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Senni Makes a Spear Experiencing the Joy of Woodworking at the Heritage Woodcraft Centre,   October 2017 The Heritage Woodcraft Centre in Canning Vale is the home of The Joy of Wood, where I, a skilled Cabinetmaker/Joiner, offer workshops and tuition for people of all ages in traditional woodworking hand skills and techniques. This includes many programs and workshops for children.  I have been conducting woodworking activities in schools, festivals, public workshops and private workshops for nine years. The private tuition is also used to provide occupational therapy for people with cognitive and physical disabilities. The value of hand tool woodworking for kids. When kids learn to use traditional hand tools, there are many benefits beyond the production of the project which they are justifiably proud of. Creating with the hands is a tactile, sensual process involving both macro and micro muscle movements.   The activity helps build body awareness, hand-to-eye coordina...

Amid the usual array of workshops on offer during my last series of public workshops in March, there was a couple of new ones, including: Making a Small Picture/Photo Frame. We used hand tools only. It was a great process and it's a fantastic little project. This project will be offered again in the coming public workshop series I'm offering in June. Nice job, Jenny! I reckon this will be a popular workshop. Get in early to secure a place! To tantalize you, here is a bit of a look at the process: It all starts with the materials. I regularly obtain some beautiful timber from packing crate material. This comes either from the UK or from USA/Canada. I wish I knew what the timbers were. I just refer to them generally as "Northern Hemispherical Softwoods". Much nicer and closer grained timber than the introduced softwoods grown here in Western Australia: Pinus radiata and Pinus pinaster.  So much potential! That could be a lot of picture frames... Although I am an...