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Host Jill Wagner is in New York meeting a multi-award-winning kayak builder. In Arizona , Jill learns how a craftsman makes old-world style brass door knockers. Finally, in Texas, the grandson of a saddle maker carves incredible wood rocking horses.
Along with stone, clay and animal parts, wood was one of the first materials worked by early humans. Microwear analysis of the Mousterian stone tools used by the Neanderthals show that many were used to work wood. The development of civilization was closely tied to the development of increasingly greater degrees of skill in working these materials.
Native ash species, including white ash (pictured), have been declining rapidly this century due to predation by the emerald ash borer. [1]Silvics of North America (1991), [2] [3] a forest inventory compiled and published by the United States Forest Service, includes many hardwood trees.
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Mahogany is wood from any of three tree species: Honduran or big-leaf mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla), West Indian or Cuban mahogany (Swietenia mahagoni), and Swietenia humilis. Honduran mahogany is the most widespread and the only genuine mahogany species commercially grown today.
To show the flow of the fog, I took a long exposure of 4 seconds. I often use fog as a design element to catch the viewer’s attention and make them take a closer look at the picture.
Rough turning is an inexact science: turning wood too thick will lead to splits, and turning wood too thin will lead to distortion that cannot be removed because not enough thickness is left. Once dry, it is mounted on the lathe a second time and turned to its final form. Rough turning is typically used on most functional work and some art pieces.
Ed Moulthrop (May 22, 1916 – September 24, 2003) was a noted architect and professor, born in Rochester, New York. He is best known as a wood turning artist whose art helped transform the genre into a widely respected art form. He was also an accomplished architect whose designs were used for several key structures around Atlanta, GA.