Educational and community websites

Information galore for luthiers.

How woodworking joints are set out, made, and where they are used.

Keith Cruickshank's video blog for wood art and wood craft enthusiasts

This site is all about woodworking handsaws, There has been a resurgence of interest in woodworking with hand tools and consequent proliferation of high quality handtool makers. When the powered circular saw became popular, the availability of quality handsaws decreased. Now there are a number of companies dedicated to re-capturing the high quality of early saws.

I've been a professional woodcarver, author and teacher of woodcarving for nigh on 30 years, and am a member of the Master Carvers Association. I bring my enthusiasm, experience and knowledge of carving to this website: helping you learn to carve, or develop good, competent woodcarving skills. I want to support your carving path and progress, and rejoice in the beautiful carvings you can create.

Woodkit.net is an online woodworker's articles and resource project. Our focus is on articles intended for the beginning woodworker using mostly hand woodworking tools. Our articles are gathered and adapted from popular woodworking textbooks published before electrical tools were common. These articles convey the basics of woodworking and promote the mastery of woodworking with hand tools.

This site is for oud builders, players and collectors interested in construction and repair of the oud.

Violin maker

I have been a luthier since 1974. I make lutes and guitars, restore older instruments and do repairs for local musicians.

The woodworking school that focuses on traditional craftsmanship with hand tools. Started in 1978 by Drew Langsner. In many Country Workshops woodworking classes, instruction begins by splitting a freshly felled hardwood log, a traditional method sometimes called “green woodworking.” Air-dried, milled lumber is also used when appropriate. Project work is often done with a drawknife and spokeshave while seated at a shaving horse. We also teach the skills of wood turning, wood bending, carving and hewing with axes and adzes.

Presented here are some of the projects & jobs I've done for my family & paying customers. I hope you find something that interests and/or inspires you. If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask, I'll be happy to help where I can.

Woodworking forum

Woodturns.com is the online woodturning community dedicated to promoting woodturners and the art and craft of woodturning.

Robin Wood is an internationally respected woodturner and spooncarver. He was introduced to traditional woodland crafts whilst working as a National Trust forester clearing and replanting woodlands in Kent after the 1987 storm.

A manual pole-lathe is the classic centuries old method used to turn green (unseasoned) wood with little effort and without the noise, dust, or danger involved with modern mechanised turning. At the beginning of the 1990's, in the early days of my retirement, I made my first pole-lathe from scrap timber for next to nothing, then I went on a three day course at Newcastle to make a more refined one.