Tom Fidgen is an author, musician, designer/maker living in Toronto, Ontario with his wife and two children. Born in 1971, on Cape Breton Island, in Nova Scotia, Canada, Tom likes to spend his summers on the East Coast where he is close to the ocean. Tom is the owner/instructor at the Unplugged Woodshop - Toronto. A "hand-tools only" school, store, maker space and studio in downtown Toronto, Canada. He is a contributing author to Woodworking Magazine and has written for Fine Woodworking, Popular Woodworking, Canadian Woodworking, Furniture & Cabinetmaking, British Woodworking Magazine and the Lee Valley Tools newsletter. Tom enjoys teaching in his own woodworking school in Toronto, as well as Internationally. When not at the workbench, Tom also writes and records music. Author of the book Made by Hand - Furniture Projects from the Unplugged Woodshop (2009) and The Unplugged Woodshop - Hand Crafted Projects for the Home and Workshop (2013). http://www.theunpluggedwoodshop.com
