If you go to the NYW website, the featured project is a drop leaf
table which requires some M&T joints.

Here is Norm with an early contractor's saw making cheek cuts for the
tenons using ONLY the fence.

This was obviously long before Delta coughed up a tenoning jig for the
show and Norm's message of safety.

BTW, grew up with a painted drop leaf table as a kitchen table long
before plastic laminate existed.

Our table was laminated with linoleum.

Need, the mother of invention.

Lew

On Jan 22, 1:43*am, "Lew Hodgett" wrote:
If you go to the NYW website, the featured project is a drop leaf
table which requires some M&T joints.

Here is Norm with an early contractor's saw making cheek cuts for the
tenons using ONLY the fence.

This was obviously long before Delta coughed up a tenoning jig for the
show and Norm's message of safety.

BTW, grew up with a painted drop leaf table as a kitchen table long
before plastic laminate existed.

Our table was laminated with linoleum.

Need, the mother of invention.

Lew

Just finished watching "Blanket Chest" #104. Boy, that was strange
seeing him use that old TS and router table.

Lew Hodgett wrote:
....

BTW, grew up with a painted drop leaf table as a kitchen table long
before plastic laminate existed.

Our table was laminated with linoleum.

Need, the mother of invention.
....

Nothing at all uncommon about that; still have several of them including
grandmother's kitchen table around. Based on appearance I think it's
highly likely at least one or two of these were manufactured this way
rather than being home-brewed covered.

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On Jan 22, 1:43*am, "Lew Hodgett" wrote:
If you go to the NYW website, the featured project is a drop leaf
table which requires some M&T joints.

Here is Norm with an early contractor's saw making cheek cuts for the
tenons using ONLY the fence.

This was obviously long before Delta coughed up a tenoning jig for the
show and Norm's message of safety.

BTW, grew up with a painted drop leaf table as a kitchen table long
before plastic laminate existed.

Our table was laminated with linoleum.

Need, the mother of invention.

Lew

The New Yankee Workshop website from 1999:
http://web.archive.org/web/199910120...newyankee.com/