havn't seen this old house much in the last 15 years but was a big fan of the new yankee workshop.some woodworkers put him down as being too simple,bur he was the average woodworkers hero.i loved how he always did a procedure a different way each time,he showed there were many ways to do something.i hope he is healthy and able to continue his passion. i agree about villa,he was an idiot.
Norm Abram is Retiring
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!
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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your right,as petey said, he was a pompous ass !IMO Bob Villa is an idiot.
Last time I caught him on a show, he was "helping" build a brick wall. They left a gap in the wall for him to put in the last brick. He buttered the bottom and slapped it onto place, but forgot to butter the sides.
He stepped to the side and mentioned how easy it was to get "pro" results easily. You could see the brick layers staring at the gaps on the sides of the brick crack smiles when he made that comment.
- splintergroup
Bob Villa is no idiot..
- JackDuren
really ? well with only 39 posts i guess you dont know how threads evolve here ? heck i thought it was going pretty smooth ! ;-))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
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 !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
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.
- Rich
i dont think norm was money hungry and greedy like villa was. i agree about david marks,loved his show.Bob seems to worth a lot more than Norm.I watch a lot of Bob s shows.and Norms. Enjoy both..
Personally I d rather watch David J. Marks
- JackDuren
ill take norm for the win anyday ! roy just never figured out how to plug a tool in ?Norm was second place behind Roy Underhill.
- TopamaxSurvivor
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