Abram takes a visitor on a tour of the kitchen, explaining everything in detail. He doesn't just explain how to do it, but why it is being done, the economy behind it, its practicality, and the materials and tools needed to do the job.
"He's a perfectionist and the audience knows they're seeing quality work," said Tom Silva, the general contractor on "This Old House" who has worked with Abram for about 20 years.
The new season also dips into the archives to update one of the show's most popular projects, an Adirondack chair Abram built in the second season. But even this project has a twist. For the first time he invites a woodworking novice -- the show's production coordinator, Sara Ferguson -- to build an Adirondack chair, table and footrest alongside him.
"To see a woman on the show, trying her hand at it, hopefully other women say 'Wow, if she can do it, I can do it too,'" Ferguson said.
Building stuff has been virtually a lifelong pursuit for ! Abram, who was inspired by his father growing up in Milford, a suburb of Boston.
His father was always handy with his tools, and eventually gave up a job as a mechanic in a woolen mill to work as a builder. Abram remembers at age 9 helping his father lay hardwood flooring at a job site one Christmas Eve.
It wasn't long before he was doing his own projects. "I was always playing around with something, I could just get lost for hours in the basement just hacking around with pieces of wood and just using my imagination a little bit," he said.
He worked with his father during summers all through high school and while at the University of Massachusetts, where he took engineering and business classes to complement his craftsman skills.
"My father didn't want me to be in the trades, but I just always had a feeling that I wanted to have a construction business," he said.
If he hadn't, he never would have met Morash.
The two crossed paths while Ab! ram was building a home for a friend of Morash's on Nantucket.! Morash was impressed with his work and hired Abram to build a barn on his property.
That gray barn with blue trim stands today as the front end of the workshop.
At that time in the late 1970s, Morash was just formulating the plans for "This Old House." He needed a woodworker, and Abram was the perfect fit.
"We've been working together ever since," said Morash, who was also the man who brought Julia Child and original "Victory Garden" guru Jim Crockett to television.
The three PBS icons share common traits, including the ability to make what seems baffling appear so simple through a step-by-step process.
"Julia and Norm can both think in the abstract," he said. "Julia could taste something in her mind before even making it. Norm can look at a project and figure out the problems ahead of time. That's what makes him so good."
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