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    PUTTING A SMILE ON YOUR DIAL

    Apr 12, 2019 4 minutes
    By Des Thomson
    Photography: Des Thomson

    One of the great benefits of belonging to a Men’s Shed is the contact you have with an incredible number of guys who enjoy making stuff.

    When Halswell sheddie Jonathan Chaston asked me for help in casting a small part of a piece of artwork in aluminium, little did I know what an extraordinarily creative and talented person I was coming in contact with.

    The casting was a small part of a sculpture that could have come directly from Weta Workshop or the Oamaru Steampunk Museum.

    Born in Christchurch, Jonathan had originally decided to pursue an arts degree and had been accepted to arts school but a car

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