What the heck is a studio turner?

Re: What the heck is a studio turner?

Barbara Gill, Remlik Virginia

>I have always thought of a studio as being a shop which is non-turner friendly and designed to inspire sales. The extreme is as you have described. Since mine is not, I will continue to call it my shop. :-)

If there is a tablesaw

Dominic Greco in Richboro PA

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in your "Studio", it's a WOODSHOP! :>) That's pretty much my take on the matter.

But I have to agree with Russ' sentiment. Who cares? They can call my garage a "small detached workshop" as long as they buy my bowls! If it makes a customer feel better to refer to me as an artist, I say, "Go for it!" But you can bet you'll never hear me call myself that!

Later,

Dominic

I may have this all wrong but...

TDaniel

>I make my vessels in my shop and I sell them in my little sales room which I call my studio. Nothing is made in the studio although I do sit pieces in there out of the dust to dry. I could (and do) call it a sales room but the work area will always be my shop and the shop will always be 2 to 4 inches deep in shavings and will have cardboard boxes sitting all around with pieces drying inside them, chunks of wood that I haven't gotten too yet, tools laying everywhere (but I always know where they are unless someone else has moved them, and a shop dog laying on the floor at my feet. Now what would a Studio look like?

TD

Re: What the heck is a studio turner?

AndiWolfe

>Hmmm - since my house is about the size of many of those beautiful detached shops some of you have, I have to define my "studio" differently. Most of my after-lathe work is done in a comfy lazy-boy recliner in my living room (complete with apprentices in the form of two small dogs who seem to think it's their job to keep me company while I'm working), or at the kitchen table. I don't have a table saw in my basement anymore, since I had to make room for my lathe, so I can't really call the basement my woodshop, either. So, since my gallery pieces are produced in various parts of my home, is my house my "studio?"

Re: What the heck is a studio turner?

Bill Grumbine, Kutztown PA

>Mike, my shop is a shop almost all the time, except for that one weekend a year when I get out my clip on ponytail, dress in black and stalk about the place with a sullen look on my face for our Studio Tour! For two days a year it is a studio. I have no idea why we have to say that, except that a lot of people who participate actually call their shops studios. I guess the difference is the same as between vase and vase (pronounced vahz). It is all in perception. Now I have to go off to the studio and shovel the floor.

Bill

Re: What the heck is a studio turner?

Carole in VA

>ROFLMAO! Now that's a mental image! Clip-on ponytail, all black, sullen...hahaha! Did you forget the Birkenstock sandals? :-)

So you got a studio shovel?

Fred in NC

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And a beret with AAW patch !

Fred in NC

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A Studio isn't For Us...

Wally Dickerman at Green Valley, Az.

>My dictionary states that a studio is a workplace for a painter, a sculptor or a photographer. It's also for the study of dancing. It's also for making movies. And finally it's for transmitting television, and for audio recordings. There is no mention of woodturning....so I guess it's back to the woodshop or workshop for woodturners. Sorry folks....

Wally

That's It....Dancing.

Stuart Johnson

>I don't remember the exact quote but Del Stubbs talked about dancing with the lathe. So the rest of you can still have a studio. My wife still calls it the garage even though we haven't been able to get the truck in it for at least three years.

Folk Art

jacobin

>Once dated a girl who into the whole multiculti granola munching patchouli scene. She would go on and about her love of "Folk Art".

Never could pin her down about what defined folk art. She got irritated when, after spending a month in Latin America looking at stall after stall of it, I posited the idea that "folk art" was basically what was produced by craftsmen with minimal skill and inferior materials.

No brownie points there.

Re: Hey Wally.....

Mike Rubes, Apex, NC

>Hi Wally,

You know you can add me to your fan list anyday :) Your piece that I have sits very nicely on my mantle. Also on my mantle are a hollow form that I did of Thuya Burl, a spalted maple bowl from a local turner and some glass pieces that my wife collects. Invariably, people comment on yours before any of the others.

Mike

I don't know if it's art, but I know what I like in Apex, NC!!!

Re: That's It....Dancing.

Mike Rubes, Apex, NC

>Hi Stuart,

You're right. In his bowl turning video, Del states:

"You don't hear much talk, these days, of the dance there is in participation in any craft."

I think he was on to something there. I mean, when you are really getting into a piece and you are moving all around the lathe with the tool getting that right angle of attack, I can see it as dancing with the wood. Hmmmm, maybe my MIL's garage is a studio after all!

Mike

Sharing his "studio" with a Honda, a freezer, an old refrigerator, lawn mower, etc, in Apex, NC!!!