Discover how hand tools create a quiet, peaceful, dust free woodworking experience. Read about the dichotomy of hand tool woodworking in a modern world. 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.
Our lives are rapidly being overtaken with technology that performs the labor-intensive tasks we were once accustomed to. Machines introduce an inordinate amount of noise and dust into our lives. This is the consequence of introducing expediency into woodworking. Our bodies were designed to work and move. Hand to eye coordination is a trait developed over thousands of years. We are moving away from this through technology. We need to strike a balance in our lives between progress and maintaining tradition. This can occur through woodworking with hand tools. There is much to be said of how woodworking was performed in earlier times solely using hand tools with an emphasis on manual tasks. 184 pages (eBook, Softcover, 8.5 X 11 in.).
Norman has written several books and has been featured in publications over the years.
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) Print version available through Amazon (Softcover, 184 pgs., 8.5 X 11 in., $35)
L. Chenard (Canada) says "I have read the book.. Quiet Woodworking: In An Unquiet World. and it is truly inspirational. As a novice woodworker myself, I can relate to the importance of a quiet environment to be creative. I apply this philosophy in my jewelry making."
Devin T(USA) says"An excellent read"
Quiet Woodworking: In An Unquiet World
A short video describing book and its origins. A compelling case is made to introduce hand tools in your furniture making and woodworking. The book enlightens you to merits of hand tool woodworking and a resulting quiet, dust-free environment.
