On Wednesday, August 24, 2016 at 12:00:37 PM UTC-5, Electric Comet wrote:
when i tell people that i work with wood and mention wood turning they
always grab onto that and in their mind they just think woodturner


so whenever they encounter something about turning they send me the
link

i say gee thanks

sometimes i mention that there are millions of turners and send them
a link to a favorite turner or a picture of one of mine


some of the links they send are interesting but only in that the
turners have been given some publicity but when i look at their
work it is just not very interesting and sometimes not even really
very good but they get the notoriety anyway

Its really odd how a certain person will rocket to prominence and have their work sell for huge sums, while an equally good, or better, turner gets almost no recognition at all.