Wet wood turning

Some fresh mango wood had arrived and one of the year 10 girls decided to try a wet turn. The wood was kept in a plastic bag to stop it drying out when off the lathe. We also sprayed it to keep it damp. The wood developed some lovely spalted effects during this process.

Resin casting for year nines'

Some students tried some new ideas for resin casting with some good results.

Cast base for a 40 year calendar

Layered resin bowl

Bandsaw box log

A lovely piece of camphor laurel mad into a jewelry box

Brazing

The idea of joining metal with brass allows students an easy way to assemble work and also come up with some interesting designs.
Wire birds on a 'She Oak' base

Bee and Comb Nuts and bolts

Lead glass

The soldering work has been popular with some lovely lead glass designs


The abstract elephant

Bird on base

 Many hearts

Turtle to end with

Potpourri bowls

Some lovely work from the year nine students

Stingray

This lovely stingray window hanger made in yr 9

Jigsaw and resin night light

This project done in year nine covers jigsawing and then filling the gap with LED's and resin.

Brazing a hat rack with horse shoes and a little recycling.

Student learn to to operate the oxyacetylene from year nine. They first do basic brazing exercises the move on to gas welding. this student decided to use the brazing unit to make a rack for her hats and use recycled pallets to get the age and withered look.

The jigsaw

This unit of work always proves popular for creative designs that often land up as clocks. Here are some excellent examples of work done by the year nine students.

Using lead glass as an introduction to soldering

Basic soldering techniques are  developed by the students by creating lead glass window hangers and free standing projects. Here are some of the year nine students work.

                                         Air plant holders

                                          A lovely whale tail window hanger

                                          Pyramid with beveled edge to play with the light

Lovely pewter pendants

Another year and more pewter pendants. Here is a collection of the year 9 (13 - 14 years old)
students work.