Toys | Woodwork

Wooden Easter Bunny

ByBruce Sharp March 24, 2021August 26, 2021

There are versions of this on ETSY and Thingiverse and probably many other places. I couldn’t find anywhere that seemed like an original source.

My whole family are all getting one.

They will love it because it is from my hands.

The Trolley

ByBruce Sharp December 30, 2016August 21, 2021

The last couple of months have been dominated by the fire engine and clocks, so this blog has been a little quiet. It is good news that we sold thirty clocks with money going to my friends’ care. To keep the blog active, here is an entry about The Trolley. Its creation occupied lots of…

Woodwork

Grille

ByBruce Sharp July 3, 2022July 3, 2022

After a few attempts to bend fine strips into curves, I gave up and resorted to the scroll saw.

Creative efforts | furniture | Woodwork

Wedding Treasure Box

ByBruce Sharp April 6, 2017August 21, 2021

Weddings generate lots of emotional investment. Minute details become important. To make something for a wedding is to buy shares in loaded scrutiny. Here is my response to a request for a box to take cards at a wedding. The brief was relatively open; it sought a white container with a slot for posting cards in its…

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…

Creative efforts | Woodwork

Wooden Cake

ByBruce Sharp February 26, 2017August 21, 2021

How can a woodworker be involved in cake decorating? My wife is a traditional cake decorator. She does the fancy thing with icing and makes sugary lace and that kind of stuff. An event called for an art deco cake. It could have been made from icing, but in that era much of the furniture…

Recycling | Woodwork | workshop

Cheap Work Bench

ByBruce Sharp September 2, 2017August 23, 2021

Stable Work Surface Jobs in wood offer incredible variety. My brief, on this occasion, was to make a strong and serviceable workbench. It was to be big enough and stable enough for multiple workers to use hand planes. It wasn’t to cost too much for it would be disposed of after three days of use….

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