
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.

Have Fun With Ebonizing
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Wood Spin printed in Turners Talk
June
2009

Fascination with Friction
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Article in AAW Publication
April
2011

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

What is the best Mid-South turning wood?
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Wood Spin printed in Turners Talk
July
2009

Out of a Limb: Natural-Edge Bowls
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Article in AAW Publication
October
2013

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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September
2010

Simple Holiday Embellishments
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November
2010

Burn Lines
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January
2011

A Wooden Wine Bottle
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March
2011

The Good Woodturning Demonstration
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May
2011

A Plea For Millimeters
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July
2011

If I Were The Woodturning King: More About Safety
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September
2011

Best Tools for the New Woodturner?
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November
2011

The Dark Side Of Woodturning
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January
2012

Mounting Wood On The Lathe
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March
2012

11 Cent Pens
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May
2021

Black Locust
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July
2012

Three Special Shop Friends
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September
2012

Hickory? or is it Pecan?
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November
2012

Woodturning, Sex, and Money
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January
2013

Persimmon, The American Ebony
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March
2013

Rodney Dangerfield Woods
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May
2013

A Plea For Millimeters (Reprint July 2011, XXVI)
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July
2013

Drying Wood (Reprint August 2011, XXVII)
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September
2013

Stick"n Burn From The World of Gourds
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November
2013

Spalting: Nature"s Gift to Woodturners
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January
2014

Glues: A Sticky Subject
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March
2014

Dogwood Will Break Your Heart
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May
2014

Why Do People Turn?
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July
2014

To BEE a Carpenter
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September
2014

Many road to Rome
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December
2014

Yellow Bellied Sapsucker, Friend or Foe?
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February
2015

POP QUIZ ! What Have you learned?
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April
2015

Cicadas
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June
2015

The Woodturner"s Notebook
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August
2015

Obey the Six Laws
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October
2015

11 Cent Pens
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December
2015

Fire In The Woodturning Shop
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February
2016

John C. Campbell Folk School A Camp for The Curious
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April
2016

Poison Ivy: A Plant To Avoid
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June
2016

Disappearing Woods
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August
2016

Why Turn Wood?
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October
2016

The Much Maligned Scraper
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January
2017

What's the Right Way to use Friction Polish?
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March
2017

Woodturning, Sex, and Money
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May
2017

Science in the Shop
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