Some my of favourite woodturning and pyrography sites
Woodturners
http://www.living-wood.co.uk/ Mike
Abbott pole lathe turner, green woodworking
Kostas Gourvelos One of the growing
band of ace woodturners in Greece.
Brian Partridge SECB and AWGB stalwart.
Dave Peebles - Ohio Dave has produced
an excellent personal site with good photo's (and info on how to take them!)
Tom Pockley SECB member, teacher
and demonstrator.
Chris Nunn Nice site by
a hardworking professional woodturner
Ted Renn Superb woodturning
Witham woodcraft Tony Witham
is the woodturner and his wife Christine is a talented artist. They are to be
found demonstrating turning and pyrography at all the major venues in the UK
and he demonstrates turning here at the Peter Child workshop at least once a
month. He is a very active and hard working member of the AWGB.
Robin Wood Bowl turning
on a pole lathe
Turned Wood.co.uk Good site from
a local woodturner
Useful info for woodturners
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~pwguild/a-lth_kr.htm
Build your own lathe
Roughing
out bowls from wet wood Info on making bowls from logs etc. By Roger Austin,
North Carolina.
http://www.customwooddesign.com/turninggreenwood-1.html
Turning wet wood
Tips, Techniques and Projects from
the Central New England Woodturners website
Excellent
source of information. Un missable! from Steven D. Russell.
More Tips, Techniques and Projects "Around
the Woods". Very interesting site with loads of excellent homebrew content.
Intro to
woodturning For beginners - good effort by Brian Clifford
Lui's links Lots
of woodturning and woodworking links
Laymars Crafts Lots of very interesting
hints and tips.
Woodturning information and
reference site By Alan Green, Dorset, England.
Fred Holder and "More
Woodturning" magazine
Various articles and projects
From the "Online Woodturning Community"
Tom Rettie's ancient
lathes article Medieval lathes and home made wooden treadle lathes
Clubs and woodturning organizations
AAW. The Association of American Woodturners
The Association of Woodturners of Great
Britain (AWGB)
SECB This is the Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire
branch of the AWGB. This woodturning group meets here in Yeldham on the second
Tuesday of every month.
The Association of Pole Lathe Turners
Cambridge Woodturners
The Cambridge branch of the AWGB. This woodturning group meets in Perne Road
Cambridge.
Commercial
sites
Robert Sorby, Sheffield. One of
the most attractive and interesting sites for HSS woodturning tools - and more
- from this innovative and well established tool manufacturer
Henry Taylor Tools, Sheffield.
This traditional manufacturer offers a vast array of turning and carving tools
made to the very highest standards.
Pyrography
Vale WoodCraft Pyro
blanks for sale
The Toyman Pyro blanks for sale
Woodworks Craft SuppliesPyro blanks and more
Tracey Anniston Lots of her pictures
and her story about how she got started in pyrography. Some good tips for beginners.
A nice example of a personal website.
Janie Le'Kay. Her personal pyro site.
Lisa Raby. Her personal pyro site.
Bob Neil's website Bob Neil
is a well known demonstrator and teacher. Some of his work is shown in the gallery.
He is known for his dramatic and sometimes colourful designs on turned wooden
platters but there is much more to see . .
Joanne's home page Jo is a very
talented artist and designer and it shows on a great variety of excellent images
on her website. Well worth the download time and don't miss the tagua nut gallery!
Beginners should take note of the range of tones on her pyrographic works -
giving realistic depth to the picture. So many pictures are just two dimensional
patterns, but pyrography is capable of much more.
The
Pyro Cafe Gallery. This is one of the liveliest and most interesting pyrographic
websites. Mixo Sydenham has a very impressive list of pyrographic links. (Temporarily
the link is to Mixo's exhibit in the E Museum until I can find his new website
believed to be www.pyroart.org.)
The E Museum of
Pyrographic Art
Probably the most extensive site on the web devoted to pyrography. An incredible
amount of effort and care has gone into collecting the information shown here.
Galleries, history, equipment, hints and tips. Essential viewing!
Richard Withers Richard does portraits,
calligraphy and much else.
http://www.woodland-turnery.co.uk
Pyrography/woodturning courses and pyrography commissions done to order. Near
Pontypool, Gwent
http://sprankle.com/photogal.html
World class bird carving
The Caning Shop and Gourd
Pyrography The Gourd Pyrography Book described. Even if you are not particularly
interested in gourds the marvellous designs and descriptions of innovative pyrographic
methods will inspire you
Any bad or out of date links? Want to add something? Please tell me!