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The Wooden Bowl, by Robin Wood. Published by Stobart Davies. 181 pages. Colour and black and white photographs and illustrations. Hardbound
Robin Wood has captured his love of the turned wooden bowl onto the printed page. As one of the few production bowl turners left using a pole lathe Robin introduces us to the wooden bowl in history. Unlike pottery wooden artefacts do not preserve well, so the examples he gives are all the more precious for that. The wooden bowl is central to the lives of ordinary people through time and Richard brings that alive for us. In a final section he shows how he turns bowls in his own workshop. Authoritative and practical alike, this really is a seminal work.
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Robin Wood has taken on the case of the turned wooden bowl. Originally inspired by the last remaining bowl turning family, the Laileys of Bucklebury, he has pulled together a coherent history of british turned bowls. The author has indisputable credentials to write this book as a full time professional pole lathe bowl turner himself