.
One can always count on learning something new when watching Norm build something. I had never seen nor heard of a couple of the jigs he used on the door for mortising in the hardware. As always, outstanding work by Norm in building this door. It's absolutely beautiful. And how many people can say their front door was built by Norm Abram and their house was featured on the show? Perhaps only the family who currently lives in that home? What a great conversation starter when new guests come over!
I just made a pair of rebated French doors with the frame and I used wedged through tenons and profile and scribe on the internal mouldings. Everyone said ‘why don’t you use a domino?’. It’s just sad that no one in the future will know how satisfying the job was. It’s all about fucking money now.
Thank you Norm for saying "brads" instead of "brad nails." YT was starting to make me feel crazy, like some creature from a parallel universe.] Now I just need reassurance that people call joking and making fun of someone (ala Don Rickles) "insult comedy" and not "roasting."
I noticed that where you fitted the door receiver their is not a lot of timber around it. Will you be fitting a reinforcement plate behind it to stop it giving way on the first kick.
Nice work Norm. I'd install a metal door shoe with a drip lip when that rubber sweep fails. You will have to trim the bottom slightly. Also, I wish the daylights lined up on the door glass and side-lite glass. But very nice regardless.
Ya because everyone has one of these lol. He keeps saying we are lucky we have…….. lol. Good on you though, that’s why you can make doors while others just buy one 😂 20:27
Norm, that door looks great with those bullseye glass panels and spar varnish! I'll see if I can find some images of these bullseye glass panels, before the old pine dry sink on next Tuesday!
You can be like Norm too and build a mahogany door. After 6 weeks, thousands of dollars worth of tools, equipment and wood, you may have a close enough door for just under 9 grand.
How about thinner panels and sandwiching in some foam insulation between them? ... and I have to admit, the 14-year-old in my mind giggles at the two bullseye glass pieces.
Must have been rain the day of topcoat, that didn't allow enough time to get the lockset in before finishing. I would have thought that they would put the dunnage door back on. A learning opportunity: Check the forecast! haha Gorgeous door.
lord gosh. i feel like a kid on saturday morning hearing this intro. this and motorweek were my favourite saturday morning pbs shows.
OMG me too. The memories!
Me as well. I grew up watching Norm. And Motorweek. Those were great days.
Seriously!
This guy’s projects were once a highlight of my Saturday evening. Love watching him build stuff.
Me too love all he did. He made me a better woodworker
This man and Bob Ross were staples of my early childhood 😊
PBS was fire in the 80's and 90's, I miss those times like you wouldn't believe.
Man, watching these never gets old. Thank you for releasing them.
Thanks for bringing Norm back. I made almost all of his projects back in the day. Still use his router table. Pushing 80 now so have to slow down a bit.
Watching this brought back memories of working with my dad years ago. Thanks Norm!
My thoughts exactly. My Dad and I built numerous projects from the show. Miss you so much Dad.
This is bad. The New Yankee Workshop is on TH-cam? Be-still my heart! Now my wife and kids will get to run away from the living room as I binge watch Norm on TV.
Nice to find these videos on YT... Used to love watch Norm build projects... Saturday afternoons on PBS.
Love me some New Yankee Workshop. Norm's awesome
Always loved to watch Norm and his projects.
That looked so nice together, the mahogany and dark green with the brass hardware. Very, very nice
Thank you Norm for another wonderful project, been a fan for more than 25 years !!!
Because of Steve, Tommy, Richard and mainly YOU Norm, I've been building in all phases for 40 years and still going!!! Thank you so much for your lessons!!!
Wow for your first door it looks amazing. 🎉
Man, when I was a young guy with a wife and two kids and a house and a dog, this show and This Old House were just favorites. Norm made me confident enough to add a two car garage and a breezeway to my house. Good memories.
This was the first video I watched of Norm. Norm never disappoints. Great job 👍🏻
Norm glad to see you back doing what you do best , making the best show for your fans to watch for yrs. ✅
Good days back then. Simpler times todays kids will never experience.
Great to see Norm! My time watching TOH harkens back to 1979, w Bob Vila, Steve Thomas, Roger Cook, and all the different guest hosts artisans. Wow, seems like yesterday, but that was 45 years ago.
Thanks for making every Sunday morning of my childhood special. I couldn’t wait to watch you cut biscuits, install some pocket screw or router some dovetails for a drawer front.
Oh yeah, I’ve been wearing my safety glasses too!
My greatest joy is building and I owe a lot to this program for influencing me as a child.
This show was the ultimate guide for the tools you needed in your box.
This man brought the love of carpentry to so many. You are the best 😊
the best ive ever saw
Started watching this when it was this, old house and the fella doing old school woodwork with hand tools. Thxs for the memories. Retired from custom woodwork after 41 years.. Not all custom, lol
Norm rules. Such good memories and this has inspired me to build a front door out of Honduras Mahogany!
I used to watch this show on PBS when I was a kid with my dad. My dad always mentioned if we had those tools we could do this. LOL
This episode could have been called "Build a door as long as you have all these door-building tools!"
@@ccraw235 LOL : )
Seriously though I was just a boy and had no power tools but not anymore baby!!! This old house and the woodwrite shop. The best part of a sick day from school in the 90s
That’s a 10k door! Worth every penny of it
Very talented guy, this was fantastic.
dam legend the chuck Noris of wood working
Congrats norm Abram and new Yankee workshop from terell jones from Georgia
I love watching norm, he's such an inspiration for the trades.
Timeless entertainment that’s instructive and encouraging, great series of videos
He makes it look easy
The great thing about these and Bob Ross' vids... there is never a snarky or negative comment. Quite a feat.
Great door
Beautiful!
OUTSTANDING!!!!!
I swear I’ve watched every episode. Norm helped me take my projects to the next level.
Excellent craftmanship Norm been watching you since the PBS days, keep up the good work!
I love seeing techniques Norm used being taught today. Seeing the floating tenons before the Domino was a thing is pretty cool. I wonder if this door held up. I have seen doors made of both solid wood like this one and staves(?) with a shop-sawn veneer surface. Someday I want to build my own entry door.
Love the project, that beautiful mahogany wood, and the end bumper with Russ Morash's voice-over. Thanks Norm!
this is my favourite episode
Beautiful work. Great video to watch and learn!
We used to build doors in a millwork shop. We had a big job of building a bunch of 8 panel doors out of western red cedar. It was quite the job. Thanks Norm!
Used to live watching NYWS back in the day. I always got a little chuckle about his “safety glasses” which basically look like Target Optical prescription wire glasses 😂
Even today you can learn how to woodwork from Norm. He is The Man!
8:48 my man said “let it cook” 😂
the good ol'days....norms the man
Perfect image of that door key. Now anyone can Geoguess the place and bust in! I kid, of course.
Be careful when using bullseye glass in exterior placements. It looks pretty, but can work like a magnifying glass if the sun hits it right, creating a fire danger.
over the years, i've felt bad for you since you don't have enough sharp cutting and wood working tools. but we love you Norm and know you'll perservere. 🇺🇸
Norms the man.
Absolutely stunning! Love that door!
Beautiful door.
Two surprises in this ep:
First, I was expecting Norm to make the panels like cabinet doors, sliding them in before closing the square frame. Making the frame first was, well, a first for me. Any particular reason for the different approach?
Second, why not install the locking equipment in the shop before hanging the door and putting the coat of protection on?
Another great episode. I loved these when they first came out, and I love them even more now, appreciating the high quality of craftsmanship of a true Master that my child self did not know enough to understand.
Thank you.
I am not a carpenter so take what i say with a grain of salt, but i think the issue is waterproofing. With a cabinet you would dato the styles and insert the panels in the datos before gluing. That would create pockets in the styles where water could accumulate (especially considering the panels need to be floating to account for expansion). The way shown in the video the panels and moldings naturally guide the water away. And the glued in tendon with calk serve as a second layer of protection.
Agree on the door and exactly what I thought assembly-wise! Seemed like a helluva lot more work this way but definitely more watertight! And I've never freehand drilled the lockset mortise and lock cylinder.thumblatch holes with the door already hung and finished - always used a jig with the door lying flat or on end and secured. Too much risk from slight misalignment of the holes through the door!
@@friesenguard good answer
@@friesenguard That makes sense. He mentioned waterproofing more than once, I just did not make the connection. Thank you for the response.
@@stevejensen3471 That freehand drilling freaked me out. No way I have the skill to do that. Norm could do it, but that is because...he's Norm.
Beautiful door! Thank you for what you do!
Spectacular entry.
I really wish I had seen this video first! In a moment of dyslexia at Home Depot years ago. I thought they were asking $80 for this beautiful door that caught my eye. I almost choked when I realized that they were asking $800 for it! I picked up a few pieces of cull plywood to make the door I have now. Although I'm happy with the door. I really feel that it would have been much better, from the advice that you provided here. Thank you so much for the wonderful instructional video! 😊
Norm is the man
I like that there was no Domino used in this video. Not only was the mortise cut with a router, but the loose tenons were hand made. I doubt I've seen a single video where an alternative to Dominos was actually done. I guess sometimes it takes an old video to see that there isn't a wrong or right way to do these things. There's just the way it was done.
The Domino only came on the US market in 2007, the same year this video was first aired ... 🤔
Regardless, the Domino wouldn't be big enough when compared to Norms "dominos"... 😏
He called this door energy-efficient at the vid end, I wouldn't go that far myself though... turned out nice... having all those jigs takes the tediousness out of hanging and hardware, I hate that part of this job myself... 😣
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Domino's or loose tenons are both a very poor substitute for a full mortise and tenon joints with wedges, it's low grade construction method.
@@waterboy8999 doesn't that stile (😉) of construction leave the endgrain exposed to moisture ingress ?... 🤔
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@@peterfitzpatrick7032 not really as they are in the door check as opposed to the bottoms of the stiles.
@@waterboy8999.. okay
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Not sure if that jamb is stronger enough for that beast of a door. Damn, impressive
Thank you!!
Cool to see this since I’m actually a carpenter that makes mahogany entry doors lol.
How do you feel about not being a stave core? Not a door builder, just watched lots of videos, couple books about door building. Seems like stave is recommended.
One can always count on learning something new when watching Norm build something. I had never seen nor heard of a couple of the jigs he used on the door for mortising in the hardware. As always, outstanding work by Norm in building this door. It's absolutely beautiful. And how many people can say their front door was built by Norm Abram and their house was featured on the show? Perhaps only the family who currently lives in that home? What a great conversation starter when new guests come over!
Nostalgic
Norm's got those lungs that don't need a mask when sanding.
All the fancy tools in the world, but a spade bit for drilling holes in the door and a big blowout where the drill punched through the wood.
Lots of Porter Cable tools that you can only buy used today.
I wonder if that door is still being used
How bad ass is a house with a front door made and installed by a master?
Norm!
Notice that there not a speck of sawdust anywhere in his shop and every tool he uses looks like it just came out if the box. Nice.
Don't have cable and still catch these on PBS😊
I just made a pair of rebated French doors with the frame and I used wedged through tenons and profile and scribe on the internal mouldings. Everyone said ‘why don’t you use a domino?’. It’s just sad that no one in the future will know how satisfying the job was. It’s all about fucking money now.
must be nice to have a planer that doesn't snipe
No fooling around now!
6:00 oops! Lol
I do that too.
Thank you Norm for saying "brads" instead of "brad nails." YT was starting to make me feel crazy, like some creature from a parallel universe.]
Now I just need reassurance that people call joking and making fun of someone (ala Don Rickles) "insult comedy" and not "roasting."
I'd really like to see how the door looks today
In case you’re wondering, those jigs he used are very expensive!
And also discontinued/out of production I think.
That door is Beautiful!!! Anyone know whose house that is? Russ' house?
I noticed that where you fitted the door receiver their is not a lot of timber around it. Will you be fitting a reinforcement plate behind it to stop it giving way on the first kick.
Norm's showing you how to build the perfect doorway for a home-invasion, because he wants you dead.
I bought a Domino XL to make some doors
You’d go broke trying to match his tool set even with Chinese imports.
Nice work Norm.
I'd install a metal door shoe with a drip lip when that rubber sweep fails. You will have to trim the bottom slightly.
Also, I wish the daylights lined up on the door glass and side-lite glass.
But very nice regardless.
Ya because everyone has one of these lol. He keeps saying we are lucky we have…….. lol. Good on you though, that’s why you can make doors while others just buy one 😂 20:27
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How does that technique measure up for security purposes? Does it hold up to someone trying to force themselves in?
It's like any other quality door
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Norm, that door looks great with those bullseye glass panels and spar varnish! I'll see if I can find some images of these bullseye glass panels, before the old pine dry sink on next Tuesday!
What was cool about this project is getting a history about the barn itself where the show is filmed.
Could anyone having Norm Abrams on your building project?!❤
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wow whoda thought a door was so complicated
You can be like Norm too and build a mahogany door. After 6 weeks, thousands of dollars worth of tools, equipment and wood, you may have a close enough door for just under 9 grand.
My father, who was a fine cabinetmaker, once said "I would love to see this guy's power go out. See how well he does then".
Get a life and a grip on reality.
Still trying to find a New Yankee Workshop Logo poster, anyone know how I can get one??
We ran out of posters years ago. If you email us through the website I can send you a PDF to print one yourself.
How about thinner panels and sandwiching in some foam insulation between them?
... and I have to admit, the 14-year-old in my mind giggles at the two bullseye glass pieces.
In my experience, the cherry goes out on a joint that's too tight, Norm.
Why are you wearing a tool belt?
Must have been rain the day of topcoat, that didn't allow enough time to get the lockset in before finishing. I would have thought that they would put the dunnage door back on.
A learning opportunity: Check the forecast! haha
Gorgeous door.