Note: Mid-Wales Woodturners Club does not endorse any of the companies, institutions or individuals in the links below. The links are provided solely for convenience and any interaction with or use of the companies, institutions or individuals is entirely at your own risk.
Woodturning Suppliers
The following suppliers sell woodturning tools, blanks and related workshop machinery. Those with significant ranges are in bold.-
- Axminster Tool Centre
- Charnwood
- Exotic Hardwoods – Native and exotic hardwoods
- G&S Specialist Timber
- Hope Woodturning
- Oaklea Woodcraft
- Ockenden Timber
- Poolewood Machinery
- Prokraft – kits and jigs
- Rutlands – online only, mostly own branded
- S.L. Hardwoods
- Snainton Woodworking – Closing down April 2023 🙁
- Stiles & Bates
- Taylors Mirfield
- Timberline – Native and exotic hardwood
- Tuff Saws – highly recommended for bandsaw blades
- Turners Retreat
- The Polishing Shop – specialist in polishing and abrasives
- The Turners Workshop (The Northumbrian Pen Co Ltd)
- The Turner’s Workshop – Shop run by Richard Findley
- The Woodturning shop – Shop run by Martin Sabin-Smith
- Westcountry Machinery
- Why-Aye Wood
- Wigley DIY
- Woodart Products
- Woodwise UK – Native and exotic timbers
- Yandles
Tool & Finish Manufacturers
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- Ashley Iles Edge Tools Ltd
- Chestnut Products
- Createx Paints
- Crown Hand Tools
- Fiddes
- Golden Paints
- Hamlet Craft Tools
- Hampshire Sheen
- Henry Taylor
- Hunter Tools UK
- Jo Sonja Paints
- Liberon
- RDG Tools
- Record Power
- Robert Sorby
- T & J Tools
Woodturning Organisations
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- Association of Woodturners of Great Britain
- Register of Professional Turners
- American Association of Woodturners
Online Woodturning Forums
Professional Woodturners
There is a list of professional turners on the Register of Professional Turners and a general list of AWGB members websites some of whom are professional turners. Here is a shortcut list to some of them.-
- Nick Agar – now in the US
- Nick Arnull
- Frans Brown
- Emma Cook
- Richard Findley
- George Foweraker
- Andrew Hall
- Mick Hanbury
- Mark Hancock
- Paul Hannaby
- Sue Harker
- Steve Heeley
- Simon Hope
- Phil Irons
- Paul Jones
- Tobias Kaye
- Tracy Owen
- Chris Parker
- Gary Rance
- Guy Ravine
- Joey Richardson
- Colin Simpson
- Les Symonds
- Les Thorne
Other Websites
- Chronos
- Clocks and Barometers
- Craft Supplies (UK)
- Home Improvement Woodworking Projects
- Megaquartz (Clock Parts)
- Peter Child Woodturning – no longer in business but has some useful information
- Neodymium Magnets
- Hegner UK
- Isaac Lord
- Tilgear
- Wonkee Donkee