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Measured Drawings Most projects shown on The New Yankee Workshop has a corresponding measured drawing with all the dimensions you will need to build a replica of Norm's original. These drawings include close-up views of the important details and layouts as well as a major anatomy view of the entire project. A materials list specifying the size and amounts of lumber, sheet-goods, and hardware items is an important part of each plan. Home Videos The home videos are faithful replicas of the programs you’ve seen on television. Using these videos as you build your own projects is like having Norm in your own workshop. Watch the videos and you will be able to follow the steps in sequence that Norm used when he built his furniture. This will save you time and eliminate many mistakes. Additionally, you will be seeing a master craftsman using techniques with hand and power tools that you may want to learn yourself. Each video comes with a measured drawing where applicable. View by Season View by Category View by Name View by Project Number

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Chaise Lounge - Item #9811

Norm takes viewers on an adventure to Utah to witness the dismantling of a twelve-mile long railway trestle which was built at the turn of the century. Eventually progress and better engineering in the 1950s replaced this causeway, and the massive trestlewood pilings which once provided the means by which Southern Pacific was able to cross the Great Salt Lake were all but abandoned. Over years of disuse, the trestlewood, which is comprised of Douglas fir and redwood, eventually became so pickled by lake brine that its grain began to develop an unusual array of colors. Norm acquires some of this trestlewood to build his own outdoor chaise lounge design and in the process, learns quite a bit about current initiatives to harvest this unusual building material.

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