The caller was burly, genial Arvid Hanson, a gifted craftsman who helped Tom build the pilot models of many of his inventions.

The 21st century has seen Somers's transformation from an observational essayist into a science fiction writer of no small talent, "a gifted craftsman" with a "funky wit."

Scarfaced Charley was also a gifted craftsman, designing an elegant typeface for the phonetic transcription of the Modoc language.

If you doubt that Ives the experimenter was also a gifted craftsman, listen to the First String Quartet, written when he was a sophomore at Yale.

This Madame Carroll and this Monsieur Dubois have found a gifted craftsman," said Pepe angrily, "he is capable of masterpieces, and they have him making curios!

The Shakers were superbly gifted craftsmen, creating furniture, basketry, iron and tinware, fabrics and their famous oval boxes, as well as many other artifacts of everyday life.

It is a very small minority specialist market and Europe brings itself into disrepute by delegitimising, by banning, by forcing out of business, a small number of very entrepreneurial and gifted craftsmen.

From about 1895 Wilson designed metalwork, church plate and furnishings, jewellery and sculpture, becoming a gifted craftsman in the Arts and Crafts Movement.

The scribes of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament were extraordinary storytellers and gifted craftsmen of narrative, but their tales were presumed not to be of their own invention.

Apart from anything else, Barford is a meticulous technician and a gifted craftsman.