Popular Woodworking Norm Abram Interview

11 Responses to “Popular Woodworking Norm Abram Interview”

1. D Walker on July 26th, 2007 10:54 am

   Norm’s the last person I’d poke fun of………..I was really impressed with his tiger maple highboy. Looking forward to the interview you did with David Marks.

2. Kerry on July 26th, 2007 1:52 pm

   I happened to be standing right there while the interview was shot … but with all the background noise of the show I couldn’t hear a thing Norm and Steve were saying. Microphones are wonderful things!

3. Paul Comi on July 26th, 2007 10:11 pm

   Thanks for the link. I especially enjoyed the Scott Philips’ interview and look forward to seeing new American Woodshop programs. It was interesting when asked both Norm and Scott which 3 tools they felt were most important if starting over in woodworking. Norms’ first tool mentioned was the table saw, then jointer, then thickness planer. Scott’s first tool mentioned was the woodworking bench, then table saw, then a good carbide blade for the table saw. Its Scott’s generous use of hand tools and his healthy dose of mixing power with hand tools that I really like.

4. Ray on July 27th, 2007 4:53 am

   Great interview. Would love to keep Norm working to show me everything I need to learn, but realize we all have to retire sometime. Thanks all for a great site and wish you all the best.

5. David Turgeon on July 27th, 2007 9:11 am

   I just watched the interview with Norm. It was nice to hear someone in his own words who has inspired you. The interview gave Norm a more human “face” rather than a celebrity. One question that was asked made me wonder though…God forbid the day the NYW retires Norm. Maybe Marc Spagnuolo could be the Jay Leno (Johnny’s successor) to the NYW?? You are able to grow a beard and wear plad arn’t you??

6. Claude Stewart on July 27th, 2007 11:04 am

   I keep getting a DNS lookup error when I click on Norm’s interview link. Anybody else having this problem?

7. thewoodwhisperer on July 27th, 2007 11:21 am

   There are many people reporting problems Claude. Unfortunately, other than making sure you have the latest updates for your browser, Im not sure what you can do.

8. Jorge Monclova on July 27th, 2007 2:14 pm

   The DSN problem is that your Internet provider is not translating the site name to the correct ip address. Try using the IP address direclty by typing the following url:

   http://63.218.41.203/index.html?showid=282533

   I’m not sure if this will work but is worth a try.

   Jorge

9. Mike in St. Paul on July 27th, 2007 8:44 pm

   Thanks for posting the link. Great interview! He is so darn nice that it’s impossible not to like Norm. I know he has to retire someday, but hopefully not anytime soon.

   Wish I could meet him some day… and you, too, Marc! :-)

10. Todd Hixson on July 31st, 2007 4:28 pm

    I have been very lucky to meet Norm twice and he has always taken time to chat when he wasn’t busy, before he retires I would love to see him put together a show of his bloopers, well at least I hope he has made some mistakes building projects.

    Thanks also for posting the link, I enjoyed the interview.
    Todd

11. Claude Stewart on August 2nd, 2007 7:01 am

    Well Thanks Jorge but that didn’t work for me. I guess hughesnet isn’t going to work for this link which is a shame because I really did want to listen to it. Although I am confounded by it because everything else works on this site. Claude

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