The New Yankee Workshop is shown on the PBS network in the United States. Each week Master Carpenter Norm Abram takes on a different project. Inspiration comes from various sources: museum pieces, viewer requests, and projects Norm finds interesting and useful. Projects range from those suitable for the novice to those challenging enough for a veteran. Projects often contain special challenges that permit Norm to explain various ways to overcome such challenges. For those who wish to tackle the projects themselves, producing public television station WGBH offers measured drawings, with or without tapes (and more recently, DVDs) of the episode.