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Norm crafts a glass-front bookcase out of mesquite and, in the process, educates viewers on how to work with this native Sonoran desert hardwood

With help from coppersmith Larry Stearn, Norm recreates a copper-roofed version of the antique cupola that once adorned its roof on The New Yankee Workshop

Norm recreates a reclining Morris chair out of quarter sawn white oak and in the process, shares his secrets for mastering the techniques required to build the chair's reclining back

Norm built his version of an antique Irish bar out of recycled pine.

He builds this antique-style library ladder out of recycled, longleaf Southern yellow pine and in the process, demonstrates how to craft its defining feature - splayed legs joined by a hinged crossbar

Norm replicates a stunning nineteenth-century, black walnut, drop-leaf dining table with graceful turned legs

Norm recreates this three-foot by six-foot linen press featuring streamlined, raised-panel double doors with detail beading out of recycled pine.

Norm fashions a Celtic-style occasional table iusing recycled pine, and in the process demonstrates mortise-and-tenon joinery techniques and shows how to make a tapering jig