Lots of Pooh!!!

ByBruce Sharp March 26, 2021August 26, 2021

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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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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exploring a skill | Woodwork

Stretching a Canvas
ByBruce Sharp February 17, 2021August 30, 2021

An artist in my circle wanted to make a frame on which to stretch a canvas. The joint in the corner of such frames is a complex thing that is not to be tackled by a beginning woodworker. I needed to simplify it. In the hope that beginners will give it a go I have…

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Creative efforts | furniture | Recycling | Woodwork

Footstools
ByBruce Sharp June 1, 2016August 21, 2021

Footstools It is a permanent source of inspiration to me that problems posed to woodworkers have no single correct response. If asked to make a footstool, what would a valid response look like? If a footstool is a small flat platform supported 100 to 300mm above the floor, how many ways could I make it?…

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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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Disability work | Toys | Woodwork

Toy Aeroplane
ByBruce Sharp June 8, 2017August 21, 2021

Lately, many projects have been created as presents; the latest note pad was a gift to the boss of the house we work in. It is simply time to make something self indulgent. So, here is our toy aeroplane.Some of my friends will not be able to make sense of what we are making. Others…

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