Woodwork

Kid’s Chair

ByBruce Sharp July 3, 2022

Left over decking boards and a lazy Susan bearing. The bearings are pretty strong and should be able to take the weight of a little backside.

Thoughts | Woodwork

The Racing Car Won!
ByBruce Sharp October 4, 2016August 22, 2021

Decisions of Children A retailer wanted a morning’s activity with children.Making children happy isn’t difficult; they love doing cool stuff. When given a choice of projects they apply assumptions passed on by their parents. It is fun to present them with a boy’s cliché, a girl’s cliché and a gender non specific alternative. They were presented…

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Creative efforts | Woodwork

Note Pad- Clip Board
ByBruce Sharp May 22, 2017August 21, 2021

Clip Board The note pad that went into the Mothers’ Day baskets was a hit. It was both simple to make and functional.Wooden mechanisms are clumsy. At the proportions of a note pad it is difficult to include complexity. But, enlarged to A4 scale you can fit a nice wooden spring loaded clip at the…

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Disability work | Woodwork

Clock of Success
ByBruce Sharp July 19, 2016August 21, 2021

The greatest gift from a teacher is success, for success fertilises the desire for more success and nourishes self esteem. A student, typically, is the hardest assessor of their own work. So, the creation of work where students feel their own success is the art of teaching. This piece of work began with the donation of…

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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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Creative efforts | exploring a skill | furniture | Recycling | Woodwork

Old Saw Blade Side Table
ByBruce Sharp May 31, 2021August 25, 2021

Junk is stuff you have no use for. Here is a blade that was destined for land fill, so was the timber. Junk can be reclassified! The teeth have been ground smooth and the weight of the blade gives the table a nice stability. In making this there was a nice exploration of cutting compound…

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Woodwork

Landscape
ByBruce Sharp August 29, 2021August 29, 2021

The wood speaks for itself!

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