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Matt Moulthrop
The Moulthrop family are three generations of American woodturners, starting with Ed Moulthrop, credited as the "father of modern woodturning". The family has been documented in the book ''Moulthrop: A Legacy in Wood''. Ed Moulthrop Ed Moulthrop (May 22, 1916 – September 24, 2003) was a noted architect and professor, 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. Education and architectural career Ed Moulthrop attended Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve University) and later received a scholarship allowing him to attend Princeton University where he earned a degree in architecture. He traveled abroad during his education, studying architecture in Paris, London and Switzerland as well as watercolor painting in Fontainebleau. After graduating from Princeton University, Moulthrop moved to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodturner
Woodturning is the craft of using a wood lathe with hand-held tools to cut a shape that is symmetrical around the axis of rotation. Like the potter's wheel, the wood lathe is a simple mechanism that can generate a variety of forms. The operator is known as a turner, and the skills needed to use the tools were traditionally known as turnery. In pre-industrial England, these skills were sufficiently difficult to be known as 'the misterie' of the turners guild. The skills to use the tools by hand, without a fixed point of contact with the wood, distinguish woodturning and the wood lathe from the machinist's lathe, or Turning, metal-working lathe. Items made on the lathe include tool handles, candlesticks, egg cups, knobs, Light fixture, lamps, rolling pins, cylindrical boxes, Christmas ornaments, bodkins, knitting needles, needle cases, thimbles, pens, chessmen, spinning tops; legs, spindles, and pegs for furniture; balusters and newel posts for architecture; baseball bats, hollow f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
