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Features Inside the October 2023 Issue:

• Bottoms Up! Bowl-Turning Steps Reconsidered - Terry Martin demonstrates why it is useful to question the usual process; a little forethought keeps more design options open.
  
• A Stool with Stretchers - Professional turner and instructor Beth Ireland offers a straightforward approach to making a sturdy stool, including a simple shopmade jig for drilling the leg holes.
  
• Concepts for Routing Turned Work, Part 1 - The router is a versatile shop tool that offers amazing precision, and when applied to lathe work, it opens up even more creative possibilities, by Cindy Pei-Si Young.
  
  
  

• Concepts for Routing Turned Work, Part 2: A Jig for Boring from Opposing Sides - In Part 2 of this series, Cindy Pei-Si Young shows the use of a simple but specialized jig that aids in drilling from exact opposite sides of a turned workpiece.
  
• Harvey Fein: Machining Creativity - Kevin Wallace profiles Harvey Fein, “elder statesmen of the Studio Woodturning Movement,” on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition of his work at Peters Valley School of Craft.
  
• Joyce Anderson: Pioneering American Woodturner - Craig Edelbrock offers a glimpse of the amazing pioneering career of Joyce Anderson, an early female practitioner of the lathe.
  
• Pioneering Women of the Lathe - Short biographies of three early women turners who set unlikely examples in their own time, by Tib Shaw.
  

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