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Torah Case- Sephardic Style

Building a Sephardi Torah Case from solid wood is not a simple process and it has become harder to find artists like us who specialize in this type of work. By combining traditional methods with the m ...

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Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue

Location: Seattle, WA, USA Rabbi: Olivier BenHaim When the Bet Alef Congregation came to Israel on tour, they were honored to come by The Studios for an extensive tour, browse our showroom, ...

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Congregation Kol Ami

Summer 2012 Vancouver, WA, USA A Ner Tamid has been commissioned by the Congregation Kol Ami community to be hung from the high ceiling in their beautiful new building. This Ner Tamid will be ...

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Beth Israel

Installed Spring/Summer 2012 New Orleans, USA Bet Israel is one of the oldest synagogues in the southern United States. Destroyed in the wake of floods from Hurricane Katrina, Custom ...

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Yeshivas Mishkan HaTorah

Spring 2012 Toronto, Canada This exciting project has taken about three months to produce in our studios in Israel. The more than 3 tons of woodwork, metal, and glass include inter ...

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See all of our Wood, Glass and Metal Craftmanship

Glass Blowing into original Wood Moulds
We create many original wooden moulds used for glass blowing. This is an exciting technique involving wet wood and hot glass. The moulds are often finished and used in the final product.

Glass blowing in the Hot Shop
Glass blowing in the hot shop is like a dance that involves correography between the material, the artist, his help, and gravity. Watch videos of some exciting techniques!

Handles, Menorah Fittings, and inlays
Learn how we create our own glass handles and knobs, oil and candle fittings, as well as inlays. All are produced with borosilicate glass on a gas/oxygen torch in the warm glass studio. We use many of these products in our furnishings and offer them for sale individually or in quantity.

Joinery
At Custom Carving we work only with solid wood. With proper attention to joinery a solid wood furnishing will last for generations. We use dovetail joinery on all boxes, a finger joint in all our mortise and tennon joints, and employ strong creative joints for portable furniture.

Carving
Carving is one of the most unique details of Gabriel's work. Learn about the straight and curved blade techniques he learned from totem pole carving and has adapted to all aspects of his work.

Local Woods
Many of our products are made from local Israeli woods, such as Olive wood and cypress, carefully harvested and cured by the Custom Carving team.

Carpentry
Learn about some of the carpentry skills necessary to work with solid wood, including cleaning and straightening raw material, gluing wide boards, sanding and applying a durable laquer finish.

Lathe
The lathe allows us to work with wood in the round. Through centrifical force we are able to work with wood in a similar way that we work with glass in the hot shop.

Hardware
By using only the highest quality hardware or building it ourselves in the studio we assure each finished piece looks uniform and will continue to be treasured for generations.