WoodSkills/Restoring Hand Tools

  • $30

Restoring Hand Tools

  • Course
  • 77 Lessons
  • Includes 1 additional product

All modules included. Learn how to restore woodworking hand tools and bring old tools back to life. You are guided through the restoration of vintage hand tools from beginning to end to function again. Each step detailed with techniques to preserve patina & history of the tool. Extensive sharpening instruction provided. Techniques & tips provided for each tool restore.

Includes 1 additional product

Includes

  • Detailed video sequences of individual tool restores

  • Over 14 hours of detailed, comprehensive video instruction. Follow how I restore vintage woodworking hand tools. Tips & techniques are provided throughout the tool restore processes.

  • New hand tool restores are added to this course as vintage tools are acquired

  • Includes Start Woodworking (eBook)

START WOODWORKING

$15 eBook included with purchase of this course, Discover the tools and skills you need to start woodworking.

What you will learn

  • How to determine the necessary repairs of an old hand tool

  • How to correctly disassemble an old hand tool

  • Learn to clean and nourish the wood body and wood components of an old hand tool

  • How to restore a metal-bodied hand plane and remove rust and tarnish

  • How to clean metal components (brass & steel) of a vintage hand tool

  • How to maintain the patina & history of a vintage hand tool

  • How to recreate worn or damaged wood components of an old hand tool

  • Learn how to sharpen and hone different styles of irons used in vintage hand tools

  • How to properly apply finish to a wood-bodied vintage hand tool

  • Learn how to setup and properly use the vintage hand tool after repair and restore

  • Acquire tips & techniques to tackle any old tool repair and restore

  • Gain the confidence to tackle any old tool restore

  • $79

12 Course Bundle $79 ($500 value)

  • Bundle
  • 12 Products

All 12 online woodworking courses included in this discounted bundle! Pay a one-time price of $79 to gain unlimited access to 12 online courses. Over $500 value. Learn how to become a woodworker. Improve and develop new woodworking skills. Find out how to use woodworking tools. Gain a comprehensive woodworking education. Discover how to design and build your own furniture. How to start a woodworking business.

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)