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At the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan, world-renowned woodworker Tak Yoshino creates custom, handcrafted chairs that promote proper and healthy posture through the practice of Zen. As a result of his [...]

This live edge branch bowl is a quick and easy project that can also be a great introduction to green woodworking. Yoav Liberman shows you the steps.

Yoav Liberman and his student Lisa put the finishing touches on a unique live edge desk.

Working with reclaimed wood often requires some creative problem-solving. Here's a clever strategy Yoav Liberman and his student Lisa used when making this live edge desk.

Slab, or live-edge furniture is all the rage, and I like it! If you think wood is one of the most amazing things ever created, then how can you not like a piece of furniture that retains so much [...]

See the completed burl slab coffee table, plus learn how Yoav and his student Helder ensured this highly irregular table stays level.

Yoav Liberman and his student Helder design and construct legs for a unique, live edge coffee table.

Yoav Liberman and his student Helder design and construct a coffee table out of a particularly intriguing burl slab.

Yoav and his student David demonstrate crafting an elegant antiprism design on the legs of this formerly boxy bench.

Last July I returned to Peters Valley School of Crafts to teach a six day-long class in live edge furniture making. Live edge, aka Natural Edge, is one of my most beloved wood mediums.

One of the unique pieces built during my weekend workshop at Snow Farm was a live edge coffee table. Lisa’s “Cape Cod coffee table” began as a 1” cross cut of a cherry tree that showed an [...]

Ben was one of the six students who took my live-edge Columbus day weekend class at Snow Farm. A newcomer into woodworking, motivated and eager to learn, he asked me to help him design and build [...]