commercial consideration ? Its not like How Its Made where you never really see the manufacturer's name. These have GOTTA be sponsered plugs. And everyones right about the host. He must live on the eighty second floor in Manhattan because I don't think hes had a tool in his hand before this gig ! Cool Tools orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Martha . . . . EH GODS !
I'm pretty sure that most of these shows are conduits for presenting specific manufactures' products to us. (Well not to Glenn, because he's not watching
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New Yankee Workshop - Norm's shop is like at least 80% Delta and P-C. He is also sponsered by Rockler, Minwax, and a few others. Nothing but K-Bodies holding his glue ups together too.
Tools & Techniques - David Thiel always features specific brands of products. However he spreads it around, so you don't see the same manufacturers products every week. He also shows a decent amount of lower cost home shop tools (Ryobie, Craftsman, and Skil).
Cool Tools - I could says something about the host, but I think we have come to a consensus on that one
. The show is essentially an info-mercial, but wide variety of products and manufactures ranging from B&D to Festool.
Woodworks - Interestingly enough, David Marks goes out of his way to obscure the maker of his tools (Even though we all know what a Festool ROS and a DeWalt Biscuit Joiner looks like.) David actually puts electical tape on the brand names on his tools. The only time he has mentioned brand names was on his shop tour show. That was only for the very large pieces of shop equipment- Delta table saw, Delta band saw, Oliver Lathe, OneWay Lathe.
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By-the-way, did you that David Mark's shop is a 1600 sqft former horse barn? That makes me want to cry, my entire house is almost that many sq ft.