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The first tool that I used was a scrub plane. This is a Western style plane and it is intended to be pushed, however, I sometimes plane by pulling it...

For more than a decade I have been interested in combining metal office furniture (predominantly filing cabinets and metal hardware drawers) with wooden components to form new pieces. Often my...

Last time I showed how Mike had come up with a plan to build the wings from two components: the front part of the wing and the feathers. The feathers...

Mike's interest in birds of prey led him to think about how can he carve one, releasing its energy and grandeur out of a block of wood. He chose the...

Mike is a carver first, then a woodworker and furniture renovator. Sometimes he takes the liberty to change the appearances of objects that he restores, making the change the new...

I met Mike Shalit a few years ago in a craft gallery near Tel Aviv, Israel. Constructura Gallery displayed several of my cutting boards and Mike, who frequented this gallery...

The last stages of this fun job were to cut the plaque ellipse shape and install the plaque on the trunk. Notice that the middle letter ? received an exceptionally...

After I laid out the letters' design, I started to establish a middle creek line on each of the letter's parts. To cut this creek you can use a marking...

Last month I became an uncle. A sweet little baby was born to my brother and his wife….. and her name is ?? (Gal). Gal, or "wave" in Hebrew, received...

My friends' son, Canaan (A.K.A… Shibo) wants to build stuff. His mother, Noa, thought that woodworking would be a great medium for him to explore. Shibo is only four years...

After planing the legs' new facets (altogether eight new triangle facets on each leg) I milled three shallow mortises on the underside of the crotch.   Next I sanded and...

The first stage in designing the new table was to lay out the old legs underneath the crotch, support them with clamps and let them carry the crotch without any...