Around the world there are dozens of organisations providing services similar to those provided by the AWGB, for their local woodturning communities. The links on this page give you the opportunity to tour the world of woodturning from your desktop.
- Our sister organisation in the US, with whom we have close reciprocal links is the American Association of Woodturners. whose website provides lots of useful information for those wishing to establish links with the US scene.
- Closer to our UK home, we can find the Irish Woodturners Guild.
- The Register of Professional Turners
- The society of Ornamental Turners www.the-sot.com
- The Worshipful Company of Turners of London www.turnersco.com
- The Daniel Collection of Showcasing a wide variety if woodturning www.thedanielcollection.com
- The New Zealand National Association of Woodworkers, www.naw.org.nz
- The Woodturners Association of Finland (e-mail only), have many contacts with the UK.
- For those with an interest in restoration the British Antique Furniture Restorers’ Association also have their own website.
- From Australia we have the Woodturners Society of Queensland
- The Bodgers Page. The Association Of Pole Lathe Turners. http://www.bodgers.org.uk
- French Association of art woodturning on wood http://www.aftab-asso.com
- Israel Woodturning Association, newly established group of amateur woodturners. www.israelwood.org
- The British Woodcarvers Association www.britishwoodcarversassociation.co.uk
- Woodworking and Machinery Online Magazine http://www.inside-woodworking.com/ News and Articles on Woodworking, CNC, Workbenches and Sharpening.
- A wonderful collection of pictures and details of ancient woodturning lathes http://homepages.ihug.com.au/%7Edispater/turning.htm
- A site specifically set up to help and inform wheelchair woodworkers www.wheelchairwoodturners.org.uk
- For everything to do with Lathes www.lathes.co.uk
- The Montgomery County Woodturners (of Maryland USA) http://montgomerycountywoodturners.org
- Peninsular Woodturners, Victoria, Australia www.pwguild.org.au
- The British Woodturners Association, supporting woodturning companies in the UK www.britishwoodturners.co.uk
- The Woodturners Workshop. A useful resource for all woodturners. www.turningtools.co.uk
- The Woodturners Resource. A collection of articles etc. www.woodturnersresource.com
- Wood identification database www.wood-database.com
- Raymod Molinari’s segmented turning guide