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ByBruce Sharp March 26, 2021August 26, 2021

Disability work | Toys | Woodwork

Pencil Case
ByBruce Sharp February 21, 2017August 21, 2021

Three Variations of the Same Theme There is a tradition in Melbourne secondary schools that has twelve year olds in their first woodwork lessons making a pencil case. Regardless of how ordinary the results may be, these things end up with magnificent decoration. During boring lessons they are canvas for expression of everything from undying…

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Creative efforts | exploring a skill | furniture | Recycling | Woodwork

Old Saw Blade Side Table
ByBruce Sharp May 31, 2021August 25, 2021

Junk is stuff you have no use for. Here is a blade that was destined for land fill, so was the timber. Junk can be reclassified! The teeth have been ground smooth and the weight of the blade gives the table a nice stability. In making this there was a nice exploration of cutting compound…

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exploring a skill | Woodwork | workshop

DIY Simple Chisel Plane
ByBruce Sharp May 1, 2017August 21, 2021

Wooden hand plane aficionados (ambiguity intentional) make much of the fact that they can use words like “frog, cutting angle and throat” with confidence. That confidence is proof that they must be experts! If you add complexity to the activity then great reverence must be assumed. Much is made of achieving chisel cuts at particular…

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furniture | Recycling | Woodwork

Recycled Glass Lazy Woodwork
ByBruce Sharp April 25, 2017August 21, 2021

Recycled Glass Table The major inspiration behind this table is ownership of a circle of glass that is too good to throw away. In the 1980’s it was part of a fashionable little iron framed thingy. A clever wood turner made three legs with large balls on top and slots cut to enable glass to…

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Disability work | Toys | Woodwork

Back Scratcher
ByBruce Sharp January 20, 2020August 30, 2021

Here are the parts of our back scratcher. As with most of our work, fixing is achieved by belting 6mm dowels into 5.5mm holes. The handle is well suited to batch production but the body of the scratchy bit took a while. Each had to be individually marked out. It was the least efficient part…

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Thoughts | Woodwork

Teaching is Still Sharing
ByBruce Sharp November 13, 2016August 30, 2021

New Experiences Never Stop Happening in the Classroom For teaching to happen, a teacher must believe that they have something to offer. But no amount of self belief can surmount a brick wall cemented with the rubble of self doubt. Self doubt compacted under decades of hammering. Regular children in regular schools are frequently open…

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