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

Sanding Wood is Fun!
ByBruce Sharp August 27, 2017August 23, 2021

I Broke a Promise… …but I also made a discovery. When I began doing wood projects among my disabled friends I made some promises to myself. The promises were a personal, but unwritten, statement of policy. I promise to: do work that is engaging because the thing we make is interesting, never to do all…

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Toys | Woodwork

Grand Kiddy Walker
ByBruce Sharp March 13, 2017August 30, 2021

Inspired by a Grand-daughter Rites of passage require Grandma and Grandpa to stay overnight and be responsible parents again. We were responsible for a wondrous darling born at just 25 weeks, but now 20 months old, crawling with a formula 1 ego and on the brink of walking. Revisiting parenthood for 24 hours was a…

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Disability work | Toys | Woodwork

Wooden Train
ByBruce Sharp May 15, 2016August 21, 2021

This project was perfect for batch production; the pieces are simple and can be cut in multiples. BUT, the coolest part of all is that when it was done we put our carriages together and created a train of inspiring proportions. We used our usual techniques of dowel hammered into holes that are 0.5mm too small….

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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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Disability work | Toys | Woodwork

Dominoes on the Floor
ByBruce Sharp October 25, 2020August 23, 2021

These oversized wooden blocks make a lovely plonking sound as they fall! It is all about fun.

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Recycling | Woodwork | workshop

Pallet Wood Bench
ByBruce Sharp October 15, 2020August 29, 2021

Sometimes the universe sends cool stuff my way. A good friend took delivery of a large machine from Europe. He discarded the packaging timbers in my direction. They were 2400 x 120 x 90mm and some species of pine. These two projects are a response to this good luck. Workbench When talk turns to…

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