I gotta believe people that beat up on him for using so many different
advanced power tools are the same people that beat up on atheletes for
being successful and businessmen for making money. Gotta be a
jealously thing.

I don't think that's it. A lot of people here have swell power tools.
Unlike Norm, they might have had to pay actual cash money for theirs but I
still don't believe jealousy is the issue. I think what it usually boils
down to (including the OP in this thread) is people slamming Norm for doing
things differently from the way they would do them.
Norm gets a little nailgun happy sometimes (OK, a lot of the time), and
people gang up on him because they prefer glue and clamps only. Norm slaps
some dark stain on a newly crafted piece of cherry furniture because maybe
he likes the color or it matches all the other Queen Anne furniture in his
house, and people climb all over him as if he has violated one of the 10
Commandments.
What so many people fail to recognize is that NYW is all about demonstrating
different (most often power-assisted) ways of achieving similar outcomes.
So one week you might see Norm making mortices and tenons with his dedicated
morticing machine and a table saw and another week he may use a bit and
brace and some chisels. And the more different techniques he demonstrates
to perform the same type of operation, the more likely he is to deviate from
the way any one guy "always does it."

Lee


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