The New Yankee Workshop

Season 2 Episode 6: Pencil-Post Bed

Norm visits the Shelbourne Museum in Burlington, Vermont to examine an antique pencil-post bed with a rope support system and a hay-filled mattress. Norm then adapts this design to accommodate a standard full-size mattress and box spring, and builds his pencil-post bed of poplar featuring mortise and tenon joints in the construction. The bedposts are tapered on the two inner sides, then beveled on all four corners to produce eight-sided, asymmetrically tapered posts.

Genre:

Reality

Seasons:

21

Episodes:

286

Actor:

Norm Abram

Quality:

HD

Status:

Ended

First Air:

1989

IMDb:

9.0