The tools can be reshaped easily for the task at hand.
A skilled turner can produce a wide variety of objects with five or six simple tools. However, the wood lathe is still used for decentralized production of limited or custom turnings. Industrial production has replaced many of these products from the traditional turning shop. Items made on the lathe include tool handles, candlesticks, egg cups, knobs, lamps, rolling pins, cylindrical boxes, Christmas ornaments, bodkins, knitting needles, needle cases, thimbles, pens, chessmen, spinning tops legs, spindles, and pegs for furniture balusters and newel posts for architecture baseball bats, hollow forms such as woodwind musical instruments, urns, sculptures bowls, platters, and chair seats.
In pre-industrial England, these skills were sufficiently difficult to be known as "the mysteries of the turners' guild." The skills to use the tools by hand, without a fixed point of contact with the wood, distinguish woodturning and the wood lathe from the machinist's lathe, or metal-working lathe. The operator is known as a turner, and the skills needed to use the tools were traditionally known as turnery. Like the potter's wheel, the wood lathe is a mechanism that can generate a variety of forms. Woodturning is the craft of using a wood lathe with hand-held tools to cut a shape that is symmetrical around the axis of rotation.
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