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  • Premier Sign & Trophy Complete banner, printing, engraving and laser engraving service located in Gladeville, TN.

  • North Woods Figured Woods North Woods Figured Woods specializes in the finest pieces of big leaf maple, white oak, fir, Black Walnut, Silver Maple, Black Locust and madrone. Les Dougherty and Susan Curington will work with you to make sure that you get a piece of wood that you can change into a piece of art. Mention that you are a member of the Tennessee Association of Woodturners and receive a discount.

  • Got Wood? Got Wood is a growing company in South Carolina that has been in business since 2005 and specializes in turning stock. They carry most types of domestic woodturning stock.

  • Woodcraft of Nashville Woodcraft of Nashville is a full-line Woodcraft store carrying most anything you need for your woodworking project/hobby-everything from adjustable clamps to work benches. They also carry most of the major woodworking brand machinery.

  • Big Monk Lumber Big Monk lumber is a family owned business run by Pete and Shirley Kekel in Erlanger, KY. They carry a full line of imported exotic woods and each order is individually selected and then packaged and shipped by the most effective method available.

  • John Jordan Woodturning A turner for nearly 25 years, John only sells tools that he uses. He makes his own hollow turning tools, tool handles, double-ended shear scraper, and scraper sharpening jig.

  • Thompson Lathe Tools Doug Thompson hand-crafted tools are made of cryogenically treated powdered metal. He personally shapes, sharpens and inspects every single tool himself. Doug carries a wide variety of designs; V-shaped and U-shaped flutes on bowl gouges, spindle gouges in 3 varieties of flute shapes, and a detail gouge. He will also hand-craft your special order.

  • Lyle Jamieson Lyle Jamieson is a sculptor, instructor and inventor of the Jamieson Hollow Form Turning System located in Traverse City, MI. He is an accomplished teacher of woodturning techniques and has been a demonstrator at AAW national and local chapter symposiums since 1996.

  • Easy Wood Tools Easy Wood Tools produces the Easy Rougher series of carbide cutter woodturning tools that address fatigue, safety and efficiency like no other.

  • Hunter Tool Systems

  • Klingspor’s Woodworking Shop

  • EBOINC EBOINC manufactures a new and unique bowl lathe with many great features. It is a modular system and can be converted to a full size bed lathe at a fraction of the cost of purchasing another lathe.

  • Woody McSander Sandpaper and sanding supplies. Jon Hornback – 513-702-2427, woodymcsander@gmail.com

  • VM WoodworkingWoodturning tools and accessories. – 770-434-9080

  • Woodchuck Lathe ToolsYour Woodchuck Rougher is a tool designed by Kenneth Ferrell a Machinist and former Machine Tool Technology Instructor, who also enjoys wood turning, Carbide tooling has been the standard in machine shops for decades, but the grain structure of that grade of carbide and the angles that were available didn’t work well with wood.

  • Carter Products – Keith Burns. The patent pending, made in the USA, hollow roller system is a captive bar tool for safely turning hollow forms and bowls. The bar is completely captive, which allows the operator to focus on the work and art of the vessel being turned. It incorporates a fully sealed bearing, lubrication free roller system that eliminated drag on the bar, enabling a smoother flowing motion.

  • Century Tree Turnings– Mike Smith and Sean Donahue. All turning blocks are 100% waxed with paraffin and/or candle wax, which severely limits moisture loss, especially thru the end grain. All wood is generally processed as soon as possible after being harvested so it is best to assume all wood be considered green. However, due to the nature of the spalting process, spalted wood will most likely be partially air dried.

  • Rubber Chucky Products – Keith Burns. Rubber Chucky designs, develops and manufactures all of its products in the USA. We strive to develop innovative products to enable the woodturner to hold the workpiece and be more productive. Our motto says it all “Woodturning Made Easier With Innovative Products”.

  • Hannes Tool– JoHannes Michelsen. JoHannes tools are conceived and engineered to be ergonomic and high functioning in all ways. He also carries a line of sanding supplies and lathe accessories including calipers and tool rests.

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