New Yankee Workshop Raised Panel Doors

Norm winds up the new yankee workshop s second season with an armoire based on classic designs but adapted to contemporary use.

New yankee workshop raised panel doors.

Norm builds an armoire that is based on classic designs and can double as an entertainment center. Norm returns to his workshop to build his own model a modified chest of drawers made of knotty pine featuring a base cabinet with raised panel doors and an open shelf section topped with a decorative crown molding detail. Norm also explains the techniques involved in forming the piece s solid surface top. It can double as a home entertainment center.

This season it is unquestionably the hutch he crafts out of 200 year old pine. It has raised panel doors and is. Norm s version is constructed largely of veneer plywood and features raised panel doors. Norm builds a cherry bathroom vanity based on one he designed for his own home guiding the woodworker through the details of constructing the vanity s raised panel doors using only a router.

In building the project norm demonstrates many of the joinery techniques he s employed throughout the season including dado dovetail and mortise and tenon joints and shows how to use a shaper to create moldings for the piece. Norm s own design for a corner cupboard constructed back in his workshop from pine and plywood incorporates a top section closed in with glass paned doors and a base cabinet with raised. In the parsonage at old sturbridge village a living history museum in sturbridge massachusetts norm admires a built in comer cupboard in the house s parlor.