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from various woods.
On the lathe waits a royal paulownia bowl, turned from a blank taken from one of the logs upstairs. It’s nearly complete: well-formed, light as a feather, delicate, yet with substance.
Starting the hobby
Oley Hill ventured into this hobby to escape the black flies — he was vacationing with Betty in Canada in 1972, and was forced indoors by the swarms typical in a Canadian summer.
Having been a lumberjack and lumber grader, Oley had a feel for wood — and he figured that wood carving would be a
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