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!

Woodwork | workshop

Not a Roubo Bench- workbench for a small space
ByBruce Sharp November 15, 2017August 23, 2021

A workbench is a personal statement. In a concrete way it expresses needs, resources and interests of the person who made it. Many boasts are to be found that an author/woodworker has intelligently created superior responses to the needs of a workshop. Here is another entry into that crowded arena. However, what follows makes no…

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Toys | Woodwork

Serving Tray
ByBruce Sharp August 11, 2015August 21, 2021

Good Ideas Don’t Need to be Complicated Serving Tray For an object to complete the journey from initial musings to touchable reality requires a certain fidelity, on my part, to the original idea. Discouragements take the form of excessively complex prototypes. It is difficult to let simplicity rule. The journey of the serving tray couldn’t be shorter….

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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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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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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.

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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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