Lots of Pooh!!!

ByBruce Sharp March 26, 2021August 26, 2021

Creative efforts | furniture | Recycling | Woodwork

More Recycled Glass
ByBruce Sharp February 17, 2021August 30, 2021

These little tables are remarkably strong. Birch ply give access to lovely graphic lines. It is a happy design exercise to make a toggle that matches the legs. I like the birch ply, but should have avoided the circle of the body!

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Toys | Woodwork

Serving Tray
ByBruce Sharp August 11, 2015August 21, 2021

Good Ideas Don’t Need to be Complicated Serving Tray For an object to complete the journey from initial musings to touchable reality requires a certain fidelity, on my part, to the original idea. Discouragements take the form of excessively complex prototypes. It is difficult to let simplicity rule. The journey of the serving tray couldn’t be shorter….

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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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Creative efforts | Disability work | Woodwork

Jewellery Box
ByBruce Sharp August 4, 2015August 21, 2021

For Whom Do We Make? The stuff we make involves many interested parties. There are: the makers, staff who help, managers of the centre, recipients of the objects, et al. Given the positive power of enthusiasm, it is good to spread that good feeling as widely as possible. When the makers make more than they need,…

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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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Disability work | Woodwork

Sam’s Baskets Finished
ByBruce Sharp March 21, 2017August 21, 2021

Everything my friends make begins with best laid plans. But they do go astray! In this case there were aspects of the construction process that were so difficult that I needed to invent some extra help. Here is little bench clamp that holds up the basket end. At the beginning stage the unsupported end won’t…

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