THE NEW YANKEE WORKSHOP - Heartbreaking Tragedy Of Norm Abram From "THE NEW YANKEE WORKSHOP" 

This man changed the direction of my life. In the late 80's, I was in the hospitality management industry. Watching the New Yankee Workshop, I was inspired to take up woodworking. His method of breaking down the complex nature of furniture into easily understandable task, I started buying tools and never looked back. I spent almost 20 years building a life of custom cabinetry and furniture and I still do it on a part time basis. It has been some of the most important memories of my life. Thank you , Norm, for the life you have given me.

I used to watch New Yankee workshop and the Woodrights shop on Saturdays all through my childhood. I look back on the days in the eightees and I wish I could live those Saturday mornings all over again. RIP Norm! U were one of a kind and no one will ever be able to fill your shoes. What an awesome legacy.

I grew up in Massachusetts and his show left an impact on me. I wish I could go back to those days. Thanks Norm.

Norm was my idol as a woodworker. I must have watched every NYW a dozen times. I still love seeing him and the NYW along with This Old House. I still wear my plaid shirts daily. Love You Norm. The Best Teaching Woodworker Ever. He's a National Treasure. He Deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

In college the girls would have repair issues in their dorm rooms. Calls to the maintenance department meant long delays. After a while the girls knew I had my own tool box and started calling me instead. Freshman year I got fussed at a lot by the maintenance department. After my sophomore year the maintenance department started telling the girls what room I was staying in. The only thing I never could repair was a faucet drip in a girlfriend's sink. (I didn't have a pipe wrench.) I took a measuring cup and timed how long it took to fill the cup. Called maintenance. You know, they were there in half an hour? Years of watching Norm and This Old House were much loved and absorbed. Thank you, sir.

I love Norm Abram, but I absolutely hate the trend of video producers to use AI voice-overs. Every time the voice said "asterisk New Yankee Workshop asterisk" my ears heard fingernails on a chalkboard.

I loved to watch The New Yankee Workshop and also This Old House. Norm's skill and mild mannerisms made him a joy to watch and learn from.

I recently completed a carpentry project. It's said that you learn from your mistakes. I learned a lot doing that project.

Between Norm, Bob Vila, and Steve Thomas, my young adulthood was complete! Such incredible carpenters and ambassadors for the craft.

I love Norm. He and Tom are the best of the best. Rest in peace Roger

Russ Morash and Norm introduced a generation to the joys of woodworking...thank you gentleman for the hours of true entertainment throughout the years...miss The New Yankee Workshop, often duplicated, but never equaled! RIP Russ!

Woodworking had been my hobby for over 45 years. I the beginning I just sort of winged it making very simple stools and whatnot. When i discovered NYW in the late 80's my interest took off. I took on more complex project and really fell in love with the hobby. I owe all to Norm. He's an exceptional personality. Thank you Norm from the bottom of my heart.

Norm will forever be in my heart when I cut or smell fresh cut wood! Thank kindly for sharing your experience and wisdom! DK, Omaha.

A great and informative video to show if you stick to your dreams , anything is possible . In the last year of woodshop we all had a project to do . I ran one piece of pine with the end grain showing . I received my only F in 4 years of woodworking . One summer I went back to my high school woodworking teacher . I told him , i just got hired to apprentice for a Cabinet Maker''s position ..He replied What , you have to be kidding me ! I said no , if you hadn't given me that F , I don't think I would've stuck to my dreams . A bit later on , I had my own business , and built all the kitchens for all 5 of my homes . In closing , Never give up !

Norm took several summer vacations in Scullville, NJ. I lived in Ocean City,NJ . Only about 10 miles away. I was once asked if I was him. I entered a like-look contest at Woodworkers Warehouse and came in 2 place. The beard , flannel shirt and general build did it. I bought many items at Woodworkers Warehouse for my own hobby woodworking business. I loved woodworking from my courses in Ocean City High School. Loved his show more then This Old House when Bob Villa was host. He left, and the show got better. Still enjoy woodworking as a hobby building for friends and family and myself . I'm 72. From Dennistownship, NJ. Norm is a great teacher and tv friend.

I and the whole country loved Norm

Norm was a master at joinery the old methods and some new "biscuit " joints. A true joy to watching the show for many years

He began to become famous on this Old House thank God his own show the Yankee workshop he was an expert at everything he did carpentry

Without a doubt Norm is the king of woodworkers and the greatest of teachers for his ability to explain and show how easy you can do complicated things easily in understandable terms.

I grew up watching The New Yankee workshop with my grandfather and still do wood working from time to time.

New Yankee Workshop was must viewing

I loved watching a lot of his shows of the New Yankee Workshop and This Old House and always wished I could copy his woodworking skills, Thanks Norm you have been a Great Teacher

Norm meant alot to me and my father .It was the 2 shows Toh/Nyw that we really had in common. My father wasn't into sports at all. But when norm was on, you could hear a pin drop. He gave me a way to have something in common with my dad. We often said lets try that on the next room. We did all the remodeling in family homes with cousins aunts and uncles. My first job doing remodeling was taking nails out of old lumber and straighten them out, just to hear they had plenty of nails already. To sweeping up sawdust. I still laugh about it too this day. THANKS NORM ...

I loved this show! He is an amazing woodworker.

Norm was a consumate professional with a workshop that was the envy of every tradesman.

Years ago, his show would come after the Woodright's Shop with Roy Underhill. It was fun watching the contrast between woodworking with hand tools versus Abrams where he could build a wooden space shuttle for launch if he wanted to.

I remember him as as a young mom and wanting my own home which I never lived in. My daughter was born. 1980

One of the greatest😊 I have always enjoyed made my life better Number 1 inspiration

I remember, and none more important than these, safety glasses. Every show that was said.

Loved this video of Norm Abram and his life. I've been a follower since 1990 and have been inspired . Thanks very woodworking Norm

When people like Norm quit building houses. Houses became throwaway junk in homebuilder communities.

I have built or supervised the building of five dozen of his Adirondack chairs. It was a perfect project for my junior high school students.

I enjoyed Yankee workshop show

I bought so many of his plans. I miss this guy

I taped many of his original shows so I could re- watch and learn. I built most of the stuff in my home from cabinets to interior doors. Thanks Norm.

Back in the day we used to record these episodes on a Beta or VHS recorder. The top loader recorders were the thing to have.

Extraordinary coverage of the heartbreaking tragedy.

I truly miss Norm and Bob Vila together. The show was never the same IMHO.

He also worked with This Old House . I never miss an episode and watched the very beginning

The cedar shingles lesson from Norm double the first two rows of cedar shakes then the next nine rows get a little more to the weather until it is 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 inches to the weather ! As I was 150 feet from the Atlantic Ocean on three sides in Nova Scotia South West tip my mile of oceanfront ! Thanks Norm !!!

Enjoyed watching him on This Old House since I was quite young.

I have bought plans for projects from New Yankee Workshop. Table/clap cart, router table.

I love this man. I learned so much from him.

Norm was and is a inspiration for myself and numerous Carpenter's watching TOH and NYW gave many of us the I can do that kick in the butt that pushed me now 48 years and countless Cabinet and trim and more projects. Thanks Norm

We own a prototype of a chimney cabinet he built. It wasn't the one from the show. Norm made a prototype of all his projects to prove the concept. Ours is made of pine. The drywall screws all show. The hinges are mismatched. Just some of the things that make it unique.

What can you say about Norm Abram that hasn't already been said. I started watching Norm on This Old House and then right on into the New Yankee Workshop. I've watched every episode multiple times and the NYW I had every episode taped on VHS, remember that? Seriously though Norm is the Master, I love his Attention to detail and his absolute devotion to doing it right the first time. Norms easy going style of teaching and his method of explaining every step from start to completion is Outstanding. Needless to say I've learned so much from Norm over the years and I would love nothing more than to be able to tell him that face to face. To be able to express how much I respect and admire him and to Thank him for his knowledge and Wisdom through the years. It's so funny, I feel like I already know him even though we've never met. I have been wanting to meet Norm since both of us had dark hair and beards but Unfortunately have never been able to do it. Well were both quite a bit older now and the hair and beard have gone grey! But were both retired now so maybe, If the good Lord allows I'll still get my Chance to meet a Hero. Thank you so much Norm for being the Man that you are. God Bless you Brother and I wish you many many Happy years of good Health and making big piles of saw dust. Jeff M

I always thought that a short bio of Norm's high school shop teacher would be worth watching.

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Are his furniture plans still available ?

Amoung, the best of the best talents are college dropouts. There is no shame in it. Silicon valley is full of these people.

the John Wayne of wood working for sure

Never saw. That show. I enjoyed. To see his skills ❤❤❤

Did he pass on ?

RIP

RIP Norm...

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Well all you need is 10 million dollars worth of tools, and a 6 million dollar building. I like to see what he can do with a 79 dollar circular saw. I built my house with a 79 dollar skill saw. Comon people. I got a 79$ skill saw a 99$ MIG welder a 139$ table saw and a 59$ router wtf. The paratroopers at Normandy in 1944 only had their helmet to protect them

If people had all the tools he had most could do the same thing.