Knotty Beauty!

ByBruce Sharp March 6, 2021August 29, 2021

Radiata pine attracts many complaints. Its knots, in particular, face cruel criticism, irrational radial prejudice!

This is an exercise in emphasising the beauty of the knot!

Disability work | Woodwork

Candle Sticks
ByBruce Sharp February 18, 2016August 21, 2021

Candle Sticks These candle sticks are my response to a gig at a conference for intellectually disabled people, Having a Say.Our activity was to involve ten attendees and their helpers. There were no requests for my work to follow any themes. Attendees could be dexterous, or not. Helpers may be anything from ex-tradesmen to multi-thumbed…

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Recycling | Woodwork | workshop

Recycled Wheelchair
ByBruce Sharp December 13, 2019August 25, 2021

It has been a long absence from blogging. To explain would take a box of tissues and a patient listener. …suffice to say, I lost my workshop, but am now close to finding it again. A workbench on castors suffers from lack of mobility when small diameter wheels bump into chunks of stuff on the…

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Thoughts | Woodwork

The Racing Car Won!
ByBruce Sharp October 4, 2016August 22, 2021

Decisions of Children A retailer wanted a morning’s activity with children.Making children happy isn’t difficult; they love doing cool stuff. When given a choice of projects they apply assumptions passed on by their parents. It is fun to present them with a boy’s cliché, a girl’s cliché and a gender non specific alternative. They were presented…

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Disability work | Toys | Woodwork

Without a Workshop
ByBruce Sharp May 5, 2018August 23, 2021

Work with my disabled friends depends heavily on efficient batch production. For reasons not worth recounting my workshop is out of action for about a year. So, work with my friends has stalled, horribly! To maintain our hands together relationship I need to invent stuff that requires very little wood machining. Here are two pieces…

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Woodwork

Kid’s Chair
ByBruce Sharp July 3, 2022

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Disability work | Toys | Woodwork

Teaching is Sharing is Teaching
ByBruce Sharp July 14, 2015August 21, 2021

This blog is the work of a retired woodwork teacher, me. A wonderful career of making cool things with kids has loaded my head with lots of stuff to make and share. Lessons are an Act of Sharing My inventive/creative work continues through opportunities to share what I enjoy. There are customers at a wood tools shop where I work part time….

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