Norm's Sayings...

[Neomorph]

It's nearly 5am and I can't sleep so for a laugh I thought I would try to think of things that Norm says most episodes...

... and nothing is more important than these, (non) safety glasses. (I thought safety glasses wrapped around your eyes!)

... and fasten it with a few brads.

... for this I'll use my joiner.

... for this I'll use pocket hole technology.

... for this I'll use my nuclear powered planer :shock:

Just kidding with the last. It's annoying that he repeats explanations every episode (namely things like the joiner and glasses) and yet skips over things too quickly in other cases. I know it's a half hour show but some of the scenes seem to cut off quickly before you have grasped what he is saying (thank god for my dvd recorder lol).

Don't get me wrong I love the show... it's just that wasting time walking around museums or around factories wastes time that could be used for showing more of his work.

 

[DomValente]

When I first started my workshop my landlord of the time(a farmer)was a budding amateur and seemed to find it amusing that every time he passed my door he would call out, "coupla brads Dom", funny at first.
Problem is everyone else on the farm then nicknamed me 'Coupla'.

 

[Neomorph]

When I first started my workshop my landlord of the time(a farmer)was a budding amateur and seemed to find it amusing that every time he passed my door he would call out, "coupla brads Dom", funny at first.
Problem is everyone else on the farm then nicknamed me 'Coupla'.

It's funny when people call you names that stick... With me it was while I was in army basic training and the NCO's called everyone with their surname which was normal...

Strangely though I was getting a name as a buttkisser as I was seen as being too friendly with the NCO's which I didn't understand at first. It all came out at one night after we all had a few drinks. One of the other noobs asked me why everyone but me got called by their surnames... I looked at them gone out for a while but then the penny dropped... I then had to explain that my name was John Hanton and not Anton John and that when the sarge yelled " 'ANTON" it was just his accent cutting off the "H" :roll: Was quite cool though because everyone was apologising and I got thoroughly smashed as everyone kept buying me pints.

 

[Gary H]

Just thought I'd add...

...I'll do this on my saw station.

...we'll take this over to the sanding station.

...I'll shape this at my router station.

More stations than British Rail!!

Gotta love it though eh?

Gary

 

[Neomorph]

Oh yeah and I forgot my pet hate of American misspellings. I was only just starting to watch Norm when I thought I heard him say...

"... and this door needs a rabbit."

FFS... is this Watership down? :shock: I was laughing my socks off at this guy who was supposed to be a top woodworker. It took me ages to figure out what he was talking about was rebates and thought he was getting it totally wrong... but they do actually call them "rabbets" don't they?

George Bernard Shaw once said that the United States and the United Kingdom are "two countries divided by a common language". He couldn't have been more right. :lol:

 

[DomValente]

I know what he meant, used to subscribe to a well known forum in the States and was never quite sure, especially on the general chat forum, if they were being offensive and probably they often wondered if I was.

Dom

 

[syntec4]

What about after every advert


.....Well hello and good morning

 

[MikeW]

Oh yeah and I forgot my pet hate of American misspellings. I was only just starting to watch Norm when I thought I heard him say...

"... and this door needs a rabbit."

lol, most Americans not living on the east coast make fun of the accent people who live there have. 'Drawers' is an especially wonderful word to listen to Norm pronounce.

As to why in America 'rebates' wasn't kept, I have no idea. But it was in usage early on. My guess is colloquial writing caught up with the mispronunciation that seems rampant on the East coast.

As for other "misspellings," as so many of us came from England, one can only surmise. Most likely our rebellious nature prompted us to shed even the simple, everyday terms in the trades.

Now what is that saying about two nations being separated by a common language...

Take care, Mike

 

[Anonymous]

I was taught at college that a rebate runs with the grain, a rabbet across it, so both terms are right whether in the UK or the USA.
Mind you, I can't vouch for the US version of 'lumber' dimensions! five quarter stock? what's all that about? I was taught that four quarters make one, so it's one and a quarter etc, and I was at infants skool then!

cheers,
Andy

 

[Alf]

I was taught at college that a rebate runs with the grain, a rabbet across it

That's interesting, never heard that one before. Adam Cherubini over on Wood Central is trying to get everyone to call a cross-grain rebate a "fillister" and says that's correct. I fear we'll be saddled with "cross grain" and "with the grain" riders to these terms for many years yet, if they're to be accurately understood.

Sorry, I seem to have wandered dangerously on-topic in the off-topic section.

Cheers, Alf

 

[gidon]

... five quarter stock? what's all that about? I was taught that four quarters make one, so it's one and a quarter etc, and I was at infants skool then!

Yep - they were called "Improper fractions" for a reason .

Cheers

Gidon

 

[Anonymous]

Adam Cherubini over on Wood Central is trying to get everyone to call a cross-grain rebate a "fillister" and says that's correct.

But what about a sash fillister plane Alf? That's specifically for running rebates along the grain for the glass to sit into, but designed to register from the opposite side of the rebate to leave a set amount of timber in, not take a set amount out.
Just to get back off topic, how about 'a few coats of polyurethane bring out the beauty'?

cheers,
Andy

 

[Alf]

Search me. I think that was dismissed as an anomaly or summat. Adam's a bit of a law unto himself. :roll: :lol:

Happily I've not seen enough Norm to get back on topic. :wink:

Cheers, Alf

 

[Anonymous]

Happily I've not seen enough Norm to get back on topic.
:wink:

How about 'This one's just about ready for the finishing room' the scene then cuts to the work being covered in a coat of donkey brown stain of some sort to 'bring out the grain' :shock:

 

[syntec4]

Happily I've not seen enough Norm to get back on topic.
:wink:

How about 'This one's just about ready for the finishing room' the scene then cuts to the work being covered in a coat of donkey brown stain of some sort to 'bring out the grain' :shock:

Donkey Brown
That made me laugh.
Why does he do EVERYTHING dark brown. Did he buy a big tin and needs to use it up?


lee

 

[Noel]

I seem to recall that, ref the rebate/rabbet (as opposed to "rabbit") business that our American friends are more correct (well almost). It's apparently an old French word and rabbet is closer to the original than the *******ised English rebate version.
Yes Nahm and his draahers etc...

Noel

 

[Neomorph]

Happily I've not seen enough Norm to get back on topic.
:wink:

How about 'This one's just about ready for the finishing room' the scene then cuts to the work being covered in a coat of donkey brown stain of some sort to 'bring out the grain' :shock:

Yeah that makes me sick... his finishing room is bigger than my workshop lol... but having a finishing room makes sense. Poly + shavings + dust is not a happy combination.

Also having a few fire extinguishers about the place would be a good bet. I bought my first tin of Danish Oil today and my jaw dropped on the floor when it said on the back "application cloths may spontaniously combust".

:tongue9:

I'm coming to the conclusion that woodworking is one heck of a dangerous job... what with having all those rabbits attacking the furniture as well as polishing cloths bursting into flame... not to mention losing fingers from kickbacks and don't start me on Norm's unshielded dado and table saw... *shiver*

 

[Neomorph]

I seem to recall that, ref the rebate/rabbet (as opposed to "rabbit") business that our American friends are more correct (well almost). It's apparently an old French word and rabbet is closer to the original than the *******ised English rebate version.
Yes Nahm and his draahers etc...

Noel

I spelled it "rabbit" on purpose as that's exactly what it sounds like heh. You will notice I actually spelled it correctly later.

Names can change a lot over the years to what they sound like and a town I was born in is a perfect example. It's called Cannock and when I was at school I did a local history project that was supposed to take 2 weeks... 6 months later I was still looking into it as it was amazing what you can find... and what I found out was the towns real name was Cank... it just got alterred over the years due to non-literacy and local accents.

Going back to Norm's sayings and rabbets is his favourite one of "I shall do it on the dado with the sacrificial fence installed". Images of pagen rituals being carried out on the dado table comes to mind

 

[Shadowfax]

What about "and now it's time for a little assemberley".

SF

 

[JFC]

Re: why cover everything in donkey brown . Hes hiding the gaps :lol: