On Jan 27, 12:03*am, Mark & Juanita wrote:
BDBConstruction wrote:
On Jan 26, 6:10*pm, "Leon" wrote:
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Oh yeah, that Scott guy from
American Workshop was there but no one seemed to be interested.

That gave me a chuckle, its an absolute sin that that guy has a
national show in the first place. I remember when he first started
about 10 years ago and thought it was bad. I recently forced myself to
watch a couple of the recent episodes and I cant figure how but they
have actually gotten worse, way worse. He is really bad. What really
ticked me off was the episodes a long while back when he was clearly
using the show as a way to bankroll his own house and surely got
thousands and thousands of dollars in sponsor donations and or
discounts. Several of the home/wwking shows have been doing that in
past years, Hometime is another.

* I think what got me when I was watching his show 10 years or so ago was
seeing him do some cut with a plunge router, complete the cut and unplunge
the router, then sit there for about a minute lecturing that one should let
the router come to a complete stop before moving it. *Pretty much tuned him
out after that.

I stopped watching after the Dallas PBS station started running bi-monthly
begathons and kept preempting Norm, Roy, and Scott for such top-shelf
classics as "Why Naomi Woolfe is an American Phenomenon" and the like.
Pretty much made coming back into the house on Saturday afternoons a waste
of time, so I stayed in the shop.

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Agreed, one of the episodes I watched a couple weeks ago was very
similar to the plunge router routine you mention except it happened
about 45 times through the show. He has an obsession with calling out
the specs of his tools (I am sure trying to overly satisfy the
sponsors). He just does it in such a dorky way that comes off like he
is very unskilled. Like when he would use his table saw he would call
out the HP of the motor, length of the fence, as well as many other
stats you would see on the brochure. Another I watched he was touting
Delta's new laser crosshairs for their drill press. Hard to explain
but its so dorky its nausiating. All that coupled with pretty bad
designs and poor craftsmanship make it a flop.

I agree with the PBS thing but for the shows youre talking about there
is nothing else that can even hold a cangle to shows like TOH, NYW,
Woodwright, RWS, The turning shows, etc.. The local PBS here took to
not preempting the saturday shows because they received so many
complaints. They do however pop in briefly at the start of the show
telling you that they are not changing the schedule and they hope you
appreciate it and make a contribution. Its a double edged sword. There
are no other sources that provide uninterupted programming (even
though PBS pushes ads out to the ends of the show) of the quality they
do. Its worth 25 or 50 dollars a year to me. Hell, most pay several
times that per month for 100 channels of flagrant advertising with 30
minutes of content per hour to keep you on the hook.

I wish they had a way (through satellite TV or something) to allow you
to view the non-fundraising programming if you have made a donation.
How long that access would last after xx$ would be the sticky part but
I bet contributions would go up. All said and done, I am affraid the
days are ending for shows like TOH and the like. When you start seeing
the big box logos on a show as good as that I think its a sign of bad
things to come. When I watched one a long time ago and saw Tom Silva
reach up and grab the handle of a Rigid miter saw it said it all Shows
like Hometime have been big box whores forever but TOH always stayed
above the bottom of the barrel in that area. I hope they can stay on
course.

Mark