Thread: Recent work from the shed

Great work as usual my friend!!! The compass rose is especially eye catching!!

Wow Cooroy, This is a little away for your usual toys but they look superb, well done.
The compass star would look good on anyone's walls, beautiful.
Cheers, crowie

Great work on the compass. No need not be concerned about the joints at the back. No one will see them once on the wall. Nothing wrong with the front joints that everyone will see.
Lots of different items you have been dabbling in, and all well done.
Maybe you should put your question about your thread here.

I like the design of the Celtic love spoon. Post a pic when you're done

Back in the work shop and hard at it again. The Local Library has asked me to put on a display of my doll house furniture and houses. The Cooroy Woodworkers Wood Show is coming up on May 10th , so I'll have to knuckle down and get to it.
DSCF6148.jpgTree house.... This one is about 12 hours work.

DSCF6149.jpgAll made from recycled timber.

DSCF6150.jpgThe floors are discarded shelves from a cabinet no longer in use.

DSCF6151.jpg The posts are made from Camphor Laurel.

DSCF6152.jpg With working crane

DSCF6153.jpg Pot plants at the front

DSCF6154.jpg Where did these come from?

those treehouses are fantastic. I had one go (gave it away to my daughter's steiner pre-school) but it was nowhere near your quality. Your ones inspire me to have another go.
thanks
Mick

Good grief!! I'm amazed!!!

Thank you for the compliments. I appreciate it.
An update on the Compass Rose.. the customer was very pleased with it and happily paid what she originally offered me to make it.
Wait for it.... $300.00. Yes I know, how often dose that happen, actually being paid the real value of your Art. Yes it can be called ""art"" if it's recognized by ""some"" of the public as such.
I only mentioned this because, as craftsmen we rarely get adequately compensated for our creations.
I was at an at show once selling toys ( Coolum Art Show )... go figure. Anyway, a well known local artist who was one of the art judges saw my doll tree house and he called it "art".

So when I put $300.00's on the above tree house ( I usually sell smaller ones for $200 ) I'm selling not a toy as much as it is a piece of art , a creation.
My Spitfire takes up to 20 hours to make, I sell them for $90.00. I know, right, if I charged $20.00 an hour, that would make it $400.00 or more, they would never sell at that price.
What I'm trying to say is ....when are we gonna get taken seriously?
Ok, I'll get off my soap box now ...... I just had an idea how I can turn it into a toy


all the best

Rob.

Below are a few of the 50 odd items I made this week. The 80cm long arch bridges are new as are the wells.
IMG_20130420_114128.jpgCupboards
IMG_20130420_114152.jpgWells
IMG_20130420_114208.jpgStove with built in chimney
IMG_20130420_114318.jpgA car made from Jacaranda.
IMG_20130424_181337.jpgA bridge with stick railings.. not something I recommend having a go at...... just plain fiddly work
IMG_20130424_181351.jpgThis one was easier, I made 4 of these
IMG_20130424_181509.jpgSome new cars...very tiny
IMG_20130424_181750.jpgand a set of table and chairs.

There are a lot more I made ... pretty much variations on a theme. But this gives you an idea how they can be made from nothing but sticks and off cuts. I hope to sell a few at the coming Cooroy Woodworkers Show in May.
Regards
Rob

The wishing wells are too cool!

Bret

Here are some flowers I made from scraps of wood and the children's paint set.

DSCF6159.jpgThe stems are bamboo skewers and dowel on the larger ones

Next .... Cooroora Woodworkers Show 2013 Cooroy.

Here are just a few pics I took on the day...... 10/05/13 in Cooroy Qld.
I don't enter comps. So one of our club members pinched ( with my consent ) a couple of my toys and entered them into the Toy section of the inter club competitions.
To our surprise I got a third place. I must add that there were very few entries in that section :/
As more pictures come to me I'll post better quality ones for your enjoyment.
ATDW_Landscape__BO61_Cooroy_Fusion_2012_078.jpg The fusion Day Festival Near the Cooroy Library 2013. The Club house and the old Saw Mill are in the back ground.
DSCF6160.jpg A demonstration of wood turning in the club rooms

DSCF6161.jpgDSCF6162.jpgDSCF6163.jpgDSCF6165.jpg My display of toys on the verandah of the Club House.
DSCF6169.jpgDSCF6172.jpgDSCF6173.jpgDSCF6174.jpg Demonstrations by Club Members. Pen making, Wood Shaping blade being put to good use by Dave Putland making slab shaped stools. Wood carving

DSCF6177.jpgDSCF6178.jpgDSCF6179.jpgDSCF6180.jpgDSCF6181.jpgDSCF6182.jpg An out house and miniature box of tools made by the incomparable Dave Putland. Compare the size of the tool box to an ordinary pen

Some Competition entries from the Cooroora Woodworkers Show 2013
DSCF6183.jpg big ... just really big
DSCF6185.jpg Nice
DSCF6186.jpg Grinling Gibbons would be impressed
DSCF6187.jpg Comp entries
DSCF6188.jpg My feeble entries
DSCF6189.jpg Excellent detail
DSCF6191.jpg Secret compartments included. One of our members made this one
DSCF6192.jpg Aboso-bloody-lutly brilliant.
DSCF6193.jpg Sweet
DSCF6194.jpg Would you believe it ... more of Dave Putlands work... both chairs
DSCF6195.jpg excellent
DSCF6196.jpg I found Nemo
DSCF6197.jpg What the!
DSCF6198.jpgMore comp entries
DSCF6199.jpg a mango tree coffee table

More pictures to come !!!!

The Woodwork Club is certainly alive and doing very well in Cooroy... lots of different woodworkers and some beautiful work indeed.....

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I'm a bit jealous on you people! In my neighborhood I can't seem to find anyone doing anything with wood (apart from the shops). I can't ask advice or go to see someone for a different approach to problems...