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    Recycled Wheelchair

    ByBruce Sharp December 13, 2019August 25, 2021

    It has been a long absence from blogging.  To explain would take a box of tissues and a patient listener. …suffice to say, I lost my workshop, but am now close to finding it again. A workbench on castors suffers from lack of mobility when small diameter wheels bump into chunks of stuff on the…

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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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  • 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 | 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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  • 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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  • Recycling | Woodwork | workshop

    Cheap Work Bench

    ByBruce Sharp September 2, 2017August 23, 2021

    Stable Work Surface Jobs in wood offer incredible variety. My brief, on this occasion, was to make a strong and serviceable workbench. It was to be big enough and stable enough for multiple workers to use hand planes. It wasn’t to cost too much for it would be disposed of after three days of use….

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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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  • 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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  • Creative efforts | Toys | Woodwork

    Book Ends

    ByBruce Sharp July 1, 2017August 23, 2021

    Indulging Self and Grand Daughter Every act of making has some self indulgence in it. Here is a response to the gift of scraps of 30mm plywood. The sheet edge is a bold linear graphic. Making my grand daughter’s initials to decorate her book ends indulged my desire to play with mitres in the lines…

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  • Disability work | Toys | Woodwork

    Toy Aeroplane

    ByBruce Sharp June 8, 2017August 21, 2021

    Lately, many projects have been created as presents; the latest note pad was a gift to the boss of the house we work in. It is simply time to make something self indulgent. So, here is our toy aeroplane.Some of my friends will not be able to make sense of what we are making. Others…

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