If your last name is " Turner " chances are there was a production wood turner some generations ago in your family tree.
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That same wood turner, however, may well charge a considerable premium for achieving the skills and taking the risks to achieve a very thin wall.
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This is one of the reasons why most wood turners eventually seek out a machine shop willing to do small jobs without charging a fortune.
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Wood is a tactile material, certainly, but I've never heard a woodworker or wood turner pitching his ware on the basis of how good it feels.
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Shopping is popular there are high street and boutique stores to browse in, as well as antique shops, art galleries, and studios of potters, wood turners and craftsman.
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On Thursday, the first formal day of the conference, Albert LeCoff, collector, champion of wood turners and organizer of major shows, will present a retrospective slide show of Rude's work.
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It too is now a specialty timber and ancient logs ( in excess of 3, 000 years ) that have been mined from swamps are used by wood turners and furniture makers.
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There were shepherds, plough-makers, beekeepers, forest keepers, wood turners, carters, etc . They toiled for two purposes producing corn and other foodstuffs for themselves and supplying the larder of the Stanhope was their principal pastime.
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Also on view will be two major exhibitions : " The Horn Collection-- Recent Acquisitions, " which is the collection of the wood turner Robyn Horn of Arkansas, and " Rude Osolnik, Old and New ."
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Surviving are two daughters, Druscilla Wood Turner, of Tallahassee, Fla ., and Martha Turner Barton, of Mooresville, N . C .; a son, Capt . W . Fred Turner Jr ., of Plano, Texas; and three grandsons.