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  2. Finial - Wikipedia

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    Public garden (park) railings often end in finials, and wooden posts tend to have turned wood finials. Turned wood finials are used on various pieces of furniture. [16] While the purpose of finials on bed posts is mostly decorative, [17] they serve a purpose on curtain rods, providing a way to keep a curtain from slipping off the end of a ...

  3. Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow - Wikipedia

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    A balustrade with turned wooden posts, open at the aisles, sets the platform off from the rest of the wide-planked floor. Behind it is a table, with a lectern on the north and an enclosed pew along the south side. The ornate wooden pulpit is raised further above the table level; access is provided by a short spiral stair.

  4. Baluster - Wikipedia

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    A baluster (/ ˈ b æ l ə s t ər / ⓘ) is an upright support, often a vertical moulded shaft, square, or lathe-turned form found in stairways, parapets, and other architectural features. In furniture construction it is known as a spindle. Common materials used in its construction are wood, stone, and less frequently metal and ceramic.

  5. Newel - Wikipedia

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    Newel posts turned on a lathe are solid pieces that can be highly decorative, and they typically need to be fixed to a square newel base for installation. [5] These are sometimes called solid newels in distinction from hollow newels due to varying techniques of construction. Hollow newels are known more accurately as box newel posts.

  6. Woodturning - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Timber circle - Wikipedia

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    Modern pillars marking the post-holes of Woodhenge, facing northwards. Timber circles in the British Isles date to the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age.The posts themselves have long since disappeared and the sites are identified from the rings of postholes that they stood in. Aerial photography and geophysical survey have led to the discovery of increasing numbers of the features.

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