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The "Y" shaped slab, cut from the fork between two main branches that split from the trunk, is a wonderful piece or wood. Its grain orientation is very attractive and...

I confess: this project is not a fine woodworking piece… not at all! However, it is one of the first projects I crafted as a young adult. That said, I...

After masking-taping some protective paper on the hood's exterior I took it to the sand blasting booth/chamber. I sand blasted the hood's interior, then I cleaned it form sand particles...

I have been absent from my blog for the last couple of weeks now.. I had to take down the show at Purchase College, relocate my on-campus studio and apartment,...

In the first post on the this strange, but intriguing, wedding gift, I talked about the original legs and the found objects that I spotted in Purchase's wood department. In...

A few years ago my friend Robin gave me three wood & cast iron legs which used to be part of her grandmother's piano stool. Robin said to me: "Yoav,...

Can Facebook be a design tool?…. well it depends…  Recently I needed to decide on the most interesting board orientation for the table top I was building in Purchase College....

Among my students last semester was one of the worlds best turners, and arguably the best turning teacher I have met. During this term Andy was more my teacher than...

While at Purchase College I taught a class labeled "Applied Design". What we did was to go through a ratcheted-up four assignment curricular that culminated in designing and building a...

My show's opening is tomorrow at Purchase College's Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery. Eleven pieces altogether, five of them are new, from the last four months on campus; two are...

Carving the chair's crest rail was fun, and I think that adding the scroll detail improved it. The next step was to glue the parts together. In some cases, where...

Once I finished stripping the old finish, I started planning the necessary repairs and alterations. I had to make two new spindles.  To compensate for the missing ones, I had...