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Men's Sheds have been set up across the country to enable men to come together to pursue practical interests like wood-turning and metalwork.

From BBC • May 10, 2017

He taught her to use a table saw, a wood-turning lathe, even a chainsaw which she used to carve a stylized heart out of a block of ice.

From Washington Times • Jun. 14, 2014

The basement of his farmhouse, smothered in sawdust and wood chips, has been converted into a wood-turning studio.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2014

Heather & Ivan Morison work with soot and black bone pigment; David Thorpe with pre-industrial wood-turning and leather-cutting; while Ben Rivers films in Gunkanjima, an island off Nagasaki.

From The Guardian • Feb. 11, 2012

Wilder manufacture respectively the Waymouth wood-turning lathe and Wilder's patent lathe.

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 6, March, 1885 by Various