Wizardry in Wood

The prizes given by the Worshipful Company of Turners to the winners in their Turning Competitions have been generously supplemented by sponsors.  Like the Company, the sponsors want to foster interest in and appreciation of fine turning.  The support they give is greatly appreciated, by practising turners and by the Company. This year's sponsors are:

Ashley Iles (Edge tools) Ltd.  Makers of high quality woodturning and carving tools.

Rustins Ltd.  Manufacturers of a wide range of finishing products including Rustins Danish Oil used to finish the huge Wassail Bowl in which the Master of the Worshipful Company of Turners travelled on the Company's float in the Lord Mayor's show 2003.

GMC Publications.  Publishers of Woodturning and a wide range of other magazines covering different aspects of working with wood.

Craft Supplies.  Suppliers of a comprehensive range of products both by mail order and direct from their premises in Derbyshire, mainly for the woodturner, including native and exotic woods.  The company also runs courses in woodturning in both Derbyshire and the South of France.  They also run an annual exhibition which includes demonstrations by some of the world's leading woodturners.

Highbury Leisure.  Publishers of The Woodturner, The Woodworker, Practical Woodworking and Routing magazines.

Liberon Waxes.  Manufacturers of a wide range of finishing products.

Axminster Power Tool Centre.  Suppliers of an enormous range of woodworking equipment both by mail order and from their premises in Axminster.  They also organise courses, and an annual woodworking exhibition which attracts a great many woodworking enthusiasts.

Record Power.  Suppliers of a wide range of quality woodworking machinery including lathes, bandsaws, dust extractors etc.

Sorbys.  Manufacturers of high-quality woodturning tools and other woodworking equipment.

Association of Woodturners of Great Britain.  Association of woodturners, galleries, collectors, wood and tool suppliers promoting woodturning.