I have never had cable, and if it isn't on PBS at some hour i'm awake (or conscious), then I don't see it anyway.   Nothing to get excited about in any case..it's only TV.   Kind of like looking at Fine Homebuilding (back when i got it) and realizing that it had no relationship to my version of reality - ditto with Fine Woodworking.  It may exist in some world, just not in mine.

Every now and then I'll make something and show it off somewhere on the internet. Frequently someone will ask "how long did it take to make that?"

 

it it takes as long as it takes. 

 

Im not doing this for money. I do it for me. Some days I feel like working in the shop all day. Other days only a few hours. If I'm not in the right mood, or I'm tired, it's time to turn the lights off and call it a day. 

 

I showed a coffee table table a bit ago. How long?  About 2 weeks. Could I go faster?  Maybe. But that sounds like a job. Not something I do because I enjoy it. 

 

I may take an hour or more to plan out a part. 

 

Its ok to think before you act. 

My feelings, exactly!

John

I enjoyed watching Norm and learned a lot along the way. If you watch the early shows he had a table top router table and lots of other small tools. I can't fault him for taking the larger tools and using them. I have upgraded almost every tool in my shop to larger tools as I can. As I have learned to do things and more about the tools I have chosen tools that help me get the job done safer and faster. I moved up from a 24" table saw to a Delta 52" 1987 model. Went from a 6" jointer to an 8" and would have gone to the 12" had I had the room.

 

Hey size matters!!

 

2 hours ago, John Moody said:

I enjoyed watching Norm and learned a lot along the way

 

so many miss the context of his shows...

in all of his shows he introduced other ways to ''get 'er done'' ...

forest for the trees...

I guess I'm different about watching the shows...I always enjoy them; even when the craftsmanship is as poor as Scott Phillips usually demonstrates. Norm and David was my favorite, but Roy gets very high marks. Even though I'm not a big hand tool user his show always educates me on things about tools I didn't know, and a lot of those things on hand tools followed through to the power tool successor. But to be fair, when DIY channel was really a DIY channel (as opposed to The Rock Gardening channel) the had a couple of "woodworking" shows I couldn't watch. One had a guy named Bruce Johnson, the other Amy Matthews......they both missed the mark by a mile. Funny thing about Scott's show, if you go back maybe 15+ years ago the show was much better than what he does today.

Edited April 6, 20179 yr by Fred W. Hargis Jr

Fred:   Scott Phillips lives  about an hour's drive south of you.    Just south of Lockington, OH,   north of Piqua, OH. 

 

Sometimes, I'll watch the Ask this Old House, and skip the  This Old  House part.  

 

Hometime was another show I used to like.  

 

I just watched the pbs.org on youtube to catch Underhill doing his thing.   I can go back 155 episodes IF I choose. 

 

I doubt IF anyone would want to watch my tired old rearend at work in the Dungeon Shop.   can't imagine how long a show that latest little table would have been.....certainly longer than Norm's show would have been....I can work fast, but not quite THAT fast.  

 

 

A note about Norm. He did not own the shop nor the tools . They belonged to the producer of the show. The producer got one of the two of each project done and I think Norm got the second. In case you did not know the story of how the show was started Norm was doing a pergala by himself and the producer saw him and they struck up a friendship (greatly condensed).

An interesting surprise, apparently McDonald has announced he will no longer be doing the Rough Cut show. Haven't a clue on what happens to him or the show.

  I cut the cable to the idiot box about a year and a half ago, I pay for a scrip tonetflix, our son pays for hulu and our daughter has amazon prime and we can all tap into each other's accounts from our individual homes. The commercials on most cable channels were what was driving me bonkers. 25 min of show and 35 min of ads alot of the time. A commercial break would end and go into another on 4 minutes later!  With the same flippin' ads! Then it would be 7 minutes, the 3.     Uggggh! I had enough!

 

Now we choose what we want to watch, when we watch and can put it away for a bit if we get sidetracked or bored. 

A for WW shows, I got tired of most of them since they were rehashing much of what I had already seen much of the time. And I think Norm made a smart move closing the doors when he did, shortly after the peak of his popularity, IMHO. no use beating a dead horse. 

Now there is Short Attention Span Theater, (AKA youtube) for all sorts of WW content. (And baloney)

 

I thought I would share my take on the Sylvester and Tweety posts, My Brother always identified with Sylvester and said he wanted him on his urn, so that's what I gave him 2 1/2 years ago, All wood inlay with a scroll saw.  I almost seemed a shame to put it into the ground in Wisconsin but it gave his family much comfort in the months before his internment. R.I.P. Kieth.

 

21 minutes ago, joe the gas man said:

it gave his family much comfort in the months before his internment. R.I.P. Kieth.

Wonderful tribute to your brother.