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In this part I will talk about how we chose a new  finish for Sharon's piece. His piece, an old sideboard whose finish was in reasonable shape, needed a rejuvenating agent [...]

  Once we recognized the structural problems, we knew what we should do:  put glue in the loose joints and pull the parts back together. The question was how to do it in...

Sharon is a reader of my Hebrew woodworking blog (http://woodworkinginisrael.blogspot.com/). A month ago he decided to restore a nice looking cabinet that he owned. He wanted [...]

The design that we chose mimicked a shelf that the student's grandfather has.  My student wanted to reproduce this family treasure and give it as a gift to [...]

Bamboo is one of the best renewable plant-base composites I can think of.  I call it renewable because it can grow, be harvested, germinate, and grow again and [...]

Except for the impressive army of the 3D printers that I saw there, I encountered a few other fascinating machines. One of them is instrumental in the process of fabricating...

This weekend I entered one of the more fascinating and cheerfuller parlors of Americana I  have ever visited. It was an event that featured the talents, achievements and entrepreneurship of...

I want to show a few more good projects made by the students in my summer class. Today I will talk about Anthony's knives. Unlike my first year at Belmont...

This video is a short 4 minute overarching introduction to George Nakashima's furniture and the contemporary furniture makers that have been inspired by his "live edge" design. [...]

Before heading to New York City yesterday night I stopped at the Target store in Somerville, Mass to get a few gallons of water, just in case Hurricane Irene will...

By now you all figured out that clocks are a hit among my young students and, from my experience, most clocks builders are girls. Perhaps the thing that makes a...

Alexi's fourth baluster was, to my taste, the best one. He decided to carve an oval foot and then spiral it up with a bead. Once he finished working on...