The New Yankee Workshop - Season 18 - Eps 2: Plantation Shutters
If you've priced plantation shutters lately, you know how expensive they can be, costing several hundred dollars per opening. Not surprisingly, Yankee ingenuity and thrift get the better of Norm and he creates some stunning shutters in the workshop. As his admirers have come to expect, he first builds a collection of jigs, which are necessary to drill holes, set staples, and mortise hinges. Then he shapes the individual bass wood slats, mounts them on a control rod, and positions the whole assembly into a frame of poplar that then gets spray-painted. You'll be impressed at how well these interior shutters look and operate when he installs them in a room he's been working on for some time.
About The New Yankee Workshop

Title: The New Yankee Workshop
First Air Date: 1989-01-07
Last Air Date: 2009-06-27
Status: Ended
Rating: 10/10 (from 1 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 21
Total Episodes: 286
Network: PBS
Genres: Reality
Production Companies: Unknown
Synopsis
The New Yankee Workshop is a woodworking program produced by WGBH Boston, which aired on PBS. Created in 1989 by Russell Morash, the program is hosted by Norm Abram, a regular fixture on Morash's This Old House. The series aired for 21 seasons before broadcasting its final episode on June 27, 2009.
Cast

Norm Abram
Host