Master your woodworking and furniture making skills (updated 2024). The course is based on skills developed in a functioning furniture making studio. Learn from Norman Pirollo, an expert in woodworking. Discover woodworking using a structured approach. This ensures an understanding of fundamentals before delving into advanced woodworking topics. The course follows the curriculum used in woodworking schools. This will develop you as a woodworker for years to come. Invest the time to correctly learn woodworking from the ground up!
Norman Pirollo, woodworker for 2+ decades, has been published in magazines and books and launched woodworking businesses. Norman authored From Hi-Tech to Lo-Tech: A Woodworker's Journey, a book chronicling his exciting journey into woodworking. Hi latest books, Woodworking: From Design To Making and Quiet Woodworking: In An Unquiet World books.
The woodworking course features the following topics in 55 video lessons:
select and prepare wood
design and set up a workshop
up to date workshop safety
video lectures on hand tools, chisels, hand planes
video lectures on machinery, power tools
learn different woodworking joints and how to create them
create handmade dovetails, mortise with hand tools
selecting different finishes for your project
intro to veneering basics
intro to the shooting board
intro to bench hooks
intro to Moxon Vise
workbench sequences
includes bench hook project
includes Start Woodworking (eBook)
Completion Certificate
START WOODWORKING
$15 eBook included with purchase of course
How to set up a workshop for woodworking
How to select and prepare wood for a woodworking project
How to select and use hand tools
How to use power tools and woodworking machines
Learn joinery and where to use
How to select and apply finishes
Learn veneering basics
Reinforce knowledge through quiz after each module
Build a first project (bench hook)
"All woodworkers, novice or professional, will benefit from this course"
"It helped me improve my woodworking skills considerably"
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)
