emjay wrote:East Midlands, probably Nottingham or South Derbyshire
Thanks to all who have enlightened my untutored ears:) I caught "moosket" for musket, of course; but the rest was beyond me!
Anyway I watched the whole series. On the whole this is quite amazing. It would be absolutely impossible on a pole lathe. A pole lathe turns between centers and he is boring out one end of a cylinder. The fact he uses an ordinary spindle gouge (or ladyfinger gouge as I learned to call it) leaves me in awe. I would still use a steady rest

. For us ordinary mortals this makes boring out much easier; but Mr Webb is so good he compensates without your noticing. The end of his workpiece is "running out" (i.e. is eccentric) a whole mm or more but he catches center with the gouge and scoffs at a steady (although I am sure he knows they exist!) Maybe steadies were not used much in the 17th century. If so Mr Webb shows you what you can do without a steady-rest. Maybe in the 17th century they were not widespread, have to do some research on that. BTW the piece is held in a screw center as I suspected. A real long screw center, which minimizes runout. But it still runs out, and that is where skill comes in.