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Norm Abram is Retiring

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Norm Abram's retirement from This Old House was announced yesterday.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220519005404/en/This-Old-House%C2%AE-to-Air-Tribute-Special-to-Master-Carpenter-and-Television-Trailblazer-Norm-Abram

PBS will air a tribute show to him titled The House that Norm Built. While Norm is 72 and has not appeared on camera for a while, it is sad to see him described as "hanging up his tool belt." I hope he continues woodworking in his retirement, as 72 years old is certainly not too old to do most things with wood. I hope he isn't ill, and I wonder if there's a deeper story to this.

I'm hoping to see him on a YouTube channel, but he doesn't seem to have much of an online presence.

Here's to the legend himself!
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A few years back Vila was on an anniversary show. I enjoyed the very first episodes as they were geared towards remodeling for the common folk. Norm was always great and did more for our hobby than any other modern maker.

All in all, I would take either's broadcast over 95% of the crap on TV these days.
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Morash was singularly responsible for all the home renovation programs that followed. Norm did the same for our hobby. Vila, in the early shows, was the glue that held it together. The direction TOH took was more to keep viewers returning, as the market for watching US knock drywall off walls was limited. The show that brought the early iteration to an end, was one where the homeowners claimed the show took over the project and in a direction against their wishes. What I remember from that time, was the homeowners were MIA and the show had to go on.
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Norm was second place behind Roy Underhill.

- TopamaxSurvivor

I am taking a class on window joinery next weekend and Roy Underhill is the instructor. It seemed like to good of an opportunity to pass up.

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Very lucky! YouTube has Roy videos on window joinery you can seek out, to get a leg up.
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Does anyone else think Norm looked ill in last week s photo? I hope he s okay…

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Not really, he's 74, getting older. He had heart surgery a few years back and as most that come up through the trades, his body has taken a beating.
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