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Incredible canoe paddle

Red cedar canoe paddle with hand drawn Orca wood burning, created by First Nations student L.B. in Grade 12. What a great way to wrap up our first Senior Woodwork class of this year! Photo posted with permission of student.

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Posted in First Nations, Home, Self-Directed Wood Projects, Uncategorized, Woodwork Projects and tagged firstnations, paddle, selfdirectedwood, seniorwoodwork, woodburning, woodwork on February 12, 2016 by ktancon. Leave a comment

Beautiful glass pendants

Excellent, creative work by M.R. and E.H. in Grade 10! Leaf pressed in clear glass, and stained glass pendant.

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Posted in Glass Pendants, Home, Jewelry Projects, Uncategorized and tagged glasspendant, jewelryprojects, juniorjewelry on February 12, 2016 by ktancon. Leave a comment

Planter tables

Tables by J.E., B.C., & M.G. in Senior Wood: each one given something unique. Great work, everyone!

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Posted in Home, PlanterTable, Uncategorized, Woodwork Projects and tagged PlanterTable, seniorwoodwork, woodwork on February 12, 2016 by ktancon. Leave a comment

Belt buckles

Wow! First belt buckles at Highland, and they turned out amazingly. In order: J.S. (Come Back), M.F. (Islander), and L.C. (Chevrolet). Excellent work, everyone. More to come.

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Posted in Belt Buckles, Home, Jewelry Projects, Uncategorized and tagged beltbuckle, jewelryprojects, seniorjewelry on February 12, 2016 by ktancon. Leave a comment

Lost wax rings

Fantastic work by L.W., G.S., B.L., and S.G. in Senior Jewelry: owl ring in sterling, others in brass.

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Posted in Home, Jewelry Projects, Lost Wax Casting, Rings, Uncategorized and tagged jewelryprojects, lostwax, rings, seniorjewelry on February 12, 2016 by ktancon. Leave a comment

First earrings!

Beautiful work by C.S. in Grade 11: Highland Jewelry Shop’s first set of cast earrings! Sterling feathers with handmade jump rings.

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Posted in earrings, Home, Jewelry Projects, Lost Wax Casting, Uncategorized and tagged earrings, jewelryprojects, lostwax, seniorjewelry on February 12, 2016 by ktancon. Leave a comment

Awesome castings

T.M. in Grade 11 casts a brass ring that coincidentally looks like our first project, W.H. in Grade 12 makes a sterling set of skulls, L.B. in Grade 12 hand carved wax to cast the small brass knuckle pendant, and M.F. cast an epic wolf ring…excellent work!

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Posted in Home, Jewelry Projects, Lost Wax Casting, Uncategorized and tagged jewelryprojects, lostwax, rings, seniorjewelry on February 12, 2016 by ktancon. Leave a comment

Soldering practise

Excellent electronic soldering practise “sculpture” by Robotics 8 students V.P., C.B., and R.M!

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Posted in Home, Robotics Projects, Uncategorized and tagged grade8, robotics on January 12, 2016 by ktancon. Leave a comment

Planter table

Grade 11 student D.H. worked extremely hard on this fantastic table: great job! Alder with black tile inlay.

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Posted in Home, PlanterTable, Uncategorized, Woodwork Projects and tagged PlanterTable, seniorwoodwork, woodwork on January 12, 2016 by ktancon. Leave a comment

iPad stand

Excellent re-working of our phone stand project, for a larger device. Complete with cut-out for charging cable. Love that pine-beetle blue too. Great job, D.G.!

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Posted in Home, Uncategorized, Woodwork Projects and tagged phonestand, woodwork on January 12, 2016 by ktancon. Leave a comment

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Welcome to our shop class website and gallery! Mx. Tancon teaches Technology Education and Social Studies at Highland Secondary School on the unceded and traditional territories of the Pentlatch, Ieeksun, Sahtloot and Sasitla (today referred to collectively as K'ómoks) First Nation. I am glad you are here!

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