Kitchen Cabinet shows for next season NYW

[Stormbringer]

While I was perusing Fine Woodworking.com I spotted an article with Norm.

"The upcoming season of our longstanding PBS series, The New Yankee Workshop, is devoting nine episodes to showing how to build a custom dream kitchen. In anticipation of this 20th anniversary season, I wrote an article published in the February 2008 issue of Fine Woodworking magazine with a collection of my favorite kitchen-building tips and techniques."


From the Feb 2008 issue (don't know when this hits newstands) -

"Turn the kitchen you dream about into your dream kitchen with help from Norm Abram, host of The New Yankee Workshop. This kitchen, featured on the upcoming season of the PBS program, is a project Abram has wanted to do for some time. Stripped to its basics, the method Abram uses for building kitchen cabinets is straightforward: plywood cases, joined with glued and screwed dado and rabbet joints; solid face frames, assembled with pocket screws and joined to the cases with glue and biscuits; applied beads and moldings; drawer boxes dovetailed using a router jig. He also offers his favorite tips and techniques for designing a custom kitchen, as gathered over a 35-year career."


So, for anyone interested in kitchen makeovers or cabinet construction in general, set your betamax to record these episodes

Greg

[LarryG]

If anyone would be willing to record these episodes for me, please send me a PM.

I'm not going to do anything illegal with the shows; I just want a chance to see them. In my state, PBS is notorious for pre-empting NYW for several weeks at a time while they have their pledge drives. This typically happens about a third of the way through the season, and then again toward the end. I've not been able to view a complete season in years.

Thanks much to anyone who might be able to help.

[LinuxRandal]

If anyone would be willing to record these episodes for me, please send me a PM.

I'm not going to do anything illegal with the shows; I just want a chance to see them. In my state, PBS is notorious for pre-empting NYW for several weeks at a time while they have their pledge drives. This typically happens about a third of the way through the season, and then again toward the end. I've not been able to view a complete season in years.

Thanks much to anyone who might be able to help.

AHH, the reason I long ago gave up watching the NYW.
However, I suggest you contact the prior poster, if you want these on Beta.

[JSUPreston]

In my state, PBS is notorious for pre-empting NYW for several weeks at a time while they have their pledge drives. This typically happens about a third of the way through the season, and then again toward the end. I've not been able to view a complete season in years.

Larry, if you remember, I'm about an hour or so up the road from you in Montgomery. You have hit on the very reason why I hate PBS. The only shows I watch on a regular basis are the Sat. evening shows (New Yankee, Hometime, TOH, ATOH, etc.). They never announce (that I know of) when they are going to pre-empt, and then they'll do it for what seems to be a month at a time.

Doesn't exactly motivate me to donate money when they pre-empt the only thing I'm interested in.

[JR]

PBS is notorious for pre-empting NYW for several weeks at a time while they have their pledge drives.

Same here. In fact, the regular PBS station doesn't even carry the show. The LA Unified School District channel carries the show - sometimes. This last week they changed the schedule within the week!

One thing is clear. They don't want my money. They want money from some doo-wop officinado, interested in financial planning, and with the need for positive reinforcement of their mental issues. If they like pretty Irish girls who sing, so much the better.

JR

[Rand]

You can order the plans and dvd from
http://www.newyankee.com/getproduct.php?0801-0809

They aren't available until after the shows air on PBS

[JimD]

I got the Feb FWW yesterday with the article by Norm. His construction method is simple. He dado's the bottom, rabbets the top, and dados a 3/4 thick back on in 3/8 to 1/2 (for scribing). The carcase is glued and screwed together. A face frame is then installed with biscuits. The door/drawer openings have an applied bead. Doors and drawers are inset. Norm recommends an applied panel where the end of a cabinet will show and pre-finished maple plywood, poplar, and mdf. He has an island of old salvaged pine but the rest of the kitchen is painted.

Definitely not beyond the abilities of most wood workers with a good table saw (like a BT3x). I will watch and probably record the shows on DVD, I have most of Norm's shows recorded. I have used a lot of glue and screw construction for kitchen and bath cabinets but I plug the holes with a matching plug where it would show. I think 3/4 plywood for the back is overkill, will waste space, and will make the cabinets very heavy. I use a 3/4 strip 3-4 inches wide top and bottom but make the rest out of 1/4 luan. The 3/4 strip helps keep the cabinet square but it's main purpose is for screwing the cabinet to the wall. I have not scribed cabinets to the wall. I guess I have been lucky enough to have pretty straight walls. If the wall was really bad, I would probably apply a moulding.

Jim

[LinuxRandal]

Definitely not beyond the abilities of most wood workers with a good table saw (like a BT3x). I will watch and probably record the shows on DVD, I have most of Norm's shows recorded. I have used a lot of glue and screw construction for kitchen and bath cabinets but I plug the holes with a matching plug where it would show. I think 3/4 plywood for the back is overkill, will waste space, and will make the cabinets very heavy. I use a 3/4 strip 3-4 inches wide top and bottom but make the rest out of 1/4 luan. The 3/4 strip helps keep the cabinet square but it's main purpose is for screwing the cabinet to the wall. I have not scribed cabinets to the wall. I guess I have been lucky enough to have pretty straight walls. If the wall was really bad, I would probably apply a moulding.

Jim

I am guessing PART of the reason he uses strictly 3/4" plywood, is his target audience,(diyers), plan on just getting borg plywood and building them from single sheets (instead of thinner backs).
That said, I have wondered if they provide any kind of structural difference for countertops made out of concrete or stone?

[JimD]

There is nothing in the FWW article suggesting structual changes for heavier countertop material. I have stood on my coutertops before, an extreme example that what goes on a coutertop is usually more of an issue than the countertop itself.

Also note that Norm is recommending pre-finished maple plywood for the carcass, I have not seen that at Lowe's or Home Depot.

Jim