Journal
Workshop Notes
Articles on wood, CNC, furniture, and gear
- Workshop notes
Behind the scenes — how a custom furniture piece is made
Eight stages from a sketch on a napkin to a finished piece in your home — and why each one earns the time it takes.
8 min read - CNC
CNC vs handmade woodworking — what gives better results?
A workshop that uses both honestly — where CNC earns precision, where hand-finishing earns its place, and why combining the two beats either alone.
8 min read - Materials & Wood
How to choose wood for custom furniture
A workshop view on solid wood vs plywood vs MDF, which species age beautifully, and how Mediterranean humidity changes what you should pick.
9 min read - Furniture Care
How to maintain solid wood furniture so it lasts decades
Humidity, sunlight, cleaning mistakes, when to re-oil, what to do about scratches — the workshop's honest care guide for the next twenty years.
9 min read - Custom Kitchens
Modern kitchen cabinet trends in 2026
Handleless fronts, hidden lighting, natural wood textures — what's actually being built in Tel Aviv kitchens right now, with notes on what's worth the cost.
9 min read - Interior Inspiration
Why custom furniture is more sustainable than mass production
Repairability, local production, better materials, longer lifespan — the unglamorous case for buying one good piece every twenty years instead of three flat-packed pieces every five.
8 min read - Furniture
Choosing wood for a custom kitchen
Oak, walnut, or ash? A workshop perspective on picking the right wood species for a kitchen that has to live with steam, splashes, and twenty years of daily use.
6 min read - CNC
CNC tolerances explained
What "±0.1 mm" actually means on a 3-axis CNC, how realistic that is across wood, aluminium, and plastic, and when you really need a 5-axis shop.
7 min read - Spearguns
Speargun stock shapes — Mediterranean, teak, and iroko
How stock geometry shapes tracking, why teak is overrated, and the small weighting tweaks that turn an OK gun into a precise one.
6 min read
