[pianotech] Norm - O.T.

[Ron Nossaman]

Joseph Garrett wrote:
> Scott,
> I see where there is a desire to lament his program ending. Sorry. Just 
> Not my kind of wood butcher. I prefer the guy that uses all of the Hand 
> Tools, like they are a part of him. I think that is the Yankee Workshop 
> or sumpin like that. 

That's Roy Underhill, who owns stock in Band-Aid, or should. 
Norm first showed up on something like This Old House, as the 
quintessentially inefficient Old World New England carpenter. 
Didn't own a power tool, or even seem to know they existed. 
Turned screws by hand with a screwdriver, drove nails with a 
hammer, worked wood with hand saws, chisels, and hand planes. 
Did everything the hard way. A purist. Measured with a folding 
wooden rule too. No Yo-yo for this guy. Then he discovered the 
20th century, skipping the 19th altogether, and acquired some 
power tools. Didn't do too bad with them either.
Ron N