The more serious and skilled amateurs in this field now turn out pieces of furniture which rival the work of professional cabinet makers.

Professionals and skilled amateurs were initially skeptical of the new technology.

Twin-scaling is practiced by professional growers and skilled amateurs to increase bulbs that would naturally propagate very slowly, or to speed up the production of desirable cultivars.

Where the Biglin brothers were accomplished professionals, the Schreibers were skilled amateurs.

Highly skilled amateurs often spend months constructing a single shell or device.

This organization consisted in part of professionals and in part of skilled amateurs.

The realitiy is that there are a great many skilled amateurs and plenty of decidedly 'amateur' working pros out there.

"Desperate skilled amateurs," Renner said.

"It keeps us skilled amateurs, rather than pros," Mr. Hirshberg said.

Retired players visited and played as well as highly skilled amateurs, pros from Miami Jai-Alai and various other professional frontons operating at the time.