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Pole and treadle lathe turning refers to woodturning, often using green wood, with any form of non-electrical or non-power driven lathe. This will include pole, bow, treadle, or bungee. It will include sites on the history, and sites giving information on building and using these.
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Association of Pole Lathe Turners - Dedicated to spreading knowledge about pole lathe turning and greenwood working; includes event news, list of courses and demonstrators, gallery and construction plans. Abbotts Living Wood - Information on pole-lathe turning courses, chair-making and green wood crafts. Situated in Herefordshire, UK. Early Wood Lathes - Historical site mainly concerned with games but has pages which include illustrations from manuscripts, on ancient lathes, bow lathes, pole lathes, continual rotation lathe, speciality lathes and notes on a 17th century turner. Tinder Box - Demonstrates turning parts for stools, chairs, ladles, scoops, spurtles, spoons and spatulas. A great activity for open days at historical houses, museums or country fairs in New Zealand. Blood and Sawdust - Articles and essays by Tom Rettie on medieval and Renaissance woodworking; including pole-lathe, flywheel lathe, and portable spring-pole. How to Build a Pole Lathe - How Mark McLean built a simple robust pole lathe in Australia. Green Wood Worker - Dedicated to coordinating volunteers interested in demonstrating pole-lathe and other green wood working crafts, at The Amberley Working Museum, in West Sussex, England. Tuition given in woodland crafts. Greenwoodworking - Ted Rushworth on using a pole-lathe, and useful articles, including history and plans. Includes articles by Brian Haworth of the Beamish Museum.
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