Emmett Manley is a longtime member of MSWG and AAW. He is a retired medical scientist/professor who got hooked on woodturning in 2005. He enjoys studying and collecting wood native to western Tennessee and turning that wood into useful items.

Out of a Limb: Natural-Edge Bowls

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October

2013

Have Fun With Ebonizing

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Wood Spin printed in Turners Talk

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June

2009

Food Safety

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August

2009

A Tale Of Two Bowls

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October

2009

Sanding 101

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December

2009

Woodturning Internet Forums

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February

2010

Sensational Woodturning

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April

2010

Sweet Gum - An Unappreciated Treasure

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June

2010

The Much Maligned Scraper

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August

2010

Un-Chucking Wood

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October

2010

Osage Orange: A Love Hate Relationship

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December

2010

Hypoxylon -- Deadly, But Beautiful

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February

2011

The Scary Skew Chisel

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April

2011

A Different World

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June

2011

Drying Wood

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August

2011

The Lowly Bottle Stopper

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October

2011

Shop Science

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December

2011

How Do You Learn Woodturning?

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February

2012

Turning Rotten Wood

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April

2012

Rare Earth Magnets

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June

2012

Honey Locust

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August

2012

Buyers Remorse

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October

2012

The Almighty Bevel

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December

2012

Warming Up At The Lathe

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February

2013

Paulownia tomentosa - A True Mystery Wood

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April

2013

Accidental Education

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June

2013

Identification Of Wood

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August

2013

Woodturning: A Breathtaking Experience

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October

2013

Woodturning Shop Estate Planning

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December

2013

A Woodturner"s 2014 Resolutions

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February

2014

Carbide Cutters: Fad or the Future?

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April

2014

More Woodturning Controversy: Mounting Bowl Blanks On A Lathe

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June

2014

Reflective Woodturning

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August

2014

Black Walnut The American Beauty

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October

2014

Food Safe?

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January

2015

Wild Cherry, Another Mid-South Beauty

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March

2015

A Woodturner"s Education

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May

2015

Sand in wood? Fact or Fiction?

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July

2015

Mushrooms, fungal and wooden

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September

2015

Rustic Inspiration

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November

2015

When the Wood Stops Turning

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January

2016

Eastern Red Cedar, Another Love/Hate Relationship

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March

2016

Maple - Confusing but Special

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May

2016

Putting Beetles to work

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July

2016

Cutoffs too good to trash?

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September

2016

The Forgotten Faceplate

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November

2016

The Wood Processing Platform

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February

2017

Rare Earth Magnets

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April

2017

Seeing Clearly At The Lathe

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June

2017

Fractal Burning Worth the Risk?

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August

2017

Fascination with Friction

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April

2011

What is the best Mid-South turning wood?

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July

2009

Poison Ivy

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September

2009

Chain Saw Safety

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November

2009

Making Your Woodturning Life Easier

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January

2010

Why Do People Turn Wood?

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March

2010

Callery Pear (Bradford Variety) - The Woodturner�s Friend

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May

2010

Sand in wood? Fact or Fiction?

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July

2010

Indispensable Cyanoacrylate Glue

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