He removed the blade from a plane and carefully sharpened it on a moistened stone, then passed it over a lathe.
A workstation isn't a lathe, but is it "over-enforcement" to leave the workers' seating, lighting and desk heights uninspected for so long?
Judging him to be an operator who might succeed where so many others have failed and who might finally crack the code, the powers that be attempt to keep Qohen slaving over his electronic lathe by dispatching first a cyber call-girl, Bainsley (Mélanie Thierry), and then Management's computer genius son Bob Lucas Hedgess) to provide him with encouragement and technical backup.
But the highly specialized practice of shaping by lathe has offered more complex possibilities over the last century, and so artists have rediscovered the medium of wood and the wonderful objects that can be made from it by turning, carving, incising, painting and even power-carving with a chain saw.
Skullcapped artisans sweat over ancient lathes while overdressed French tourists haggle over inlaid cedar boxes and silver lamps.
Workshop facilities were also provided, with a range of machine tools, forge, lathe and planer and a separate Easton and Amos steam engine (apparently left over from The Great Exhibition).
The conflict came over the use of the Contamin portrait lathe, necessary in the making of dies both for Longacre in producing the new coins and Peale in his medal business.
For a glimpse of the daily life of Marrakesh, the souks of the Medina are where "skullcapped artisans sweat over ancient lathes," Ms. Wilder wrote, "while overdressed French tourists haggle over inlaid cedar boxes and silver lamps".
Whether you are a writer slumped for hours over a keyboard, a toolmaker stationed for hours at a lathe or a flanker busting his gut for his country, if the result is a triumph, all that perspiration dripping from the brow tastes sweet.
The lathe in the photograph cut the acetates that would cause riots when played over mighty sound systems.
