The New Yankee Workshop - Season 18 Episode 8 Corner Table
This project involves some considerable effort. At the suggestion of a friend who, with his colleagues, is trying to restore a historic river, Norm agrees to paddle a canoe over some rapids in search of some unusual white oak that's been submerged there for nearly 150 years. The oak Norm wants was used as a dam on Virginia's mighty Rappahannock River. Today it sits as a pile of salvage on the river's edge just hoping a woodworker floats by to rescue some of it for furniture projects. Norm engages Bill Jewell, a local sawyer of historical trees, to prepare this timber for the purpose of making a drop-leaved corner table, which Norm finds at nearby Kenmore House, a noted Fredericksburg mansion that was once owned by George Washington's sister. After Norm gets the wood to his shop, he spends considerable effort turning it into suitable pieces to make a copy of the original table - including the challenging turned legs that add so much style to this particular piece.
- Title: The New Yankee Workshop
- Year: 2009
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- Studio: PBS
- Director: Russell Morash
- Cast: Norm Abram
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- Runtime: 30 minutes
- IMDb: 0.00 / 10 by 0 users
- Popularity: 91.806
- First Air Date: Jan 07, 1989
- Last Air date: Jun 27, 2009
- Season: 21 Season
- Episode: 286 Episode
- Language: English
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