Woodturning Forums?

[Tom Albrecht]

Please don't be offended, but are there other forums where woodturners hangout?

 

[Don O. Jr.]

Forums

Hey Tom, no offense taken. Where ever you can learn more about woodturning the better. Most woodworking forums have turning sections. Some Googling around should find several. A few I am familiar with are WoodCentral & SawMill Creek. Woodturners Unlimited, LumberJocks, Woodturners Resource, WoodturningOnline, and I'm sure there are lots of others. Good luck and have fun.

 

[Bill Boehme]

There are a bunch. I post in several of them and just lurk in others. Some have almost no activity and a few are moderately busy at times. I have noticed that many of the same names show up at most of the forums that I visit. I would guess that less than 2% of woodturners participate in online forums. The others are probably are too busy turning to sit in front of a computer and talk about it. Overall, online forums aren't as active as they were years ago. According to some studies this is true for essentially all forums regardless of the focus. I think that Facebook and similar social media are taking over everything. You can probably get a lot of hits by Googling "woodturning forum". I don't know how you go about finding woodturners on Facebook because I have been trying to avoid getting into one more reason to sit in front of a computer. I retired so that I wouldn't have to spend as much time in front of a computer, but so far it doesn't seem to be working.

 

[Pete Blair]

Please don't be offended, but are there other forums where woodturners hangout?

My favourite is WOW(World of Wood) but I frequent SawMillCreek, woodturners unlimited and here.

 

[Richard Coers]

Just don't say anything bad about Grizzly machines on Sawmillcreek. First you get your hand slapped, then you get banned if the hand slap isn't effective in altering your comments.

 

[Tom Albrecht]

Just don't say anything bad about Grizzly machines on Sawmillcreek. First you get your hand slapped, then you get banned if the hand slap isn't effective in altering your comments.

Thanks for the warning--- I personally won't use the crap from Grizzly.

 

[Justin Stephen]

My favourite is WOW(World of Wood) but I frequent SawMillCreek, woodturners unlimited and here.

The same ones I read plus Lumberjocks. Couple of additional but unrelated points:

1. It does seem, in recent years, that overall discussion forum traffic has dropped substantially. I suspect some of it has simply migrated to the various Facebook groups related to woodturning. I peruse several of those as well.

2. WOW is great for seeing other people's work, but it isn't a very good place to learn too much about woodturning since most of the discussions (the "family talks" section) over there are not about techniques and what not. The best practical discussions are often the comments associated with the pictures posted where the creator can sometimes provide technical insight into how their piece was created.

 

[Brian McInturff]

Don't forget WoodCentral.

 

[john lucas]

I love Woodcentral, this place and WOW. I get the best turning information Here and Woodcentral. You do get to see remarkable work on WOW although you do get to see a lot of good work here and often it's the same work as on WOW.

 

[John Torchick]

There is a section on woodturning and lathes on www.routerforums.com but threads on that part are few and far between. FWIW, I stay with this forum for wood turning.

 

[Douglas Ladendorf]

So I'm not the only one who's hand has been slapped at SMC? have to agree with the comments above. I like Woodnet, lurk and have started posting a bit at Woodcentral, but I have to say there are some regulars HERE who I really respect. Very generous and knowledgeable folks and I always seem to learn something. Things do seem to be quiet sometimes, but it's nice that a discussion about other forums can be had here.

Doug

 

[David Hill]

Haha--funny about SMC, doesn't surprise me though.
Another forum that's friendly is Woodbarter---it's not all selling or trading wood.
Agree with Bill & others--I'm pretty stingy with my "free" time in terms of sitting in front of a 'pooter, (I'm not retired yet) as my avocation often goes dark to dark.

 

[Gerald Lawrence]

If you want to check facebook just do a search for "woodturner" or "wood turner" and you will get several hits. Most of these are good lots of newbies on these, but some real good turners and carvers also. Also there is a group , kinda small but active called Woodworking Friends Proboards by William Young. Oh by the way in both facebook groups and proboards you will have to be accepted (or invited) .

 

[Brad Bistritz]

woodturnersresource is another good one to check out once in awhile

 

[Col Smith]

Very good site

Another one I visit most days ....http://www.woodworkforums.com/index.php

Turners from around the world on here.
Covers all types of woodwork especially turning & logging

Nearly forgot this one...http://woodbarter.com/#woodturning.12

HTH
Col

 

[Justin Stephen]

There is also a woodturning subreddit on reddit.com that gets 5-10 new threads a day or so:

https://www.reddit.com/r/turning/

 

[Brian McInturff]

Yeah, Woodbarter is one I checkout every few days. Great site!

 

[Mike Peace]

I don't think anyone mentioned woodnetdotnet

 

[robo hippy]

Well, I have never had problems over at SMC, and I do say bad things about Grizzly. I don't trash them, but most of the time my comment is that their industrial grade machines are good, but the hobby level tools are hit or miss, and most over there tend to agree. I am on Woodcentral, Woodnet, and Woodturner's Resource. All forums seem to have their 'characters'. There is an Australian woodworking forum, and one in the UK as well. Some nice folks over there. Funniest thing I learned from the UK one was from a thread titled, 'Need help with a priest'. Found out that is what they call the 'fish wacker' because it administers 'last rites'...

robo hippy

 

[Bill Boehme]

... Funniest thing I learned from the UK one was from a thread titled, 'Need help with a priest'. Found out that is what they call the 'fish wacker' because it administers 'last rites'...

Is that the same thing s a wood carvers mallet? Our Texas fish are well behaved, so we don't need to whack them. However, sometimes they are ambivalent about whatever enticements that I might toss their way.

 

[Gretch Flo]

There is an Australian woodworking forum, and one in the UK as well. Some nice folks over there. Funniest thing I learned from the UK one was from a thread titled, 'Need help with a priest'. Found out that is what they call the 'fish wacker' because it administers 'last rites'...

robo hippy[/QUOTE]

I have used a priest for alaskan salmon before putting on stringer. Gretch

 

[Charlie Knighton]

preist//shaman//holy man

fish wacker///wacker

is anyone familiar with devils tower in Wyoming........doing research on the temples in malta......there is another devils tower but offshore of malta.......only thing it is an island now, but before two different ocean level rising it was a tower sort of like devils tower on the south of malta it was offset from the island on a peninsular.......2 different temple sites were built on the mainland overlooking this site HAGAR QIM & MNAJDRA

http://cartruts.com/pages/prehistoricshoreline.htm

no trace of wackers in fact no weapons besides knifes are found in early stuff

funny a priest would be associated with wacker.....but looking at our aspiring presidents we really do need some fish wackers

"But the Temple people were more than just good engineers and architects. They may well have been the custodians of great wisdom and knowledge as well. Certainly they knew how to live peacefully. None of their constructions of over 2000 years of Maltese occupation show any apparent defensive or offensive purpose in their design. They may have been among the last great civilizations that flourished without major conflict or war with other men. There may be much more to discover and learn from them"

 

[Bill Boehme]

... fish wacker///wacker ...
no trace of wackers in fact no weapons besides knifes are found in early stuff

funny a priest would be associated with wacker...

Maybe it is because something is "out of whack"

You're not likely to find an eccentric or crazy priest.