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Yoav S. Liberman is a studio furniture artist, an architect and an inventor. His work combines the old and new, using found objects and discarded wood as sources of inspiration for the pieces that he builds.

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Hope-chest from reclaimed wood - part 2: final sketch and work begins.
by Yoav S. Liberman Sunday, May 13, 2012
The last version of the hope-chest was the one that both my clients and I loved the most. It called for a frame and panel construction and a lid that once used to be part of a piano. We decided to aim towards this look and agreed on a few features: The...
Hope-chest from reclaimed wood - part 1: Sketches
by Yoav S. Liberman Sunday, April 29, 2012
Hope-chests are wonderfully versatile pieces of furniture. They provides storage and a place to sit at the same time. Because they were traditionally given as wedding gifts, they are surrounded with an aura of romance, nostalgia, and a promising future...
Restoring a jeweler's saw
by Yoav S. Liberman Monday, April 16, 2012
Fellow woodworkers, did you know that a jeweler's saw (fret saw) is not just for jewelers? This revelation was brought to me two or three years ago after I saw how Rob Cosman used a Jeweler's saw to cut dovetails. Intuitively, we tend to think...
ebay: a great source for inexpensive, yet fantastic tools – part 2
by Yoav S. Liberman Sunday, April 15, 2012
I love good old tools, ones that were made from fine materials such as brass, steel, and hard woods. As I mentioned in my last posting, these tools can endure much abuse, several owners, and can still be brought back to their original glamour and functionality...
ebay: a great source for inexpensive, yet fantastic tools – part 1
by Yoav S. Liberman Saturday, March 31, 2012
Most of my woodworking tools were bought on ebay. Over the years I learned how to identify the good tools from the mediocre or even the bad ones. I gained experience in spotting items that might look rusty and poor on first glance, but turn out to be...
A mallet project – part 3
by Yoav S. Liberman Thursday, March 29, 2012
In this posting I will describe how my students shaped the mallet's head. If you recall my last blog post, I described how we clamped the head's parts around the tapered handle. I designed the cut-list so that the head blank will intentionally...
A mallet project – part 2
by Yoav S. Liberman Saturday, March 24, 2012
In my first blog entry I showed the revised plans for the oak mallet that my students are building. Here, I will show the process of cutting and gluing the parts together. Once the parts have been cut we turn to form the handle. We start by shortening...
A mallet project – part 1
by Yoav S. Liberman Sunday, March 18, 2012
The first project I give to my students in the Intro to Woodworking class at 3rdWard NYC is building a wooden mallet. The mallet is perfect because it requires less then two meetings to make and it covers fundamental techniques and theories of woodworking...
A tribute to the teacher who introduced me to woodturning
by Yoav S. Liberman Saturday, February 25, 2012
In 2001 I began a two year residency program in furniture making at the Worcester Center for Crafts in Massachusetts. While there I decided to take on a domain of woodworking I had zero experience with: Woodturning. Andy Motter was my teacher. He was...
Restoring a compass – part 3: Tapping and completing the restoration
by Yoav S. Liberman Monday, February 20, 2012
In my previous blog entry I showed how I threaded the stem to effectively create a bolt. The next step was to find (or make) a nut that would secure the old compass knob in its place. I was sure that somewhere in my collection I had an acorn nut that...
Restoring a compass – part 2: Threading the new stem
by Yoav S. Liberman Friday, February 17, 2012
Threading is the mechanical operation of removing material from the exterior of a cylindrical shape in order to create a helical thread. The newly formed stem at the base of my old compass's knob had to be threaded because I intended to install and...
Restoring a compass – part 1: What went wrong and how I decided to repair it.
by Yoav S. Liberman Thursday, February 16, 2012
I love to use pencil compasses in my woodshop. Unlike regular drafting compasses, which are fitted with fragile lead that tends to break easily, pencil compass are just very easy to work with. You can fit the pencil with ease, sharpen it with no problem...
Tabletop stool – part 3
by Yoav S. Liberman Thursday, February 2, 2012
After checking that all the joints fit, I began to work on the details. I tapered the legs, I chamfered the top's edges, I band sawed arches on each leg and, lastly, I rounded the ends of the rail and curved two steps on each side of the curved end...
Tabletop stool – part 2
by Yoav S. Liberman Monday, January 30, 2012
Two days after I emailed out the drawings I called my client to decide on his favorite design. The one he liked best was the "Arts & Crafts" option. We decided on reclaimed oak as the primary wood for the top and legs; I said that I will...

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