I enjoy Arch's musing and was asking him about the following, so I
thought I would throw it out to guys as well


I am more of a dinker wood turner than a good wood turner. My Gmail
name is virtualwoodturner to give you an idea. There is not a magazine
or book I can pass up. New wood, book. New wood, book. the book wins
out. But they are made of wood also are they not? So it is not that bad.
Not being a dye in the wool turner I go out in the garage to have fun
and sometimes
something comes off the lathe that is useful. While out in the garage
I thought when does your turning space go from a garage to a shop to a
studio?????. My car has not seen the inside of it's home in years, does
that mean it is now my shop?? If I put something in a gallery now does
it go from shop to studio??
What do you guys think?????????

Bruce

Hi Bruce, Thanks for the kind encouragement; Others might blame you for
it. Now to answer your query with some serious research I've done
for RCW.

98.6 % of woodturner's cannot garage their cars. 'Journal of
irreproducible results.' Vol xx, pg 21

'Home is where the lathe is'. 'Annals of doggerel' Vol xx, pg 21

A woodturner's garage becomes a shop the day he buys his house.
'Homeless car support group' personal communication

The workroom doesn't change from shop to studio, the woodturner changes
from craftsman to artist. 'Musings from Chairman Arch' RCW, Sept 31,
'96, 0300 hrs.

A shop becomes a studio when more videos than bowls are made there.
(clergy excepted) Local turning club newsletter vol. 100. no. 001
'review of the semi-annual film & ego festival.

A neat and tidy shop is a sign of a woodturner with an alpha spouse.
'faded sign on a barn roof' abandoned farm on county road, just off US
I 20.

On the Baja there are no maisons with attached ateliers, but there is
one very nice hacienda with a resident Mac and an attached nuevo taller
de arte. 'Mexican Real Estate News', ironwood section Vol. 6 no. 6
pg. 6

And finally; Never trust a woodturner who would trade an iron lathe for
iron wood and it's iffy to trust a woodturner who contracts cabinets,
but uses Texas exotics to barbecue. Especially if they post to rcw!
'Archives of wasted bandwidth' Vol ? no. ??. pg ???.

I have no hope that this helps, Bruce.


Turn to Safety, Arch
Fortiter


http://community.webtv.net/almcc/MacsMusings

I was listening to some one talking about business and art at one of
the shows I go to, and their comment was that atrists have a studio,
and crafters have a shop. Some consider my work to be art (if it don't
hold soup, then it is art... Anthony Yak). If you come to where I
work, there is no doubt that it is a shop, not a studio. I still
consider some of the stuff I do as art. Studio is just too snooty for
me. If you master your craft, then you are an artist. I am a grade or
two below master, but getting better all the time. But then again, the
old topic of is it craft, or is it art. I don't really care, as long
as people like and buy it, and I can continue to make the shavings
fly.
robo hippy

On Jun 3, 7:55*am, (Arch) wrote:
Hi Bruce, *Thanks for the kind encouragement; Others might blame you for
it. * Now to answer your query with some serious research I've done
for RCW.

98.6 % of woodturner's cannot garage their cars. *'Journal of
irreproducible results.' *Vol xx, pg 21

'Home is where the lathe is'. *'Annals of doggerel' *Vol xx, pg 21

A woodturner's garage becomes a shop the day he buys his house.
'Homeless car support group' * personal communication

The workroom doesn't change from shop to studio, the woodturner changes
from craftsman to artist. *'Musings from Chairman Arch' *RCW, Sept 31,
'96, 0300 hrs.

A shop becomes a studio when more videos than bowls are made there.
(clergy excepted) *Local turning club newsletter vol. 100. no. 001
'review of the semi-annual film & ego festival.

A neat and tidy shop is a sign of a woodturner with an alpha spouse.
'faded sign on a barn roof' *abandoned farm on county road, just off US
I 20.

On the Baja there are no maisons with attached ateliers, but there is
one very nice hacienda with a resident Mac and an attached nuevo taller
de arte. *'Mexican Real Estate News', ironwood section *Vol. 6 no. 6
pg. 6

And finally; Never trust a woodturner who would trade an iron lathe for
iron wood and it's iffy to trust a woodturner who contracts cabinets,
but uses Texas exotics to barbecue. Especially if they post to rcw!
'Archives of wasted bandwidth' *Vol ? no. ??. pg ???.

I have no hope that this helps, Bruce. *

Turn to Safety, *Arch * * * * * * * * * * * *
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Fortiter

http://community.webtv.net/almcc/MacsMusings

Bruce Ferguson wrote:

I enjoy Arch's musing and was asking him about the following, so I
thought I would throw it out to guys as well


I am more of a dinker wood turner than a good wood turner. My Gmail
name is virtualwoodturner to give you an idea. There is not a
magazine or book I can pass up. New wood, book. New wood, book. the
book wins out. But they are made of wood also are they not? So it is
not that bad. Not being a dye in the wool turner I go out in the
garage to have fun and sometimes
something comes off the lathe that is useful. While out in the
garage I thought when does your turning space go from a garage to a
shop to a studio?????. My car has not seen the inside of it's home in
years, does that mean it is now my shop?? If I put something in a
gallery now does it go from shop to studio??
What do you guys think?????????

Bruce






None of my cars have seen the inside of a garage since 1966, but the
garage's purpose has varied quite a bit over the years. Sometimes it has
functioned like a workshop, other times close to a studio. At present it
looks a lot like the dropoff point for Goodwill.

But I'm going to sort that out RSN.