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DECEMBER 2019
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JOE’S CRAFTY CREATIONS Inspired by upcycling TV programmes and YouTube inventors, local teenager Joe Bowen has been getting creative. Joe, 15, decided to learn his craft and use it as the “skill” section of his Silver Duke of Edinburgh award, which he has recently completed through the Extreme Explorer Scout unit, who are based in Twyning. Joe, a Tewkesbury School student who lives in the town, enjoys making something new out of old interesting objects. Joe says; “Yes - it’s hard work, but it’s also great fun.” He first began building things when he designed and made, with his parents help, a fort for the garden - using old pallets and planks of wood. He moved on to other skills by making a home furnace from not much more than a steel bucket, plaster-of-paris, charcoal and his mum's hairdryer. After watching a few YouTube videos he was able to melt down aluminium drinks cans to make interesting shapes for future crafting use.
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More recently, he has purchased and re-purposed a couple of old car engine cylinder heads, creating two glasstopped side tables. Joe was grateful to local company Architectural Products for making the glass tops.
Joe at work Joe believes that young people should be given the chance to do activities like this, but that due to safety worries and lack of support, parents don’t always allow their children to use creativity in this way.
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Joe’s reindeer, made from horseshoes Joe was given a small basic welder last Christmas, which has enabled him to have a go at something different. After being given a bag of old horse shoes by a family friend, he has researched and made some lovely reindeer. Each one took a few hours to make. The horseshoes first need cleaning, then grinding before welding and spraying to create the final piece. He has since sold eight reindeer as Christmas decorations! What’s next for Joe? “I’d like to be able to work on an old car and get it looking decent, he said. “I might try this as my skill section for my Gold
Duke of Edinburgh award, but I can’t start that until I’m 16, so for now I’ll have to settle with restoring old lamps and welding random stuff.”
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