Woodworking Courses & Classes

Online woodworking courses are derived from extensive woodworking and furniture making. Learn to design and make furniture, use hand tools, make dovetails, set up a workshop. Discover new woodworking techniques. Make your woodworking efficient, eliminate mistakes, and enjoy the experience!

Woodworking Course

Learn woodworking using a structured approach. Understand the fundamentals before delving into advanced woodworking topics. The course follows the curriculum used in woodworking schools. This knowledge will develop you as a woodworker for years to come. Invest time to learn woodworking from the ground up!  Save time, buy the right tools, learn correct joinery to use. Set up a workshop in any size space. Start Woodworking eBook included with the course.

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Start Woodworking

Start woodworking today! 115 pg. book introduces woodworking and the tools to begin woodworking.  An inexpensive set of tools is featured and how to use the tools. Described are important woodworking concepts to guide you through woodworking. Simple woodworking project included. Start Woodworking (eBook) included with online courses and classes!
eBook ($15)

Learn woodworking at your speed with online woodworking courses. Having authored six woodworking books, I share extensive furniture making knowledge with you. Learn to use hand tools. Design your own furniture. Woodworking plans available to build a dovetail jig, Moxon vise, shooting board. Start Woodworking eBook included with courses.

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  • $40

Woodworking Course

  • Course
  • 55 Lessons
  • Includes 1 additional product

Learn woodworking fundamentals using a structured approach (updated 2024). Explore the essentials of woodworking, the tools, machines and techniques. Find out how to choose the best woods and to correctly select and use tools. This knowledge will develop you as a woodworker for years to come. Invest time to correctly learn woodworking from the ground up. Fast track your woodworking skills!
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  • $50

Woodworking: Design To Making

  • Course
  • 30 Lessons
  • Includes 1 additional product

Are you an aspiring furniture maker. This 10 hour (30 lesson) information-packed master class teaches furniture design + making. Delivered by furniture designer + maker Norman Pirollo. Topics range from developing a design from a concept, workshop setup, hand tools + machines in your shop, joinery, jigs, templates, precision with tools, veneering, CAD. Includes eBook (235 pgs.) and 5 hrs. of Live Classes.
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  • $40

Furniture Design Course

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  • 26 Lessons
  • Includes 1 additional product

Learn furniture design and furniture making (over 7 hrs.). The course is based on skills developed in a functioning furniture making studio. Learn from an expert in furniture making and woodworking. Discover how to design your own furniture from concept to drawing to prototypes. Norman Pirollo, furniture maker for 25 years, is featured in magazines and books. Includes (2 hr.) live class on Furniture Design
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  • $40

Hand Tool Class

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  • 45 Lessons
  • Includes 2 additional products

Learn how to select and use hand tools (updated 2024). Hand tools offer a quiet, dust free alternative to machines. Develop techniques to create furniture using hand tools. Hand planes, chisels and dovetail joinery are featured. Shooting board plan, dovetail jig plan included. Bench hook project included with class. Set up your workshop for hand tool woodworking. Includes Start Woodworking (eBook).
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Includes 2 Additional Products

  • $40

Woodworking Business Course

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  • 27 Lessons
  • Includes 1 additional product

Start your own woodworking business. Learn the steps to launch a woodworking business. Topics include workshop setup, get the right machines and tools, space requirements, marketing strategies, selecting a niche, developing products. Avoid mistakes when starting your woodworking business. Learn from someone who launched four woodworking businesses. Includes Start Your Own Woodworking Business (eBook,130 pgs.)
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  • $40

Kumiko: Learn Japanese Woodworking

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  • 23 Lessons
  • Includes 1 additional product

Learn the traditional Japanese craft of Kumiko featuring asa-no-ha motif. Detailed steps to create the pattern are demonstrated. Guide Block plans included. Elevate your woodworking by incorporating Kumiko into furniture or wall art. Kumiko panels are created using hand tools and some machinery in initial wood prep. Video included of dedicated Kumiko bench hook to allow creation of grid using only hand tools.
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Jorge R. Perez of Flushing , NY says this of Woodworking Course
"It helped me improve my woodworking skills considerably"

Steve Vidal of Throop, PA says this about the Woodworking Course
"All woodworkers, novice or professional, will benefit from this course"

Bruce Holden of Cut Knife High School, Saskatchewan says
"Congratulations on an excellent woodworking course! I teach woodworking in a rural Saskatchewan high school and recommend your course to my students."

James Cowell of Glendale, Utah says this about Woodworking Course
"I wanted to learn woodworking but didn't know where to begin. The course helped me out"

Larry Broadbent says "I purchase a lot of woodworking plans and woodworking books online. I just purchased this Kumiko Course today. I'm extremely impressed with the quality of the PDF's and videos in this course. I definitely recommend this Kumiko course to anyone wanting to get started in the woodworking art of Japanese Kumiko."

Kevin Drevik says "FYI, liked your course on setting up a woodworking business. Glad I purchased it!"

Patrick Soran says WOODWORKING: FROM DESIGN TO MAKING " Beautiful book. Well done."

Quiet Woodworking: In An Unquiet World

Discover how hand tools create a quiet, peaceful, dust free woodworking experience. Attain a more fulfilling, better quality of craftsmanship. Improve your hand to eye coordination and gain tactile feedback. I delve into how my furniture pieces are created using hand tools. Find out why you should introduce hand tools to your woodworking. Embrace a quieter form of woodworking. 184 pages (eBook, Print).
(eBook) $15

  • $40

Social Media Marketing for Woodworkers

  • Course
  • 17 Lessons
  • Includes 1 additional product

Do you find social media overwhelming? Norman Pirollo, successful woodworking business owner, guides you through using social media to market your woodworking business. Fast track your knowledge of social media for woodworking and furniture making. Norman provides the expertise to leverage social media to funnel sales through your web site. Start Your Own Woodworking Business (eBook, 130 pgs., $15) included.
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