Unique Bowl By Michael Mode - Multi-Color Wood with InlayMichael Mode is a self taught lathe artist, born in Quakertown, PA, in 1946. His first experience of woodturning came in 1973 while watching a Moroccan craftsman using an Arab bow lathe to make chair spindles. A few years later when trying a lathe himself for the first time, his innate ability for woodturning immediately became obvious. His earliest efforts focused on lidded containers created on a foot powered lathe made from an antique sewing