Kitchen Worktable | S2 E8 

I ended up getting a Domino and it is among the most-used tools in my shop. It's so fast and easy and makes strong joints. I don't even make dovetails anymore. I make through-tenons with the Domino to dress up the edge of drawers or create visual interest in joints.

Many of his techniques have evolved with more efficient tools. I initially built up my shop with his choice of tools, including biscuit joiner. Now I've replaced most with better tools although haven't gone to Festool floating tenon joiner. Other tools include cordless routers, drills, sanders, circular saws and Japanese hand saws and planes. Of course I have much better dust collection system than what Russell Morash had in the shop. Pocket hole joinery replaced toe and screw nailing. Yes, better clamps are also available. In this build I was surprised he didn't use draw tenons on the skirt and legs, just blind dowel pins. Thanks Norm for the education and start to a rewarding hobby.

I love using my Porter cable Biscuit jointer and my Kreg is super handy I think my 14inch Delta bandsaw is one the most used tools in my shop .

I’m with you. I still do all those things too. These young folks are using $10,000.00 worth of tools to build a lazy Susan, for crying out loud….

man that biscuit jointer in the video is so awesome. They don't make tools like that anymore

Yet he did do some dangerous things with the table saw. Fingers were a little too close to the blade. You can always learn from safety. The time to learn is before an injury.

Here here on 'The Woodwright's Shop'! Roy Underhill for decades showing you how to do it using only muscle power! ^^

The Festool domino system wasn’t available until the mid-2000s, about 15 years or so after this video was made.

@@rogerlove7588 right… it’s a joke. Social media made a villain out of domino in the 2010s because of its expense and has transitioned to everyone always asking why someone didn’t use a domino instead of traditional m&t. I was making fun of social media.

FAKE POST ! PROMOTING OLD CONTENT AS NEW WITH NO RELATIONSHIP TO NORM ABRAMS. CREEPY AND ILLEGAL!

@@stevenwarner7348 huh? The guy who produced the show says he is happy to put the episodes on RU-vid. He says all this as he is walking around in the original shop on his property.

@@stevenwarner7348 they aren't saying it's new content but it is new to RU-vid

Not a tiny desk, but we have a student's desk featuring Norm's daughter: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6o2TA70lhaY.html

Its a replica of an 18th century table, its meant to be used as both a place to sit and work on

Actually it is an Elu 3380 biscuit joiner(I have seen it referred to as a 2278). One of the more obscure tools in his arsenal. His go-to was the Lamello, and he did have two porter-cables in the shop. The Lamello was phased out in favor of the Porter-Cable 557. I’m sure that had something to do with underwriting. Regardless, the Porter-Cable 555/556 that was used in a few of the earlier episodes was not used nearly as much, in favor of the Lamello and then the 557. I have been on the hunt for an Elu, and have come to the conclusion that Elu is short for “Elusive.”

@@greencastlefarms6595 Thanks for the reply. After I posted that question I did some digging and discovered that it was an Elu. Another RU-vidr I follow, Matt Jackson with Next Level Carpentry uses one too. I did see a couple available on eBay a few days ago.

Same word, different spellings. In parts of the anglophone world, it's "rabbet." In other parts, it's "rebate," a later variant. Both come originally from the French "rabate," describing something with a groove or channel cut in it.

an old farmhouse kitchen, of course... these tables were the center islands of their day.

Like the crap plywood they sell today, the epoxy infill firewood soon to fill landfills or the screws are as strong as a tenons but you have to hide them garbage, yes todays stuff is quality. Antiques not but his stuff is still around, Ikea is pollution.