The World Log to Leg Pole Lathe Turning Championships

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Pole lathe turning is the traditional method of woodturning. Seven contestants had to turn two identical Windsor chair legs from a piece of ash in the quickest time.

Turning on a pole lathe can be relaxing and absorbing while being fairly physical, because it’s leg-powered, it’s a completely sustainable craft.

The race is held to commemorate the chair bodgers, highly skilled craftsmen who used a foot-powered pole lathe to turn chair legs for the Windsor chair-making industry. They would be turning up to 150 chair legs a day, sometimes living in the woods, to satisfy the booming chair-making trade.



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