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Intro to Hand Tools (Seminar)

Intro to Hand Tools

I will be participating in the Hamilton Woodworking Show this October. My sessions will revolve around hand tools. The s...

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Furniture Society (Featured Member)

As a longtime member of the Furniture Society, I am honored to the featured member this week. The furniture Society revo...

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Norman Pirollo
Jun 28

Furniture Design (Concepts)

A large component of furniture design is in the conceptual stage. This is where furniture concepts and renderings are ha...

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Norman Pirollo
May 1

New Course on Social Media Marketing for Woodworkers!

I recently created and released a new course. With the popularity of social media, I felt it is necessary to create a co...

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Norman Pirollo
Dec 24, 2022

Restored 1850's Hand Planes

Over the past two weeks I have restored several hand planes. These are plow planes to be exact. Plow planes are used to ...
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Norman Pirollo
Aug 24, 2022

Quiet Woodworking: In An Unquiet World

This summer has been busy. I have recently completed a new book. The premise of the book is the dichotomy of hand tool w...
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Norman Pirollo
Jul 21, 2022

Peg Boards

Reconfigured a large peg board in my studio recently. The space to the right was needed for a new saw till so I split th...
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Norman Pirollo
Jun 7, 2022

Shooting Board

After using my shooting boards for several years, I wanted to improve on how they perform. Over time I set them up with ...
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Norman Pirollo
May 27, 2022

Saw Till

I recently completed this wall-mounted saw till and small saw holder. The larger saw till stores my handsaw collection i...
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Norman Pirollo
Mar 19, 2022

Planing Board

If your workbench surface is imperfect and not quite flat, a planing board can be the solution. The planing board plugs ...
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