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  • "FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH" An art show and sale of oil paintings, watercolors, acrylics, ceramics and wood-turning pieces.

    Going Out Guide for Alexandria and Arlington, Va., Oct. 14-20 Post 2010

  • Heather & Ivan Morison work with soot and black bone pigment; David Thorpe with pre-industrial wood-turning and leather-cutting; while Ben Rivers films in Gunkanjima, an island off Nagasaki.

    This week's new exhibitions 2012

  • The one-third horsepower single-phase motor on the wood-turning lathe was crudded up to extinction.

    The Vatican Rip Gash, Jonathan 1981

  • Adjusting himself to this new environment, Mr. Richards opened a shop for wood-turning, painting and glazing.

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various

  • _Calipers_, outside and inside, Figs. 209, 210, are necessary for the accurate gaging of diameters, as in wood-turning.

    Handwork in Wood William Noyes

  • When a log was finally secured to be cut into shafts for spears, and they saw the wood-turning lathe make the shaft round and true, their enthusiasm knew no bounds.

    The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages Roger Thompson Finlay

  • In turning it, therefore, brass-turning tools, though leaving not quite such a perfect finish as wood-turning tools, last much longer, and really do well enough.

    On Laboratory Arts Richard Threlfall

  • East Technical the shopwork includes joinery and wood-turning during the first year, and pattern making and foundry work during the second year.

    Wage Earning and Education Rufus Rolla Lutz

  • The cutting point is ground on both edges like a wood-turning tool, and held up to the work "at an angle of twenty or thirty degrees" (? with the horizontal).

    On Laboratory Arts Richard Threlfall

  • Turn up a disc of soft wood on the lathe, and run it at the highest wood-turning speed.

    On Laboratory Arts Richard Threlfall

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