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Over the past weekend I attended the North Carolina Woodturners' Symposium. A response to a question posed to one of the demonstrators caught my ear and resonated loud and clear.

The question: "Do you work in a 'shop' or a 'studio'? -- the implication being a 'shop' is where woodworkers toil and a 'studio' is where artists perform. The demonstrator responded with: "Neither. I work in a turnery." Looking up 'turnery' up in the dictionary reveals:

turn·er·y

[tur-nuh-ree] noun, plural turn·er·ies.

1. the process or art of forming or shaping objects on a lathe.
2. objects or articles fashioned on a lathe collectively.
3. a workshop where such work is done.

I'll be renaming my workplace!


 
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They say a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, so I guess turned Cedar smells just as sweet regardless of what you call your workspace.:biggrin:
 
to quote one of the more verbose members of my local club, it is a "garage/workshop/studio/atelier (depending on the price of the piece)"
 
I have a 3 car garage with no cars in it. It does however hold a Harley.
I am thinking of moving the lathe stuff (the turnery?) indoors for the winter
 
walshjp17 said:
Over the past weekend I attended the North Carolina Woodturners' Symposium. A response to a question posed to one of the demonstrators caught my ear and resonated loud and clear.

The question: "Do you work in a 'shop' or a 'studio'? -- the implication being a 'shop' is where woodworkers toil and a 'studio' is where artists perform. The demonstrator responded with: "Neither. I work in a turnery." Looking up 'turnery' up in the dictionary reveals:

turn·er·y

[tur-nuh-ree] noun, plural turn·er·ies.

1. the process or art of forming or shaping objects on a lathe.
2. objects or articles fashioned on a lathe collectively.
3. a workshop where such work is done.

I'll be renaming my workplace!
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I've always called it the shop, but I'm really liking turnery.
 
Mine's the "Mini shop-ette". (5x8 & everthing on wheels to work outside)

I like the Turnery word.

..Turnery-ette!


Steve
 
One Car Garage full of woodworking equipment = a shop
Two car garage full of woodworking equipment = a studio
A lathe a basement peace and quiet = Heaven
 
mine is a shop. a stand alone building about the size of a garage, but with no garage door.

to me, a 'studio' is immaculately clean and well organized. that, I am far far from.
 
I go to "the upstairs of the barn" or just "upstairs". Sadly, there are too many other uses for that one room to even call it a shop. It consists of a (newly named) "turnery corner", "that big mess Joey (me) made", "the table", "that closet where we keep the bee stuff", "that mess with the saddles", "those shelves with the electrical/plumbing/nails/screws/fencing/chicken-feeders/waterers on it", and "the bottom of the stairs".
 
I call mine a shop but it started life as a bedroom in the basement :) (the wife's daycare gets the rest of the basement). I do like turnery though but I do more than turning so shop still fits.
 
Mine is called...

Known only to myself, "The hidey-hole".

Others know it as basement or cellar.

I can have that radio going 24/7 don't matter, just don't run table saw or router after about 9:00 PM, right under our/her bedroom.

I can run anything else it doesn't bother her or anyone else.

Have daughter and two small grandchildren living here while daughter gets "time in trade" in before going to med school.

Charlie
 
D.Oliver said:
atelier....had to google that one.
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I actually use the word atelier once in a while, usually I say studio. I think it is important to present myself as an artist, not a hard toiling woodworker. I don't turn wood anyway, and plasticworker just has absolutely no cachet at all.

Is the person who works in turnery called a lathest? I've used the title Lathest on my business card.
 
I started calling mine a studio after some of the folks over at scrollsawerbcalled my scroll works works of art and I think we can rightly call it a studio as we are all artisan in our own right.
 
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