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Paul Timberman's Workshop: Lazy Susan
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Paul Timberman plans a Lazy Susan for a family meal honoring his grandfather. He enthusiastically explains the value of protective gloves, then turns routine cutting and assembly into a string of injuries. A commercial for remote-controlled tools offers another dangerous shortcut. Back in the workshop, installing the finished centerpiece calls for one last confident demonstration.
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Highly quotable.
These are my gardening gloves.
Thank God for the glove.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:01
Paul Timberman
Oh, hi there! welcome to paul timberman's workshop i'm paul timberman you know every year on grandpa timberman's birthday me and the wife and kids like to honor his memory by eating his favorite meal cream steak tomorrow's the day you know i owe a debt of gratitude to grandpa timberman he taught me everything i know about safe woodworking and his untamily falling into the wood chipper a little while back kind of shook us up all right all right okay you know the timbermen's love to eat and
- 00:38
Paul Timberman
instead all that rude reaching and grabbing we had last year i thought it'd be real nice if i surprised him by making a nice lovely lazy susan for the center of the dining room table now the first thing we're going to want to do is give this lovely lady some curves fashion this fine country missus into a circle before i do that very Very important, I'm gonna put on my safety gloves.
- 00:56
Paul Timberman
Now these gloves here are lined with a space-age type steel that'll resist even the strongest of titanium blades. These suckers will take anything. Which is very important, because we're gonna be working with our jigsaw today. Here we go.
- 01:09
Get
- 01:16
Paul Timberman
All right. Well, look at what we went down, huh?
- 01:20
Paul Timberman
There we go. You know what? I just realized something. These are my gardening gloves. 100% time. They're real nice, too. There we are.
- 01:34
Paul Timberman
These are them titanium gloves I was telling you about.
- 01:38
Paul Timberman
You circus. Next all right yeah
- 01:48
Paul Timberman
thing you're going to want to do is dress up your lazy shoes with some decorative wood pegs. And how we're going to do that is we're going to take our steel mallet in one hand, and in the other hand we're going to... All right, looks like I'm going to have to get a little bit creative here. Here we go.
- 02:04
Paul Timberman
There we are. All right. All right, take your wood pegs, place it where you'd like it, and take a look here. Look at that. I've got my steel-lined glove on like I was telling you about. This is very important because, yes, this is my steel-lined glove.
- 02:24
Paul Timberman
Just take this baby, place it where you'd like it, and just give it a little gentle tap-tap. Tap-tapity, tap-tap. Now, you know what?
- 02:31
Paul Timberman
This bugger's going to need a little bit more encouragement, so let's...
- 02:34
Oh, he's all right!
- 02:35
Paul Timberman
Now, look what I did. I went and hit my hand instead of hitting the wood peg, but look at that. See that glove? What did I tell you? See, look at that. Look at that glove. See, there's no damage to that glove. That's like the day I bought that thing. Look at that, see? Look, let me show you.
- 02:48
Paul Timberman
Damn! Oh, boy. Yeah.
- 02:54
Paul Timberman
That could have been a very serious accident, but... As you can see, my thumb and forefinger are still fine. Thank God for the glove.
- 03:03
Paul Timberman
Look, I'm a lobster. Let's get a commercial. Hi, I'm Paul Timberman of Paul Timberman's Workshop. shop. If you're like me, you like turning your TV set on and off with your remote control without ever having to leave the comfort of your favorite chair. Well now, thanks to Tool Co., you can use that same technology to turn your power tools on and off.
- 03:27
Paul Timberman
Just watch. at that. Just look at that cut. I couldn't have done it any better myself. And how do you know it's a genuine Tool Co. remote? Just listen for the click. That click tells you that...
- 03:45
Hey, we're trying to shoot a commercial here! He's using them monster tools. Get out! Get out! Get out!
- 03:51
Paul Timberman
Remember,
- 03:54
Paul Timberman
Remember, with Tool Co., all your troubles are behind you. All right, now To secure our finished Lazy Susan to the tabletop, we're actually going to have to bolt it right through the table, which means we're going to drill another hole right through the center here. Now, normally I'd measure it, but I've done this so many times, I'm just going to eyeball it. Let's get our trusty drill.
- 04:17
Paul Timberman
There, right there. Let's honk it down. Give us a honk.
- 04:22
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12,
- 04:24
Paul Timberman
There you go. In any second now, you're going to see that drill bit pop up through the table like a prairie dog's head at lunchtime.
- 04:32
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- 04:40
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