This is an oral history of the artist Bob Stocksdale conducted in 1996 by Harriet Nathan, Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office at the Bancroft Library, University of California
Published with an introduction by Sam Maloof in 1998
Indiana farm life influences, maintaining machinery, tools, woodworking; World War II Conscientious Objector camps, fire-fighting, turning bowls, building boxes; Berkeley house and workshop, learning the craft; worldwide search for fine and rare woods and buying, drying; planning the bowls, use of tools, lathe and gouge; pricing pieces, showing work, association with galleries, museum collections, private collectors; discusses peers, crafts organizations, Association of Wood Turners; marriage to Kay Sekimachi and "marriage in form" work.

Letters to and articles about Stocksdale, a few photos of his work.