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Therming is a technique used by woodturners to simultaneously create multiple copies of spindles and table legs. [1] Often described as off-center spindle turning, therming is also known as drum turning and barrel turning. [1] Therming allows a woodturner to make exact duplicates of three, four or however many spindles a therming rig can hold.
Quercus suber, commonly called the cork oak, is a medium-sized, evergreen oak tree in the section Quercus sect. Cerris.It is the primary source of cork for wine bottle stoppers and other uses, such as cork flooring and as the cores of cricket balls.
A glass stopper is often called a "ground glass joint" (or "joint taper"), and a cork stopper is called simply a "cork". Stoppers used for wine bottles are referred to as "corks", even when made from another material. [citation needed] A common every-day example of a stopper is the cork of a wine bottle.
Woodturning is the craft of using a wood lathe with hand-held tools to cut a shape that is symmetrical around the axis of rotation. Like the potter's wheel, ...
The Putnam Lightning stopper saw widespread use as a means to hold externally inserted corks into blob top [clarification needed] soda bottles. [1] [2] On September 10, 1878 a patent (#207,982) was issued for an “Improvement in Bottle Stoppers and Bottle Fasteners”. On February 10, 1880 Putnam received a patent (#224,304) for the "Putnam ...
Raffan was a part of the "art turning" movement that saw turned objects move into galleries where they are presented as works of art. [2] Although he has created large and valuable works of exotic woods, in his books he has also championed simple utilitarian works created for daily use.