Famous People Who Turn

[Doug Herzberg]

Monsieur Binet in Madame Bovary is famous, but he's not real.

[Don Bunce]

There is an article about Dennis Elliott in issue #84 (sept/oct 1990) of Fine Woodworking. I remember reading that article. What caught my attention was the fact that he bought an $11,000 "portable lathe" (3000 lbs, made by Jim Thompson) after seeing a demo video. I though to myself, what woodturner can afford to do that? After finding out he was the drummer for Foreigner, it became clear....

[Dale Gillaspy]

William H. Macy was in Fine Woodworking several years ago, made the cover. Sorry, but I can't place which issue.

[James Tibbetts]

Macy was on the cover of FWW Woodturning Basics; app. July of 2007.

[Reed Gray]

I have wondered if Mark Harmon (Leroy Jethro Gibbs) was an actual woodworker. He does a lot of it in the show...

robo hippy

[Tracy Tame]

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[Len Mullin]

Yes Reed, Mark Harmon actually is a woodworker, some of his own tools are used on the show. The reason for using his own tools, is because he actually does some planing and other wood work and prefers to use tools he's familiar with. He was being interviewed on some talk show, and he was asked about the tools in that interview. I'm sorry, but, I don't remember what show or episode it was
Len

[Russell Neyman]

Of course, the lathe Red Green used was a Chrysler K-car, bowl mounted with duct tape.

[Chip Sutherland]

There was an article on him in one of the woodturning periodicals several years back. He turns big stuff and carves.

[Russell Neyman]

John Ratzenberger, the actor who played Cliff Claven, the know-it-all postal worker on "Cheers"

[Nicolas Silva]

Attachment 297962 Does this count?

I have based my life after his teachings, so Yes, Yes it does.

[Doug Herzberg]

John Ratzenberger, the actor who played Cliff Claven, the know-it-all postal worker on "Cheers"

John has been a great advocate for the return of vocational education to the public schools. I don't know much about his politics otherwise, but I think a lot of him for that. And I liked "Cliff."

[William Payer]

I have wondered if Mark Harmon (Leroy Jethro Gibbs) was an actual woodworker. He does a lot of it in the show...

robo hippy

I read an article that said Mark Harmon spent time as a carpenter before he went into acting. A guy on a another forum met him at a garage sale where he was perusing the tools.

[David Reed]

I know of many politicians who can seriously spin the truth. Don't know why that skill couldn't be transferred it spinning a little wood. Except many just don't seem to be that sharp.

[Ralph Lindberg]

The list of famous "dead people" is actually quite long. For many years it was fashionable for the nobility of the Germany's (German and Nordic people) to turn.
(copied from the history of OT)
· King Rudolf I (1218-1291)
· Albert IV, Duke of Austria (1377-1404)
· Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519)
· Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (1552-1612)
· Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (1608-1657)
· Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (1640-1705)
· Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1708-1765)
· Leopold, Duke of Lorraine (1679-1729).
· Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (1712-1780)
· William IV, Duke of Bavaria (1493-1550)
· Albert V, Duke of Bavaria (1528-1579)
· William V, Duke of Bavaria (1548-1626)
· Maximilian I, Elector and Duke of Bavaria (1573-1651)
· Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria (1636-1679)
· Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (1662-1726)
· Charles VII Albert, Holy Roman Emperor (1697-1745
· Elector Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria (1727-1777
· Otto of Bavaria (1848-1916)
· Archduke Otto Franz of Austria (1865-1906)
· Augustus, Elector of Saxony (1526-1586) – Augustus ruled from 1553 to 1586. He was known to have turned 135 ivory objects. His son, Christian succeeded him.
· Christian I, Elector of Saxony (1560-1591)
· Christian II, Elector of Saxony (1583-1611
· John George I, Elector of Saxony (1585-1656) – He succeeded to the electorate in 1611 on the death of his elder brother, Christian II. His court turner was known to be Jakob Zeller.
· Johann Casimir, Duke of Saxe-Coburg (1564-1633)
· Frederick III, Elector of Brandenburg, later King Frederick I of Prussia, (1657-1713)
· Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1654-1730)
· William I, Elector of Hesse, later William IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1743-1821)
· Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1667-1739)
· Joseph of Hesse-Darmstadt, Bishop of Augsburg (1699-1768)
· King Friedrich II of Denmark (1534-1588)
· King Friedrich III of Denmark (1609-1670)
· King Christian V of Denmark (1646-1699
· King Friedrich IV of Denmark (1671-1730)
· King Christian VI of Denmark (1699-1746)
· King Frederick V of Denmark (1723-1766)
· Sophia Magdalena of Denmark (1743-1813)
· Carl Gustav Wrangel (1613-1676) – Wrangel was a commander-in-chief of the Swedish army and Count of Salmis.
· Charles XI of Sweden, also known as Karl XI (1655-1697
· King Adolf Friedrich of Sweden (1710-1771)
Peter I of Russia (1675-1725)
· King Louis XV of France (1710-1774) – Louis XV was known to be a skillful turner. The ivory casing of a pendulum clock he worked is preserved in the Palace of Versailes.
· King Louis XVI of France (1754-1793)