Norm Abram is Retiring

well that congratulatory thread went in the pishatoo pretty quick.

hope Norm has time to finally enjoy all he s work for, and health, happiness, & peace follow him wherever he decides to go in life.

- secharles

really ? well with only 39 posts i guess you dont know how threads evolve here ? heck i thought it was going pretty smooth ! ;-))

- pottz

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Norm is awesome. He single-handedly inspired a generation of woodworkers.

On the other hand, guys like Russ Morash and Bob Vila are parasites sucking at the public broadcasting teat. After all, Morash fired Vila for trying to horn in on his gold mine, so Vila started his own scam. He had a stake in most of the projects on his show-if not all. As I recall the "banana house" belonged to his sister, which he never disclosed on the series.

The New Yankee Workshop existed on Morash's property. Those tools were his. Recall how there was always a prototype for each project? One of them wound up in Morash's house each time.

I'm not faulting profit from productions like those, I fault the use of PBS funding for personal gain.

yes all true my friend.but morash was the creator and did deserve the reward.without his creative drive there would be no TOH today,nor new yankee workshop.villa was a leach that morash simply scrapped how his leg.villa was merely his puppet,not even a good one.i doubt he was missed by many.surely not by me -lol !

- pottz

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All good points. With millions of grifters and leaches out there anyway, at least Russ gave us some good shows.

If there were no This Old House or New Yankee Workshop, would we ever have VCG Construction or Stumpy Nubs?

- StarBright

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And that would be bad why?

If there were no This Old House or New Yankee Workshop, would we ever have VCG Construction or Stumpy Nubs?

- StarBright

And that would be bad why?

I have relearned a lot from several u-tube hosts. Stumpy, Cosman, Wright, Kruger, Sellers, and of course on PBS, Underhill. A good thing.

BTW, Villa was accused of miss-directing funds.

- Rich

- tvrgeek

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Please edit carefully. The way you screwed up the quoting in your post makes it appear that what you wrote was said by me.

You don t like VCG Construction or Stumpy Nubs?

- StarBright

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Stumpy Nubs is way off the mark quite often. He's a monetized video maker, not a source of the best information.

Case in point, he injured himself using a chainsaw wheel on an angle grinder. Instead of trying to find out what he did wrong, he did a series of those "Never use this product" videos. They got lots of views and made money for him, but it was totally off-the-mark.

He broke several rules regarding the use of those wheels, yet blamed the tool instead of himself.

If you doubt me, go watch his videos (I found three, there may be more), then watch the King Arthur Tool Company video where they explain how to properly use the product. You'll see clearly that it was he, not the tool, that is responsible for the accident.