It is a good turnery wood and can be peeled off on a rotary cutter. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
It is also used in turnery, for shoe lasts, butcher blocks, ladder rounds, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Also used for boat parts, turnery, ornamentations, and locally for construction. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Abroad it is much used for furniture and farming implements and also in turnery. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Small items such as roofing shingles and turnery products are also made from it. From Wordnik.com. [1. Introduction] Reference
Used in cooperage for woodenware, turnery articles, interior decorations and flooring. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Balsam wood is used for flooring, furniture, interior trim, turnery and railroad ties. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 43] Reference
The wood makes attractive furniture and is suitable for construction work, turnery and carving. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 41] Reference
Abroad it is very extensively used by the carpenter, millwright, and wagon maker, in turnery and wood carving. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
It is also used for butchers 'skewers, and shuttle blocks and wheel stock, and is suitable for turnery and inlaid work. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Commodities produced from the wood include poles, farming implements, carts. wheels, turnery, construction timbers and fuel. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10] Reference
Commodities produced from the wood include poles, farming implements, carts, wheels, turnery, construction timbers and fuel. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 3] Reference
It is extensively used for turnery, buttons, spools, bobbins, wheel hubs, etc. Maine to Minnesota and southward to Tennessee. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
It is used in all good grades of furniture, cabinetmaking, panelling, interior finish, and turnery; it is not liable to warp and twist. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
It is also the principal wood used for spools, bobbins, bowls, shoe lasts, pegs, and turnery, and is also much used in the furniture trade. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Even today in Western Australia, casuarina wood is commercially valued for wood turnery, tool handles, piano legs, shingles, veneer, and panelling. From Wordnik.com. [5. Uses] Reference
It is, however, the finest of all turnery timbers, cutting exactly and finishing to a brilliantly polished, lustrous surface, dry and cold to the touch. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 23] Reference
For turnery generally, cabinet making, and also for agricultural implements, etc., this wood is highly valued; in some of the French winegrowing districts, viz. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 421, January 26, 1884] Reference
In Australia the wood has been used extensively for fence posts but a log size rarely exceeding 2 m x 25 cm usually restricts the use of the wood to small turnery items. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10] Reference
Cherry is chiefly used as a decorative interior finishing lumber, for buildings, cars and boats, also for furniture and in turnery, for musical instruments, walking sticks, last blocks, and woodenware. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
At the top of the last flight he turnery and faced them. From Wordnik.com. [Long Live the King!] Reference
Upjohn, engaged in the hollow-turnery trade, who lived hard by; old. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
Miniature turnery-ware and microscopical sculpture also came into fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4] Reference
The firm wood, which is very durable, is largely used for pins, posts, treenails and in turnery. From Wordnik.com. [North Carolina and its Resources.] Reference
They weave, and plait straw, and make shoes, small articles of turnery and carpentry, and little common wooden clocks. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete] Reference
American Purpleheart wood, which is prized for custom furniture, cabinetry, flooring, sculpture, turnery and marquetry. From Wordnik.com. [Where's Eric! News] Reference
He sat at the table, working at a new churn for his wife; he had some skill at turnery and at invention in such matters. From Wordnik.com. [Stories By English Authors: France (Selected by Scribners)] Reference
The work turned out would, in many cases, take a very high place in an exhibition of turnery, though never a lathe was near it. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference
In France it is much used in turnery; and wine-casks are made from it, as it gives to white wines an agreeable flavour of violets. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Hunters] Reference
So great is the division of labour in the manufacture of the St. Claude wares that it is said there are three thousand different processes in turnery alone!. From Wordnik.com. [Holidays in Eastern France] Reference
The arts of turnery, inlaid work, carving in wood and ivory, have long been peculiar to St. Claude, though when first they were introduced is not exactly known. From Wordnik.com. [Holidays in Eastern France] Reference
Its products are wood turnery items. From Wordnik.com. [7. Other Promising Species] Reference
Used chiefly in turnery, for tool handles, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
6lvp; ant turnery ware. From Wordnik.com. [The general gazetteer, or, Compendious geographical dictionary [microform] : containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world : with the government, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants; the extent, boundaries, and natural productions of each country, the trade, manufactures, and curiosities of the cities and towns; their longitude, latitude, bearings and distances in English miles from remarkable places; and the various events by which they have been distinguished : including an account of the counties, cities, boroughs, market-towns, and principal villages, in Great Britain and Ireland] Reference
Used for spokes, insulator pins, posts, railway ties, wagon framing, turnery, and woodcarving. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
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