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  • Old Saw Blade Side Table
    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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  •  Lots of Pooh!!!
    Disability work | Toys | Woodwork

     Lots of Pooh!!!

    ByBruce Sharp March 26, 2021August 26, 2021

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  • Wooden Easter Bunny
    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.

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  •  Knotty Beauty!
    Creative efforts | Recycling | Woodwork

     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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  •  End Grain
    Creative efforts | exploring a skill | Woodwork

     End Grain

    ByBruce Sharp February 17, 2021August 29, 2021

    This is a celebration of end grain. When sanding end-grain to a polish, there is a lovely moment when you stand back to look at the figure. It is always beautiful. The hand cut chain is a fervent hope that the enjoyment never gets away! Human hands don’t seem to be able to create lines…

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  •  More Recycled Glass
    Creative efforts | furniture | Recycling | Woodwork

     More Recycled Glass

    ByBruce Sharp February 17, 2021August 30, 2021

    These little tables are remarkably strong. Birch ply give access to lovely graphic lines. It is a happy design exercise to make a toggle that matches the legs. I like the birch ply, but should have avoided the circle of the body!

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  •  Stretching a Canvas
    exploring a skill | Woodwork

     Stretching a Canvas

    ByBruce Sharp February 17, 2021August 30, 2021

    An artist in my circle wanted to make a frame on which to stretch a canvas. The joint in the corner of such frames is a complex thing that is not to be tackled by a beginning woodworker. I needed to simplify it. In the hope that beginners will give it a go I have…

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  • Disability work | Toys | Woodwork

    Dominoes on the Floor

    ByBruce Sharp October 25, 2020August 23, 2021

    These oversized wooden blocks make a lovely plonking sound as they fall! It is all about fun.

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  • Pallet Wood Bench
    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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  • Back Scratcher
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    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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