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02-21-2016, 07:56 PM
I was just watching the recent BBC production of War and Peace.

At about the 7:10 hr mark Prince Bolkonsky (the elder, the grumpy old man) is seen mounting a piece of wood on his treadle lathe, that is sitting in the parlor.
Spot oh authentic for the period. Nobles in German, Scandinavian and Russian areas took up turning as a avocation.

Of course -they- didn't have to clean up the wood chips.
Making sawdust mostly, sometimes I get something else, but that's more accident then design.
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02-21-2016, 09:42 PM
The things you see when you are a wood turner. I see wood piles everywhere I, but can not bring home and wish I could.

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02-22-2016, 05:34 AM
Peter the Great was supposedly a pretty good turner.
Better to follow the leader than the pack. Less to step in.
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02-23-2016, 10:56 AM
Wouldn't that make him Peter the Pretty Good?
The tools some of those nobles used were works of art in their own right.
Ivory handled dovetail saw anyone?
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