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!

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…

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Disability work | Recycling | Toys | Woodwork

Album of Pride
ByBruce Sharp February 14, 2017August 30, 2021

What Do You Like? Not liking hammers doesn’t make you a freak. It gives you the opportunity to like something else. One of my friends has trouble concentrating for more that a couple of minutes. He will stop work, stand up and walk away! Hammering, sanding and lacquering just don’t hold him. BUT, when he…

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Creative efforts | exploring a skill | Recycling | Toys

Jigsaw
ByBruce Sharp October 5, 2021

Radiata pine is omnipresent but is also a timber with a reputation. It generally has strings of adjectives attached to it where the first is, cheap. Here, a recycled piece, 300mm x 400mm, has been cut into a jigsaw. That was tedious, but more-so was the finishing. Each piece was scorched with a blow torch…

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Disability work | Toys | Woodwork

One Block of Wood
ByBruce Sharp September 12, 2017August 23, 2021

All we did was sand it and paint it. Then added a few stickers. This single block of wood gave my mates two whole sessions of relaxed fun. Pictures tell enough of the story here. Simplicity can sometimes be a good option. Every project is different. Every project has discoveries. The discovery here is that…

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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 | workshop

Dirty Work
ByBruce Sharp December 31, 2018August 23, 2021

Whose work is it? Each project with my friends is really a joint effort. An amount of work belongs to my batch production and an amount to my friends. The components of this project were complex. Sides of the tray were all cut individually on the bandsaw. Each handle involved angles that needed to be…

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