here he is https://www.woodcraft.com/blog_entries/experience-woodworking-with-tom-mclaughlin

This is confirmed by our PBS folks

- CharlesNeil

Interesting read, but none of the links to McLaughlin works anymore and this wasn't that long ago. Wonder what happened?

 

Interesting read, but none of the links to McLaughlin works anymore and this wasn t that long ago. Wonder what happened?

- Rayne

Try this link: http://www.epicwoodworking.com/

 

It may be that PBS only wants him on their website.

 

Trading one Tommy Mac for another?

 

Trading one Tommy Mac for another?

- bandit571

I had the same thought. Saving $$ on rebranding, lol.

 

Wow I am way behind! I just watched season 7 epidode 12 and when I saw what he had equipped his shop with…...well it pissed me off.
I was enjoying this season and the new shop build. I get that the tv show guys can afford to build a nicer shop but Tommy went way over board.
The show was never any good to begin with but like others said, it was about the only show available.
Sadly….there will
Never be another Norm. Thankfully I inherited all my Fad's DVDs. I have many years worth of episodes.

 

That s to bad, he was one of the better replacements for Norm. I sure hope they get someone decent to replace him.

- BurlyBob

Agree!

 

Looks like I'm going to be the devel's advocate. Tommy Mac may have started out good, but I couldn't watch the last season without getting P.O.ed every time. I, like most of you, I'm sure, have a garage shop. I don't care to see someone build a 3,500 sq/ft shop that looks nicer than my house with a table saw that costs more than my car. I much prefer the new Tom that shows sensible projects, with practical tips, built with tools that we can all afford.

 

Looks like I m going to be the devel s advocate. Tommy Mac may have started out good, but I couldn t watch the last season without getting P.O.ed every time. I, like most of you, I m sure, have a garage shop. I don t care to see someone build a 3,500 sq/ft shop that looks nicer than my house with a table saw that costs more than my car. I much prefer the new Tom that shows sensible projects, with practical tips, built with tools that we can all afford.

- uglyoldfatman

Not just Tommy but all of the woodworking show. I don't care about the shops, the tools, the attitudes or any of that stuff. If I can learn something I didn't know it makes it well worth it. It they build supper complicated projects above my pay grade there are still technique you can learn. Ad all your learned techniques together and someday you'll be able to build more complex projects. The only bad show is one you learn nothing from.

Side note: If something was pissing me off I'd change the channel.

 

Before Tommy got the PBS show he had a Podcast of his own doing most of his own camera work and having just graduated from the North Bennet street school furniture program,but even though he had minimal tools and did a fair amount of his work on the floor he was doing very sophisticated projects, his first was a Bombe chest on chest that turned out amazingly well and beautiful.
I'm guessing the PBS folks wanted to do more viewer based projects and Tommy wanted to do the more complicated pieces. My contact with him back then he seemed like a great guy perhaps the prestige of having his own show gave him the motivation to have his dream shop and tools.

 

I built the draw leaf table that Tommy and Levi built for my daughter's dining room. Much larger than either Tommy's or the one in Tage's book. Very important to keep everything very square or the leafs are a bit off.