On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 06:47:06 GMT, "Mike Hide"
wrote:

Norms shows are entertainment but many consider them to be instructional,

Of course they're instructional. I defy anyone to not learn something
from them.

anyone but a rank amateur who sees the show as instructional knows these
projects are not done in 30 minutes.

I think you do a disservice to rank amateurs...and place too much
emphasis on what the show is or isn't, or what you think it should be.

As I said earlier Norm is in fact a glorified carpenter.

You say that as though it's a crime.

At least in other show TOH he uses experts in the various field of house
renovation.

Like the project where he got finishing tips from a professional
finish restorer? And the projects subsequent to that where he has
mentioned he's employed those tips in the currennt project?

So why not someone who knows at least the rudiments of
finishing in his other show .

Please. What "rudiments" of finishing does he not know? If you're just
a finishing snob, then there's no correct answer. So many finishing
snobs blindly prostrate themselve at the altar of David Marks and his
incessant tung oil use that they get completely lathered at their
perception of what the *right* finish shoudl be.

Honestly, you sound as bad as the guy who posted a while back that
Norm doesn't show the proper respect for the wood. What hogwash.

After all the finishing aspects are just as important as how the thing is
built ,if the finish is crap so is the end item.....mjh

Crap? Norm has done polyurethane, wax, modified French polish, tung
oil, and a couple of others that I can't recall. Are they all crap, or
is it just one or two you think are crap?

I suppose the same naysayers who rail on him about "doing a whole
project in 30 minutes" figure he's doing a crap finish because he
"does it alll in the last two minutes of the program."

Not one time have I heard any one of these same people say what finish
it is that he *ought* to be doing.


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