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The links below have been recommended by our members.

AWA have a well designed website with a large gallery. Their catch phrase of "Let the chips fly" sums up their highly motivated approach. This is a site which deserves a visit to see how it's done.

This is a small group of woodturners based out on the furthest edge of Canada, on the Avalon peninsula of Newfoundland. Surpisingly for such a remote place, they have a strong club membership, go on, take a look at how the Newfoundlanders do it.

This cornish website doesn't just have one gallery, it has lots of individual galleries for its members. Take a look at the articles page and you will find some interesting reading.

American woodturners, from Kansas City, host this site with a wide range of interesting content. They have all their monthly newsletters, past and present stored online. This provides a library of information about the club and woodturning.

NFWG is an umbrella organisation representing woodturning clubs in the UK. It encourages communication between individual clubs, writes a newsletter and also arranges exhibitions, competitions, seminars and provides public liability insurance for its members.

The West Pennine woodturners organise their own woodturning competition every four months, they choose a subject and get turning, which means the members need to be keen. Some of the competition entries are shown on their web site.

Nick Agar's large-scale, multi-textured turned wood sculptures have earned him a reputation for producing highly individual, beautifully crafted art.

Yvonne turns out work of an extremely high standard, at the age of only twenty-two she has been accepted onto the Register of Professional Turners. Her current designs feature piercing and the use of twists.

Michael Brolly is a woodturning sculptor. Take a look at his work it's amazing. This is a good place to look for inspiration for your woodturning projects.

Jimmy is based in the north east of England. He runs tuition workshops for classes of two to three people per class. His courses are for beginners, intermediates or can be tailored towards specialist projects. I spent two days at Jimmy Clewes's workshop and had an extremely enjoyable and rewarding time. If you want to know more about my time with Jimmy have a look in the postcard section on the Activities page.

Richard Hooper's woodturning is abstract sculptural, his work relies on an appreciation of geometry, mathematical models, astronomy and structures within civil engineering and architecture.
Richard is also Associate Professor in Fine Art and Design at Liverpool Hope University.

Tobias Kaye is a professional woodturner famous for his turned sounding bowls.

Paul, who is also an acupuncturist, just has a love for all things wood-based and it definitely shows.

Gary is considered one of the fastest and accurate woodturners in the UK and is one of only a few whose income comes solely from woodturning.

Each piece of Bob's work, including bowls and plates, is an exploration of line, pattern, texture, tone and colour.

Pablo Nemzoff adds pyrography to his woodturnings with striking results.

These two are a husband and wife team living and working within Pembrokeshire National Park, Wales, UK. They run woodturning classes at their workshop set amongst the beautiful scenery of South Wales.

This Norwegian woodturner works in the local timbers of Aspen, Birch and Elm with lots of photos in his gallery.

Eduardo Sarmiento is a left-handed woodturner based in Peru. He turns the wonderful and exotic local woods on a homemade lathe.

Andi Wolfe is a botanist by day and a woodturner in the evenings. Her work focuses on the use of surface enhancements that employ botanical motifs.

David is a professional woodturner, who has a fantastic gallery and workshop located on the edge of the Black Mountains.

Malcolm Zander's pierced work looks just like lace, you have to see it to belive it.

General interest

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A site dedicated to pole lathes and green woodturning, with an interesting links page.