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.

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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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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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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Creative efforts | Disability work | Toys | Woodwork

Sensory Wall
ByBruce Sharp August 29, 2017August 23, 2021

There is a quiet room where the more stressed of my friends find gentleness. Fixed to the wall is a plywood panel that enables us to stick stuff where ever we feel. The stuff is really a collection of toys that have something sensory about them. It may be a movement or a gentle noise….

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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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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!

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