Chainsaw Carving - Based in Scotland, Rodney Holland works with chainsaws, producing wood carvings such as gifts, memorials and furniture for the arts and crafts market.
The Holt Woodcarving Co. - Design and produce handmade carved oak mantelpieces as well as other forms of hand carved decoration.
Living Wood Training - Course information on lathe-turning, chair-making and green wood crafts. Situated in Herefordshire.
Woodenclocks - Enthusiast shares plans and contruction information for building clocks entirely from hardwood.
Diss & District Woodturners Club - Advice, tips and items for sale. as well as a gallery and projects area, including downloads in PDF format. Norfolk.
East Surrey Woodturners - Club formed in 1995 to promote the craft of woodturning in the East Surrey and North Kent areas.
High Peak Woodturners - Woodturning club which meets monthly in Hazel Grove, Stockport. Syllabus, articles, crossword, cartoon.
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
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-- Wedding Toast Wood Craft
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
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-- Albert Einstein Wood Craft Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
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-- Anonymous The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Wood Craft
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
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With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
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I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
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-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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-- Niels Bohr Wood Craft
Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
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-- Mother Teresa Wood Craft
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
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-- Jean de La Fontaine Wood Craft The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
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-- WARREN BEATTY To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Wood Craft
Use your own best judgment at all times.
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-- W. Somerset Maugham Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
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- Helen Rowland Wood Craft The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
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Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Wood Craft Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Wood Craft
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
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-- Theodore Roosevelt "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Wood Craft
My other wife is beautiful. Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Ambition is not a vice of little people.
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