Norm uses salvage oak to make a drop-leaved corner table.

Norm paddles a canoe over some rapids in search of unusual white oak that's been submerged there for nearly 150 years. The oak was used in a dam on Virginia's mighty Rappahannock River. Today it's a pile of salvage on the river's edge. Norm engages Bill Jewel, a local sawyer of historical trees, to prepare this timber for making a drop-leaved corner table. After Norm gets the wood to his shop, he expends considerable effort turning it into suitable pieces needed to make a copy of the original table - which Norm found at Kenmore House, a noted Fredericksburg mansion that was once owned by George Washington's sister - including the challenging turned legs that add so much style to this particular piece.