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Sites mainly giving information, instruction and articles on the techniques and art of woodturning should be suggested here. Individual artisan sites should be submitted to Arts: Crafts: Woodcraft: Woodturning: Artisan Portfolios. Sites of associations, clubs and groups should be submitted to Arts: Crafts: Woodcraft: Woodturning: Associations.

Please note, site offering items for sale should be submitted in Shopping:Crafts:Woodcraft:Woodturning.

Sites offering tools for sale should be submitted in Shopping:Tools:Woodworking:Woodturning

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Find links to sites giving information, instruction and articles on the techniques and art of woodturning. Individual artisan sites found in Artisan Portfolios may also contain articles, techniques and tips, along with a gallery of their work.

Artisan Portfolios

If the main focus of the site is selling items then it should be suggested to Shopping/Crafts/Woodcraft/Woodturning. If the main focus of the site is selling tools and jigs then it should be suggested to Shopping/Tools/Woodworking/Woodturning.
This category contains portfolios and sites of individual woodturners.

Associations

Please suggest only sites dealing with woodturning associations, guilds groups or clubs to this category. Sites selling woodturning products should be listed under Shopping, and general information and galleries about woodturning should be listed under Arts/Crafts/Woodcraft/Woodturning.
Sites dealing with woodturning associations, guilds, groups or clubs.

Events and Symposiums

Please submit your site if you are staging a major woodturning event or symposium.
Sites giving information about major woodturning events, and symposiums.

Ornamental Turning

Please submit sites to this category if it describes the process of ornamental turning, illustrates the art, shows samples of such work, or includes historical articles. These must be the majority of the content of the site. Sites about plain turning should be submitted to Arts/Crafts/Woodcraft/Woodturning. Sites of individual plain woodturners should be submitted to Arts: Crafts: Woodcraft: Woodturning: Artisan Portfolios
This category is for sites dealing with the art of ornamental turning, where highly decorated and configured items of wood are created, either using a rose engine, an ornamental lathe or any other jig that achieves the purpose. It includes sites describing this art from other disciplines, such as watchmaking, and historical information.

Pole and Treadle Lathe Turning

Please only submit sites to this category that fall within the category description.
This category is for sites concerned with any form of non-electrical or non-power driven wood turning. This will include pole, bow, treadle, or bungee. It will include sites on the history and sites giving information on building and using these.

Segmented Turning

Please only submit sites to this category which describe or illustrate this art, or the majority of the site covers this subject. Sites on woodturning in general should be submitted to Arts/Crafts/Woodcraft/Woodturning and sites describing the work of individual woodturners should be submitted to Arts: Crafts: Woodcraft: Woodturning: Artisan Portfolios
This is a category for the branch of woodturning which creates segmented, stave, or laminated turnings. It includes descriptions of the methods employed, details of jigs, computer programs used, the math involved, and illustrations of the process and the finished articles.

Writing Instruments

Please do not submit here if you are a general woodturner.
This category is for all those woodturners who specialize in creating pens and pencils. If your site is selling your pens and pencils please submit it to Shopping/Crafts/Woodcraft/Woodturning/Writing Instruments, not here.

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