Workholding Devices designed and made with and for young people.

This is a project that draws on the rich history of workholding devices for woodworkers to inform new mobile workbenches that can decentralise the practice of woodwork and thereby increase participation in the activity.

This is an ongoing piece of work that explores the use of low work benches that are built around the use of body weight and holdfasts to immobilise a workpiece. By creating simple to make and relatively light weight devices that are easy to transport and store, the intention is to free the practice of woodwork from the grip of the immoveable heavy woodwork benches typically found in schools and colleges.

The project is a collaboration with a North-East based creative arts organisation Kids Kabin that runs regular pop-up community based making activities for young people.