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!

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…

Disability work | Toys | Woodwork

Sam’s Basket

ByBruce Sharp February 6, 2017August 21, 2021

Sharing with Good People Sam is a wonderful helper in my disability woodwork lessons. This basket is her idea. She rattled her head until the idea came then generously passed it on to me. Woodwork is fascinating and sharing it is rewarding. BUT the reward is doubled when people in the workshop are enthusiastic. When the enthusiasm is…

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!

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…

Woodwork

Kid’s Chair

ByBruce Sharp July 3, 2022

Disability work | Toys | Woodwork

Fire Engines

ByBruce Sharp July 6, 2016August 21, 2021

My friends were impressed by the notion that our train’s carriages could be hooked together and towed around. It failed, however, in that each woodworker could only take home a single carriage; they had nothing to tow. At the end of the train project, and experiencing a flush of overconfidence, I asked staff for inspiration. They requested a fire…

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