You bet there Charlie.....
I was just observing some of the turnings in the "member's gallery", and it seems very apparent that traditional turning isn't much in vogue. This "traditional turning" is what my focus has always been, and it involves very little, or zero embellishments. Not that there isn't some mighty fine embellishments done off the lathe.....but, it's a stark realization that traditional turning, it seems, is very seldom the main focus of the current lathe turners.
Oh well......just an observation.
-----odie-----