yoav_liberman - All Comments

re: Planing teak wood is no cake walk

michael.fisher5 — Sat, 11 May 2013 14:56:00 GMT

As a woodworker attempting to improve his planing skills, I enjoyed this article. As a proofreader, I encourage you to check the text you post. Grammatical perfection will detract from the storyteller's narrative, but the mind locks up on obvious errors like paragraph one, line eight - be address by versus be addressed by. Finding and fixing these errors is good customer service.

I loved the Titanic simile.

re: Chronicle of Consumption

Yoav S. Liberman — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:36:06 GMT

Phillip,

It wasn't easy to document the demise of this beautiful curved drawer front oak dresser. I decided to do it so that I could have an effective (if not shocking) instrument to hammer down my conviction that we must do more to preserve and honor good old furniture like this. I have been showing this video to different crowds including college students, craft people, and the general public and each time I do so people get saddened and tell me that this should not have happened. I hope that by showing this video more and more people will make an effort to stop and think before they put out for trash nice objects like this one. I also hope that perhaps some city officials will come up with " Adopt a furniture" initiatives. Letting people bring pieces to to designated "Pounds," leave them there and allow fellow citizens to come by and pick up the unwanted. In some parts of the country I have seen "Take it or leave it" places near or inside the dump or the recycling facility.

Yoav

re: Chronicle of Consumption

phillip — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:15:19 GMT

Thanks for documenting/sharing this; before I'd watched the video (spoiler alert!) I was sure there'd have been a happy ending. It's a bit sad to watch!

re: Me at work: A 57 second video

Randy Johnson — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 21:37:06 GMT

Nice video nice project!

re: My mortising chisel handle receives its first review – part 1: Sketching an idea

knothead — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 21:33:28 GMT

I'm all ears for this one!!!

re: Gil Arad's Japanese inspired screen

MagGeorge — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 16:41:30 GMT

The bamboo branch gives it an oriental feel. Nicely done.

re: Witchcraft in Toronto: making a magic wand for Halloween

Louis Toth — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:19:36 GMT

Both kids look amazing! It reflects as like harry potter's fever. <a href="http://remodelproducts.com">Kitchen Cabinet Design</a>

re: High tech wood – A visit to the Maker Faire part three

Yoav S. Liberman — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:50:10 GMT

I totally agree with what you wrote Dean. I recently visited my friends in upstate New York. They grow bamboo in their garden and it flourishes there. Their plants grow year round, even under heavy snow. Recently I heard the unbelievable: American factory in the south make and sells chopsticks to China. So if we can do this we surly can commercially grow bamboo here in the USA and make wonderful green furniture and other house hold objects from it.

re: High tech wood – A visit to the Maker Faire part three

Dezri Dean — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:06:52 GMT

As a "green" product I can hardly wait for it to be grown here locally so that I can feel good about using it and consider it to be a truley green material, rather than having to ship it to the US!

re: Belmont Hill School Summer Program and Amanda's clock

Ziggarelli — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:48:48 GMT

The Belmont School sounds like an amazing program, it is great to see such opportunities for kids to get into these skills!

re: Belmont Hill School Summer Program – Students' work part 2: William the Conqueror

Ziggarelli — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:44:18 GMT

Wow what a clever project. It's great for kids to see possibilities in every day materials. This is a great exercise in design (and material constrained problem solving!.)