New woodworking show on PBS!

[toolpig]

My fellow woodworkers,

I am a TV producer and have created a new woodworking show for public television called Woodworking Together. It’s the first new woodworking show to come to public television in more than 10 years and features the very first woman to host a true woodworking show, Boston-area cabinetmaker Gail O’Rourke.

Our show is geared toward woodworkers of all skill levels, with a special emphasis on beginners.

Woodworking Together will premiere nationwide on PBS stations in January of 2008.
You can view the show’s “trailer” by clicking on the following link…

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9199733913251364374&hl=en

We are currently seeking corporate sponsors to help underwrite our first season on-air. If you are interested in helping to sponsor Woodworking Together, please send an email to producerboy@verizon.net.

Also, if you would like your local PBS station to carry this program, please be sure to call them and say that you want them to carry Woodworking Together from American Public Television! Local PBS station information can be found at http://www.pbs.org/stationfinder/index.html.

Happy woodworking!!!

[deanthom]

Looking at the trailer now...

[gsm1cox]

The show seems to another Norm clone show.

[deanthom]

Exactly my impression, too. Spookey close to Norm's format, only she did not wear plaid or a beard.

How are you going to differentiate her from Norm? How do you intend to "brand" her??

[charlese]

O.K. show - HAVE A SUGGESTION- Use all safety items like upper saw guard and riving knife unless you explain why they are omitted. Just doesn't look good to have an open saw blade in every picture.

[paulmcohen]

Way to Norm like, at least change the style of the pieces. I assume this is a short version but very difficult to follow what she is doing and I agree lack of guards for the cuts she was making is just bad practice.

[paul heller]

I agree: too Norm like. But how to do it without appearing to copy the master?? Certainly your idea of focusing on beginners is a good approach. That concept was not particularly evident in the promotional video you posted. Norm has certainly gone beyond the beginner.

Go back to the basics and skip the high end tools that none of us have. That does not mean hobby tools. We have bandsaws and such. But I doubt many of us have industrial wide belt sanders.

I liked the part in the wood yard. Show us how she selects the wood, which she chooses, and why.

I was glad to see she used a hand held saw on the horses outside to get close and then cut to final dimension in the shop. Norm justs hefts the entire huge sheet up on his table, and I never liked that approach.

Good luck.

[ericolson]

I figure give 'er a chance!! I like Norm, always will. I like David Marks on DIY. I can't stand the router guys nor do I particularly care for Freeform Furniture. I would like to see a lady take the plunge and do a woodworking show. I'm always interested in learning how someone else does things so, if I like something they do, I can incorporate their methods into my work. The day I can't learn something new is the day all of my machinery goes up for sale!!