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Professional turners of the non-useful have been and are hard-working and influential in woodturners’ clubs and regional and national associations. Not surprisingly this has and continues to influence the focus of those organisations and the types of turnings their members produce.

The memberships of the British and the American Woodturners Associations are in 2019 about 3,000 plus and 18,000 respectively. These totals are a credit to all past and present officers, although equivalent to only 1 in about 20,000 of their country’s populations. Had these two organisations focussed less on non-useful turning would those numbers be higher? It’s impossible to know.