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Coulee Region Woodturners Links of Interest
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The Emerald Ash Borer
Twitter feed by Robin Usborne@emeraldashborer at Michigan State University, providing information on emerald ash borer.
Wisconsin's emerald ash borer
Internet portal This EAB Resource is brought to you by the
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer
Protection, The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and the
University of Wisconsin - Madison.
More links on the EAB below under the Techniques and
Information category.
Michigan Department of Agriculture: Emerald Ash Borer - Indentification, signs/symptoms, FAQs, Treatment/Control options, lots more.
Techniques and Information
Richard Raffan's youtube channel.Mr. Raffan started a new youtube channel in Dec. 2021 and has been steadily adding new content since.
They're back! Woodturner's Resource This site was made possible by a grant from the American Association of Woodturners and built by turners for turners. A very valuable resource, and the message forums are quite active.
Timber Buyers Network: Information on Forest Management for educating and informing the forest landowner. Including the Forestry Forum, and the Timber Toolbox, online tools for calculating board feet, log volume, and tree spacing. A great site submitted by Charlie Cadenhead.
Wood and Tree Identification
Exotic Wood Pictures: Exotic Wood displayed, described, and identified A non-commercial site focusing on color-correct pictures of exotic woods. Link submitted by Lee Goehring.
Forestry Images An amazing catalog of images with just about everything relating to trees and forestry, including pictures of bark, twigs, leaves of over 180 species. No pictures of the wood itself, but see below for that.
Hough's American Woods An extensive collection of 275 varieties of wood, each with an image showing endgrain, plainsawn, and radial sawn sections. Organized by region.
EEK! Dichotomous Tree Key From Wisconsin Dept. Of Natural Resources Environmental Education for Kids program. Intended for grades 4-8, actually a handy quick reference for identifying common MIdwest trees by leaf, twig, and berries.
Missouri Department of Conservation Identification keys for trees and shrubs of MIssouri. Helpful to anyone in the Midwest.
USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory
Informative Sites by Woodturners
Alan Lacer Alan has an abundance of useful info on his site, especially regarding the skew.
Rude Osolnik The Osolnik
family is keeping Rude's memory alive on this site.
Also, be sure to check out Osolnik Machinery &
Supplies, offering quality products, great prices, and
outstanding service.
Darrell Feltmate's woodturning page "doing you a good turn today" --Darrell has many useful tips for beginning woodturners, including a page on preparing green wood for storage.
Richard Stapley: LaymarCrafts, Hampshire, UK A great site, with lots of tips, techniques, and a huge amount of links to other woodturners and woodturning sites.
Russ's Corner Collected essays on woodturning topics, by Russ Fairfield who passed away on January 4, 2011, at the age of 75. Some very good guidelines on design of a woodturning, and an extensive collection of articles on woodfinishing.
Kevin's Woodturnings If
you're into segmented turning, this is the site for you. Beautiful
examples of his work, plus useful software, and plans for tools and
jigs to aid in the process of segmented woodturning. Ron Kent is the
fellow who publicized the dishwashing soap treatment for
woodturnings. Check out the Techniques section for his essay on
this stabilizing method.
Women in Woodturning
Yvonne Arlott | Dixie Biggs | Marilyn Campbell | Barbara Dill | Cindy Drozda | -e- | Irene Grafert | Beth Ireland | Margaret Kenny-Levick | Bonnie Klein | Joey Richardson | Betty Scarpino | Jennifer Shirley | Brenda Stein | Molly Winton | Andi Wolfe | Lynne Yamaguchi | Donna Zeller | |
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Retail sites
The New Robust Lathe, Lathe Accessories and the Tilt Away Tailstock
Thompson Lathe Tools HANDCRAFTED LATHE TOOLS by Doug Thompson
SmartFlix.com How-To DVDs Woodworking and woodturning DVDs for rent on a weekly basis, using Paypal. Includes Richard Raffan and Del Stubbs, plus several other technical subjects.
Woodturning Tools by John Lea Arizona, Texas, and Delaware Toothpicks plus the Lea Deep Hollowing System components and more.
PolyAll 2000 Repair rotten wood, fiberglass, any porous material in minutes. PolyAll turns into a hard durable plastic, sandable and paintable in minutes.
John Jordan Woodturning: Lathes and Tools (From someone who actually uses them)
Rockler Woodworking and Hardware A great selection of products for the woodworker and woodturner--you can order their FREE CATALOG HERE
The Cutting Edge Tools For Woodturning & Woodcarving, Hand Tools, Planes, Chisels, Sharpening Supplies, Sherline Mini-Machinist's Tools, Books, Videos & Accessories
Grizzly -- Product Selection and Online Ordering
Packard Woodworks, The Woodturner's Source for Woodturning Tools and Supplies.
Serious Lathe: Heavy Duty Gouge Prices
The Woodturners Catalog (Craft Supplies, USA)
Madsens Tools and supplies for the serious lumberjack. Everything you've wanted to know about chainsaw sharpening here.
Periodicals
Fine Woodworking magazine: for craftsmen, carpenters and furniture makers
More Woodturning: Dennis Daudelin is carrying on the publishing of this fine online periodical for Fred Holder, now 12 times a year.
Software for woodturners
Microlathe allows you to draw a profile and then see what it will look like as a turned 3D object viewed from any angle. The download link is thanks to Grant Marshall, a South African woodturner.
Anim8or 3D Modeling program is a useful, and FREE program for previsualizing turned objects. More versatile than Microlathe, here's a quick start tutorial posted by Ken Grunke on Woodturner's Resource forum for creating a lathed object.
WOODTurner PRO, home of the highly acclaimed software for creating segmented woodturnings. WOODTurner PRO is a design tool, a trigonometry wizard, a construction aid and best of all, just plain fun. A free trial version of the software is available.
Regional woodturning clubs and chapters
North East Wisconsin Woodturners (No website) meet mostly at the Boys and Girls Brigade in Neenah on the second Sat of the month, and occasionally at the shop of member Rob Nelson in Winchester. Contact: Greg Kulibert - kulibert at charter.net
Chicago Woodturners Club A very active organization, with approximately 150 members.
Des Moines Woodworkers Association, Inc. Serving Central Iowa Woodworkers of all ages and skill levels
Detroit Area Woodturners This chapter has some talented members, judging by their gallery. And check out their Resources page, containing useful links to instructions for making a venturi vacuum chuck attachment, and more.
Northeast Wisconsin Woodworkers Guild The Guild was formed in May, 1982 to further education and fellowship for area amateur and professional woodworkers, to advance the collective interest of woodworking, to promote good will, and to gain recognition through shows.
Zumbro Valley Woodturners, our sister AAW chapter in Minnesota.
National and global woodturning clubs and chapters
Glendale Woodturners Guild is an organization that provides, within the greater Los Angeles Metropolitan area, a forum for those interested in woodturning. The Technical Tips section provides a wealth of information for turners--check out the PDF file by William Noble on building a vacuum chuck system.
Bulletin boards and forums related to woodturning
AAW Forum The new web-based forum for the American Association of Woodturners.
Woodcentral Message Board: Turning This is probably the most active discussion forum for turners in the web. The place to be!
woodmagazine.com Wood Online-- Woodtworker's webbased forums, including one for woodturning. Check out the home page, A Woodworkers Resource for Woodworking Information
Forestry Forum Need help identifying a tree? Questions about chainsaws? If you have ANYTHING to do with trees, this is the place to be.