How Many Turners in the UK

[desmoengine]

very interesting topic so far.
just as an example of the club to which I am a member ,we have 150 names listed on our book 80% we estimate are active wood turners , only approx 24 are members of the AWGB, detail like this will skew the sums.
I think it would be fair to guesstimate that there are probably 25000 plus woodturners in uk.
dave w

[woodndesign]

It has been very interesting so far. Should we go by Club attendance, I've been in 4 during the coarse of my lifetime as a Turner, currently I'm not with a Club, yet still a paid up Member of the AWGB.

A head count at a venue, this past Yandles, difficult, ticket sales by Nelton, then again we don't all attend... can look like it when it comes to finding parking. Then discount the non-turning family members and the just interested parties ..  ...

For the Forum ..  576 ... most on line 65 .. close at 64 last week !! Should we hold a poll, what % would the turnout be or just guesstimate from the RPT & AWGB Membership !!

The answer, the ball park figure's.. we may never know.

Cheers  David

[hughie]

I tried to work out how many turners in the USA, the difficulty is there's no surveys or national stats to look up. The sale of lathes is a poor indicator as many of us own more than one lathe, at one stage I owned 6 I'm down to two at the moment.