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New Yankee Workshop Plans from Series 1

New Yankee Workshop Plans from Series 1

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Medicine Cabinet (measured drawing)

Ref: NY1011-C

Price: £10.50 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

After a tour of The New Yankee Workshop to preview the collection of furniture he will build in the first season, Norm visits a "retiring room" at the Hancock Shaker Village in western Massachusetts to find a model for a handcrafted medicine cabinet. Drawing inspiration from a looking glass and cabinet, Norm uses durable red oak and oak plywood to construct a medicine chest of his own design featuring box-joint joinery.

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Workbench (measured drawing)

Ref: NY1021-D

Price: £10.50 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

A good workshop begins with a well-equipped workbench, and master woodworker Norm uses one from his own shop as a model for the conveniently-sized and affordable workbench he builds in this episode. After a look at a workbench used 100 years ago by the craftsmen at Hancock Shaker Village in western Massachusetts, Norm builds a workbench featuring an oak-edged hardwood top, a bench vice, a recessed tool storage area on top and a shelf beneath.

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Drop Leaf Table (measured drawing)

Ref: NY1031-C

Price: £10.50 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

Norm uses ash, a durable hardwood, to fashion a drop-leaf table featuring turned legs, a top and leaves made from glued up stock. Norm shows how to turn the table legs on a duplicating lathe and reveals a few tricks for making mortise and tenons joints. Using a router and two special bits, he shows how the drop-leaf joint is made.

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Blanket Chest (measured drawing)

Ref: NY1041-C

Price: £10.50 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

Norm travels to the island of Nantucket off the Massachusetts coast to look at a handmade blanket chest in a sea captain's house dating from 1790. Incorporating elements of this antique in his own design, Norm builds a blanket chest of pine, lined with aromatic cedar panels.

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Bedside Table (measured drawing)

Ref: NY1051-C

Price: £10.50 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

Norm constructs a bedside table inspired by one found at the Hancock Shaker Village in western Massachusetts. Norm's design, made from pine, features a shallow drawer, table legs tapered on the inner sides and a table top with a breadboard design (glued boards edged with wood on two ends).

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Oak Bathroom Vanity (measured drawing)

Ref: NY1061-C

Price: £10.50 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

Norm builds a bathroom vanity whose design is inspired by a dry sink he found at Fruitlands, a 1790 Shaker house and museum located in Harvard, Massachusetts. The vanity, constructed of oak, features dovetailed joints, a high-pressure laminate top and Shaker-style double doors with a flat panel on the outside and a raised panel on the inside.

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Trestle Table (measured drawing)

Ref: NY1071-C

Price: £10.50 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

Norm visits Old Sturbridge Village, a "living history" museum in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, to investigate colonial life and furnishings and returns to the workshop with a period design for an X-brace trestle table. The handsome sturdiness of this versatile cherry piece makes it a welcome addition to any room, whatever the decor.

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Bookcase (measured drawing)

Ref: NY1081-C

Price: £10.50 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

A visit to the "Stone Bank" at Old Sturbridge Village inspires Norm to build a freestanding bookcase with a cornice detail at the top, adjustable shelves and a removable base made of pine. Norm makes his bookcase from birch plywood, which is more stable than solid wood and offers a smooth surface for painting.

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Chest of Drawers (measured drawing)

Ref: NY1091-C

Price: £10.50 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

Norm draws inspiration for a chest of drawers from a piece he inspects at the Hancock Shaker Village in western Massachusetts. Norm constructs his own chest of drawers from Ponderosa pine, demonstrating how to cut and plane the wood, glue the boards for the top and sides and build the drawers, drawer case and frames, and base.

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Candle Stand (measured drawing)

Ref: NY1101-C

Price: £10.50 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

Norm travels to the Hancock Shaker Village in western Massachusetts to gather ideas for his own design for a candle stand. Returning to his workshop, Norm shows home woodworkers how to build an exact replica using power tools, including a lathe, router and band saw.

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Hutch (measured drawing)

Ref: NY1111-C

Price: £10.50 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

In the kitchen of the Fitch House at Old Sturbridge Village, a "living history" museum in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, Norm shows viewers an early American hutch, known in its day as a cupboard (a hutch was for rabbits). Norm returns to his workshop to build his own model, a modified chest of drawers made of knotty pine, featuring a base cabinet with raised panel doors and an open shelf section topped with a decorative crown-molding detail.

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Writing Desk (measured drawing)

Ref: NY1121-C

Price: £10.50 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

Norm demonstrates how to build a slant-top writing desk with tapered legs, a shallow desk drawer and a nest of small drawers and open bins fitted into the top. Constructed mostly of maple.

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Corner Cupboard (measured drawing)

Ref: NY1131-C

Price: £10.50 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

In the parsonage at Old Sturbridge Village, a "living history" museum in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, Norm admires a built-in comer cupboard in the house's parlor. Norm's own design for a corner cupboard, constructed back in his workshop from pine and plywood, incorporates a top section closed in with glass-paned doors and a base cabinet with raised panel doors.

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