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    Kid’s Chair

    ByBruce Sharp July 3, 2022

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  • Grille
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    Grille

    ByBruce Sharp July 3, 2022July 3, 2022

    After a few attempts to bend fine strips into curves, I gave up and resorted to the scroll saw.

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  • Pallet Wood Barrow
    exploring a skill | Recycling | workshop

    Pallet Wood Barrow

    ByBruce Sharp October 15, 2021October 15, 2021

    This project began as a means of cleaning out a pile of 60mm x 60mm pallet pine that was getting in the way. …and I had long wanted to try making a wooden wheel. Each segment was cut to 22.5 degrees and the joints were reinforced with 4mm plywood splines. Slots for the splines were…

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  • Jigsaw
    Creative efforts | exploring a skill | Recycling | Toys

    Jigsaw

    ByBruce Sharp October 5, 2021

    Radiata pine is omnipresent but is also a timber with a reputation. It generally has strings of adjectives attached to it where the first is, cheap. Here, a recycled piece, 300mm x 400mm, has been cut into a jigsaw. That was tedious, but more-so was the finishing. Each piece was scorched with a blow torch…

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  • Laced Box
    Creative efforts | Recycling

    Laced Box

    ByBruce Sharp October 1, 2021October 1, 2021

    My grandmother laced pieces of old greeting card together with her crochet hooks. Her arthritic hands never stopped achieving! This wooden approximation of her work is clumsy by comparison. But the act of weaving edges together relieves the complex geometry of joining compound angles.

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  • Blackbutt Scrap
    exploring a skill | furniture | Recycling

    Blackbutt Scrap

    ByBruce Sharp September 30, 2021October 1, 2021

    Sometimes a piece of wood is too good to throw away. Here is the end result of pushing a piece of blackbutt from one end of the wood rack to the other for about three years. It coincided with the acquisition of a long plug cutter. These tools can cut plugs over 100mm long, that…

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  • Not a Parf Dog in Sight
    Recycling | Woodwork | workshop

    Not a Parf Dog in Sight

    ByBruce Sharp August 29, 2021

    Small workbenches are a continuing theme.This bench is a commission.The brief prescribed 1000mm x 500mm with dog holes that are not obstructed by objects beneath them. For instance, it is not uncommon for a dog hole to be installed directly above the screw of a vice and long hold downs become useless. There was also…

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  • Landscape
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    Landscape

    ByBruce Sharp August 29, 2021August 29, 2021

    The wood speaks for itself!

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  • Pallet Wood
    furniture | Recycling | Woodwork

    Pallet Wood

    ByBruce Sharp August 22, 2021August 27, 2021

    Pallet wood has challenges.If patina tells a story, this is a saga of neglect.The milling process was rushed, the drying stage left twists and warps, and nails fixed the stigma of an abusive past with rusty stains.With such baggage, construction needed to compensate by accepting skewed realities. All timber in this table was rescued from dumping…

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  •  More Workbenches
    Recycling | Woodwork | workshop

     More Workbenches

    ByBruce Sharp May 31, 2021August 25, 2021

    Another rescued lathe stand. This steel construction makes a rigid scaffold on which to mount a work top. The surface is an oregon timber beam removed from a house during renovation. There are splits and twists, but to remove them would have lost 20mm in thickness and 70mm in width.  After judicious machining, the bench…

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