Barry,
it's already happening. I've been recently contacted by an
archeologist working on Gauls villlage (so ~2000 or 3000 years old),
who found what she thought to be the remain of a turned object. it
appeared to be what remains when you hollow a bowl between centers,
with the tailstock in place (ala Robin Wood): the core, which you
remove just at the end.

Pascal

"Barry N. Turner" wrote in message .. .
Don't you think archaeologists in the future will dig up some of our
earliest attempts at woodturning (which to us looked like almost perfectly
formed ashtrays, tire knockers and potato mashers) and say to themselves.
"What........ the....... Hell.......is......... that?"

Barry