Are you aspiring to design and make furniture. The 5+ hour (20 lesson) (updated 2024) information-packed class will teach you the furniture design + making process. Delivered by furniture designer + maker Norman Pirollo. Topics range from a detailed introduction, developing a design from a concept, workshop setup, hand tools in your workshop, machines, precision with tools, joinery, bench accessories, jigs, templates, veneering, CAD. The class includes an (eBook, 236 pgs.) with additional 4.5 hrs. of live classes and Display Cabinet Build for a total of 10 hrs.
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Master your furniture design + making skills through this Master Class. The class is based on skills developed and used in a functioning furniture making studio. Learn from an expert in woodworking. Norman Pirollo has been woodworking for 2+ decades, his work published in magazines and books, and he has established four woodworking businesses. From Hi-Tech to Lo-Tech: A Woodworker's Journey chronicles his exciting journey into woodworking. Norman recently authored Woodworking: From Design To Making and Quiet Woodworking: In An Unquiet World books.
The Woodworking: Making To Design master class features these topics over 21 video lessons:
Introduction
Furniture Design 1-3
Selecting Wood
The Workshop
Machines
Hand Tools
Bench Accessories
Jigs
Templates
Joinery
Precision Pt. 1-4
Veneering Pt. 1-2
Technology (CAD)
Live Classes (4.5 hrs)
Cabinet Build (.5 hr)
Conclusion
Completion Certificate
WOODWORKING: FROM DESIGN TO MAKING
$15 eBook, 236 pgs. included with class
Understand the furniture design process
Setting up a workshop, tools, equipment, hand tools
Learn to select the best materials and joinery to use
Increase speed with bench accessories, jigs, templates
Introduce precision in your woodworking
Learn about technology in woodworking
Discover how veneering can improve your designs
(2) sets of Live classes on Design To Making
Learn the process of designing and creating your own furniture. Discover how workshop aids will speed your furniture making. Learn joinery, machines, hand tools and veneering. Dive into precision woodworking. Find out how to design your furniture and not simply work from plans. Learn to develop processes to create multiples or furniture in batches using templates and other techniques.
MEET THE INSTRUCTOR
Norman Pirollo began his furniture-making career by following a Cabinetmaking program at a local college. This education led to the launch of a successful small business creating high end jewelry boxes. Later, Norman sought a greater challenge and pursued his ambition of becoming a furniture maker. Norman then attended a furniture making school based on James Krenov philosophy and teachings. This education led to designing and creating furniture through Refined Edge Design. A woodworking educator role then followed. Today, Norman enjoys designing and making furniture as well as teaching woodworking techniques and skills.
Norman has written several books on the woodworking and furniture making topic as well as writing articles for magazines such as Fine Woodworking. His book, WOODWORKING: FROM DESIGN TO MAKING describes the unique furniture design and making process applied in his furniture studio. A recent book, Quiet Woodworking: In An Unquiet World, delves into Norman's embrace of hand tools in his woodworking and furniture making.
Norman has written several books and has been featured in publications over the years.
The Furniture Society (Art of Balance, Apr 2024)
Carleton Univ. Industrial Design (Guest Lecturer)
Quiet Woodworking (New Art Press)
Hand Tool Woodworking (New Art Press)
Start Woodworking (New Art Press)
Craftisian Interview (Norman Pirollo)
HackSpace Mag. - Make With Wood April 2020
Woodworking: From Design To Making (New Art Press)
Woodworking With Hand Tools 2018 (Fine Woodworking)
The Wood Artist: Creating Art Through Wood (New Art Press)
From Hi-Tech to Lo-Tech: A Woodworker's Journey (NAP)
Start Your Own Woodworking Business (NAP)
Rooted: Contemporary Studio Furniture (Schiffer Publishing)
Canadian Woodworking Mag. Jan. 2015
Our Homes magazine Fall 2014
NICHE Magazine Winter 2013
FWW Magazine - 4 Bench Jigs for Handplanes
FWW Magazine - Essential Shopmade Jigs
Woodwork magazine (2008)
Wood Art Today 2 (Schiffer Books)
500 Cabinets ( Lark Books)
Studio Furniture: Today's Leading Woodworkers
Canadian Interiors Design Source Guide
Ottawa Life magazine (Profile,work) 2012
Panoram Italia magazine
Our Homes magazine (2011)
Craft Journal (2009)
Woodworker's Journal (2006)
