Woodworking: Design To Making

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Learn to design and create your own furniture designs. Apply time-proven concepts to furniture design. Learn to select the best woods for a furniture piece. Find out which machines and hand tools are best suited to creating furniture. Incorporate efficiency and repeatability to your woodworking and furniture making. Introduce precision to your woodworking. Discover the advantages and benefits of veneers.

Topics covered in 21 part (5 hr.) Woodworking: Design To Making class:

Introduction
Furniture Design Pt. 1-3
Selecting Wood
The Workshop
Machines
Hand Tools
Bench Accessories
Jigs
Templates
Joinery
Precision Pt. 1-4
Veneering Pt. 1-2
Technology (CAD)
Conclusion

WOODWORKING: FROM DESIGN TO MAKING

$15 eBook (236 pgs.) included with class

Decades of furniture making combine with furniture design in this new, refreshing take on woodworking. In addition to detailed furniture making techniques, the book delves into furniture design. Skills and processes to advance you as a woodworker and furniture maker are described. The book is also a window on the life of a furniture maker. Although the focus of the book is hand tools, use of machines in the initial phase of a furniture build is discussed. Time-saving precision hand tool procedures are featured. The book has (4) sections. Each section contains articles for a woodworker or furniture maker to embrace as they evolve. Projects include dovetails, board jack build, Moxon vise build, knife hinge install

WOODWORKING: DESIGN TO MAKING (Livestream, 2.5 hr.)

Additional 2.5 hr. recorded livestream session included with class. The session presents the same topics as in the Master Class but with a different take. This reinforces the knowledge you gained in the lessons above. You will have a very good understanding of the process of designing and creating furniture.

Norman has authored several books (New Art Press) and featured in publications.

Quiet Woodworking: In An Unquiet World (New Art Press)
Hand Tool Woodworking (New Art Press)
Start Woodworking (New Art Press)
Craftisian Interview (Norman Pirollo)
HackSpace Magazine – 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 (New Art Press)
Start Your Own Woodworking Business (New Art Press)
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)

Lesson 1

Introduction
Lesson 2

Design Pt. 1
Lesson 3

Design Pt. 2
Lesson 4

Design Pt. 3
Lesson 5

Selecting Wood
Lesson 6

Workshop
Lesson 7

Machines
Lesson 8

Workbench Accessories
Lesson 9

Hand Tools
Lesson 10

Templates
Lesson 11

Jigs
Lesson 12

Joinery
Lesson 13

Precision Pt. 1
Lesson 14

Precision Pt. 2
Lesson 15

Precision Pt. 3
Lesson 16

Precision Pt. 4
Lesson 17

Veneering Pt. 1
Lesson 18

Veneering Pt. 2
Lesson 19

Technology
Lesson 20

Conclusion
Lesson 21

WOODWORKING: FROM DESIGN TO MAKING (eBook, 236 pgs.)
Lesson 22

Woodworking: Design To Making (recorded livestream, 2.5 hr.)