Woodland Hills Woodturning Instructors?

PiperPat · Nov 24, 2004

Hi,

Can someone direct me to a good woodturner in the Woodland Hills, California area that I might learn some skills from?

Thanks!

Pat.

arbud · Nov 24, 2004

Turner

Pat, I suggest that you go to the "local chapters" icon of this site's home page and select a turning club close to you and contact them. There are many gifted turners in CA, I'm sure that a club close to you will know of onesuch.

Will ya be turnin' chanters, lad?

PiperPat · Nov 28, 2004

Maybe

I want to just take it one step at a time and learn the skills. That will keep me happy for some time I'd imagine.

Thanks for the advice,

Pat.

Big Dog · Jan 11, 2005

Pat, I am a turner in Oxnard, CA. I am also a member if the Channel Islands Woodturners. My backgroung is in furniture construction but over the last couple of years I have taken up woodturning. I would be glad to help you in any way I can.

Robert

Elizabeth Woodturner · Aug 8, 2005

There's Steve Dunn in Carson California. He is really good and gives classes.
He is also good friends with Stuart Batty, who is one of the very best. When Stuart is in California, Steve arranges classes who want to learn from Stuart. I'll look for his number today and pass it on to you.

Chris Wright · Aug 8, 2005

RE: Steve Dunn

Hey Pat,

I currently do a one on one class Saturday mornings. I already have 1 student but he had to drop his schedule down due to workload, so I too have some time I could help. I'm in L.A. near the 5-10 interchange. There's a club in Glendale and one in Channel Islands that would be able to offer some good assistance & mentoring as well.

As for Steve Dunn's information, I host a webpage for him about his shop/school: http://imprintwebdesigns.net/SteveDunn/.

By the way Elizabeth, Stuart has taken up residence in So. Cal. now, so he's around all the time

Local clubs should find it easy to arrange demos. He is working on a new website for his work and such: http://www.stuartbatty.com

Elizabeth Woodturner · Aug 8, 2005

Thanks for the info. It is going to be great for us in California to have Stuart Batty here. You must be near where I had my factory (off the 10 on Alameda). Such a shame I didn't know about you before we closed.

Chris Wright · Aug 11, 2005

actually...

Now that I think about it, we may have met before if yours is the same shop I am thinking of. If so, we met when I was demonstrating for General at the 2003 AWFS fair in Anaheim. I was living in Santa Clarita at the time, so I wasn't so close, but yes I am now about 10 minutes or so away from I-10 and Alameda.

Elizabeth Woodturner · Aug 12, 2005

I remember you from the show. You got really good at turning REALLY FAST.
Welcome to Los Angeles

penmaker · Aug 16, 2005

Pat, I hope you get this. Check out our website www.channelislandswoodturners.org

This will give you a lot of information of our club. You will find that we have an excellent mentoring program where you can benefit from one on one lessons from a number of our turners.

You will also find me listed as the club librarian along with my email. If you have any questions at all let me or anyone else know.

In the recent past we have had Stuart Batty, Allan Batty, Bonnie Klein, Andi Wolfe and others demonstrate for out group. This year we still have scheduled J. Paul Fennel and Chris Stott...

We would love to see you.

Russ