RJT>> Speaking of wood working, the local PBS station runs one
RJT>> show on saturday afternoons that's a guy who goes as far as
RJT>> he can toward the "old fashioned" way of doing things, all
RJT>> hand-operated (and some hand-made) tools, while the show
RJT>> that follows it comes as close to "machine shop" as you can
RJT>> get and still be working with wood. It's an interesting
RJT>> contrast. 

CA>> The 'slang' for wood patternmakers when a person puts too
CA>> much effort into making a wood pattern look good is to call
CA>> it 'furniture'.

 RJT> Heh.  This guy did some of that,  too.  And the other guy
 RJT> even had a "treadle lathe",  foot-operated.  To me that's
 RJT> carrying things a bit to the extreme,  though I suppose for
 RJT> a fairly small amount of work where acquiring a regular
 RJT> lathe wouldn't in any way be practical,  it might be
 RJT> worthwhile.

you must be talking about the woodwright's shop... if i'm not mistaken, its
video'd just up the road from here about an hour or so... i used to watch
it all the time but time marches on and there's too many things to do...

)\/(ark