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War and Peace - n7bsn - 02-21-2016
I was just watching the recent BBC production of War and Peace.
At about the 7:10 hr mark Prince Bolkonsky (the elder, the grumpy old man) is seen mounting a piece of wood on his treadle lathe, that is sitting in the parlor.
Spot oh authentic for the period. Nobles in German, Scandinavian and Russian areas took up turning as a avocation.
Of course -they- didn't have to clean up the wood chips.
Re: War and Peace - Arlin Eastman - 02-21-2016
The things you see when you are a wood turner. I see wood piles everywhere I, but can not bring home and wish I could.
Arlin
Re: War and Peace - MichaelMouse - 02-22-2016
Peter the Great was supposedly a pretty good turner.
Re: War and Peace - Rodneywt1180b - 02-23-2016
Wouldn't that make him Peter the Pretty Good?
The tools some of those nobles used were works of art in their own right.
Ivory handled dovetail saw anyone?
Rodney