The Vendor Files

The Vendor Files

-965Being a Com­pendi­um of Providers of Tools, Sup­plies, Books, Pat­terns and Material

Ven­dor names are click­able links, unless oth­er­wise noted.

Retail Sup­ply Houses

Beaver Dam Decoys  Cort­land, OH — tools, sup­plies, books, decoy rough­outs, turn­ings, lumber

Belch­er Carv­ing Sup­ply   Tipp City, OH — tools, sup­plies, books

Carve4Less   Estes Park, CO — Dis­count­ed and close­outs on books, tools and kits

Chip­ping Away Wood­Carv­ing Store    Kitch­n­er, ON, Cana­da — Carv­ing tools, sup­plies, books, videos

Chris­t­ian J Hum­mul Co.   Tools, sup­plies, books and videos, lumber

The Duck Blind Hick­o­ry Cor­ners, MI — carv­ing and art supplies

EC Tools Online Sara­so­ta, FL — tools, sup­plies, cutouts, etc

Feath­er Ani­ma­tion Wood Carv­ing Sup­plies, Sar­nia, Ontario — tools, sup­plies, bird feet, eyes, etc

FishCarver.com   Novi, MI — tools, sup­plies, pat­terns, rough­outs, class­es, videos etc for fish carvers

Gene Webb Wood­carv­ings — Townsend, TN — Tools, sup­plies, kits, DVD’s, class­es and more

Greg Dor­rance Co   Attle­boro, MA — tools, books, rough­outs, etc

Jan’s Carv­ing Stu­dio,  Bow­manville, ON, Cana­da — tools and supplies

Klingspor’s Wood­work­ing Shop, North Car­oli­na — tools, sup­plies, etc

Lit­tle Shavers Wood­carv­ing Sup­ply   Seat­tle, WA — tools, sup­plies, etc

MDI Wood­carvers Sup­ply  Bar Har­bor, ME — tools, sup­plies, books, patterns

Moun­tain Wood­carvers  Estes Park, CO — carv­ing tools, sup­plies, books. material

Moun­tain Her­itage Crafters  Blue­field, VA- wood carvers com­plete tool and book shop.

Old Texas Wood­carvers  Spring, TX — carv­ing tools, sup­plies, etc

Qual­i­ty Carv­ing Sup­plies   Venice, FL — com­plete line of wood­carv­ing supplies

Rock­ler Wood­work­ing and Hard­ware  Med­i­na, MN — cat­a­log sales and local stores — carv­ing and gen­er­al wood­work­ing tools, sup­plies, lum­ber, books

Smoky Moun­tain Wood­carvers Sup­ply  Nawger Nob, Towsend, TN — carv­ing tools, sup­plies, books, material

Stoney Point Decoy Carv­ing Sup­ply   Sal­is­bury, MD — tools, wood, paint

Sug­ar Pine Wood­carv­ing Sup­plies  Lebanon, OR — carv­ing tools, sup­plies, books

Tools For Wood­carvers  Far­well, MI — (for­mer­ly Leather­Plus) A com­plete line of wood carv­ing sup­plies at com­pet­i­tive prices.

Tree­line  Pro­vo, UT — The wood craft spe­cial­ists — carv­ing tools, sup­plies, sticks, etc

Vic Kirk­man Orig­i­nals  Raleigh, NC — Carv­ing tools, sup­plies, books. mate­r­i­al for the wild­fowl carver

Wal­nut Hol­low   Dodgeville, WI — Carv­ing and wood­burn­ing tools, unfin­ished wood prod­ucts, clock­ing sup­plies and more

Wind­sor Wood­carv­er Muse­um   Wind­sor, ON, CA — The Muse­um Shop car­ries a wide range of tools, sup­plies and books; pro­ceeds help sup­port Muse­um operations

Wood Carver’s Store and School   St Louis Park, MN — Tools. mate­r­i­al and classes

The Wood­craft Shop  Bet­ten­dorf, IA — Wide selec­tion of books, tools, sup­plies — Down­load­able cat­a­logue on web site.

Wood Carvers Sup­ply, Inc   Engle­wood, FL — A wide selec­tion of books, tools, supplies

Wood ‘N Wild­craft   West­bank, BC — carv­ing tools, sup­plies, books, classes

Wood­chip Shop   Des Moines, IA — Carv­ing tools, sup­plies, books. material

Wood­chips Carv­ing Sup­plies   Port Moody, BC, Cana­da — Carv­ing tools, sup­plies, books. material

Wood­craft Sup­ply Corp   Park­ersville, WV — cat­a­log and local stores — carv­ing tools, sup­plies, books, lumber

Wood­carvers Ware­house   Farib­ault, MN — wood­carv­ing tools, books, kits, wood and supplies

Wood-n-Feath­ers   Mer­rickville, ON, CA — carv­ing sup­plies, tools, etc

Tool Man­u­fac­tur­ers and Distributors

Hand, Mal­let, and Pow­er Tools, Pyro Tools, Dupli­ca­tors, Work­hold­ers, Light­ing, Etc

Some of these manufacturers/distributors sell tools and sup­plies direct­ly from their web sites — oth­ers only through autho­rized retail­ers. For those man­u­fac­tur­ers The Carver’s Com­pan­ion sug­gests you con­tact the sup­ply hous­es list­ed above.

Abranet & Tools  Roton­da West, FL — Abranet abra­sive sheets, tools and supplies

Ash­ley Iles Tools (UK) — Wood­carv­ing and turn­ing tools made in the old tradition

Arbortech Wood­work­ing Tools — grinder mount­ed cut­ting tools and pow­er chis­el tools

Bad­ger Air­brush Co — air brush­es, acces­sories, com­pres­sors, paint  check this connection

Bai­ley’s  Lay­tonville, CA — Chain saw carv­ing supplies

Blue­Max Light­ing   Jackson,MI — home of Blue­Max full spec­trum lighting

Cape Forge Tools  Day­ton, ME — tra­di­tion­al hand-forged carv­ing tools

Col­wood Wood­burn­ing Tools   Farm­ing­dale, NJ — Wide vari­ety of tips (includ­ing fish detail­ing tips}, replace­ment and fixed tip han­dles, books, cas­es and more…

Copy­carv­er   Novi, MI — The wood­carvers’ copy machine — plans for a build-it-your­self dupli­ca­tor for woodcarvers

Cre­ative Tech­nolo­gies Inc   Casper, WY — home of the Rotary Chis­el, a car­bide cut­ter  check this didn’t load

Delta Machin­ery — band saws, table saws, thick­ness plan­ers, join­t­ers and oth­er qual­i­ty shop equipment

Diefen­bach­er Tools  St Louis, MO — tools by Stu­abi, Two Cher­ries, Diefenbacher

 Dura-Grit   Toron­to, ON, CA — Long last­ing car­bide coat­ed high-speed rotary tools, 1/4″ drill bits, hand sand­ing tools and sand­ing disks

The Endura Engrav­ing Sys­tem — The Endura Engrav­ing Sys­tem — the one high speed engrav­ing sys­tem built to last for a life­time of use …

Fan Carvers World  Fen­nville, MI — Tools to sup­port your fan-bird carv­ing habit

Flex­cut Tools   Erie, PA — home of Flex­cut carv­ing tools

Fore­dom   Bethel, CT — home of Fore­dom Pow­er Tools and accessories

Frank Mit­ter­meier, Inc   Bronx, NY — US dis­trib­u­tor of Das­tra Tools

GRS   Empo­ria, KS — Graver­max pow­er engrav­ing sys­tems, tools and training

Hartville Tools   Hartville, OH — wood­work­ing equip­ments, acces­sories, supplies

Helvie Wood Carv­ing Knives — Tim­ton, IN — Helvie knives made by Rich Smithson

Hen­ry Tay­lor Tools   Sheffield, Eng­land — Wood­turn­ing and Wood­carv­ing tools

High­land Hard­ware   Atlanta, GA — wood­work­ing tools, acces­sories, sup­plies change to High­land Woodworking

Craft Sup­plies Ltd   Fara­day Close, Har­worth, Not­ting­hamshire, UK — tools, sup­plies, materials

Jer­ry-Rig   West Cald­well, NJ — The Jer­ry-Rig 360 degree rotat­able work positioner

Knotts Knives   Sal­is­bury, MD — knives, Dust Demon

Lee Val­ley Tools & Ver­i­tas   Ogdens­burg, NY — wood­work­ing tools, acces­sories, supplies

Log Home Store   McMin­nville, OR — chain­saw carv­ing tools and sup­plies, books

Mas­ter­carv­er   Engle­wood, FL — Man­u­fac­tur­er of Mas­ter­carv­er flex­i­ble shaft machines, Micro-Pro micro-motor tools, Wood­hog wood grinders, Hand-forged tools, Mal­lets, Hawk and Eagle Burn­mas­ter wood burn­ing (pry­ro­graph­ic) tools. Pow­er tools are avail­able in 110V or 230V. Deal­er­ships avail­able worldwide.

Nib­s­burn­er   Col­orado Springs, CO — Nib­s­burn­er pyro and wood­burn­ing products

OCC Tools — Dora. MO — Qual­i­ty knives and gouges by Mike Shipley

PJL Enter­pris­es   Brow­erville, MN — Opti­ma wood carv­ing and pyro­graph­ic tools from SMC, as well as the Safe Air dust col­lec­tion  PJL did not load on last check

Pre­ferred Edge Knives   Maple Ridge, BE, CA — high-qual­i­ty hand­made carv­ing knives and supplies

PROX-Tech   Hick­o­ry, NC — Prox­xon motor­ized carver

PS Wood Machines   Bethel Park, PA — band saw blades, scroll saws and blades, scroll saw and intar­sia patterns

Raz­er­tip Indus­tries   Mar­tinsville, SK, Cana­da — pyrog­ra­phy and carv­ing sup­plies, dust man­age­ment systems

Robert Sor­by   Sheffield, Eng­land — Wood­work­ing Tools Specialist

Saburr-Tooth   Ster­ling Heights, MI — Car­bide coat­ed rotary tools: 1/4″. 1/8″ and 3/32″ shank tools, sand­ing sleeves, carv­ing sheels and Buzz-outs

Stubai Direct  — US Dis­trib­u­tor of Stubai palm and mal­let tools

Ter­rco, Inc   Water­town, SD — sin­gle and mul­ti­ple spin­dle duplicators

Tools For Wood­carvers  Far­well, MI — (for­mer­ly Leather­Plus) A com­plete line of wood carv­ing sup­plies at com­pet­i­tive prices.

Tri­ton Man­u­fac­tur­ing   (AU) home of the Tri­ton Super­jaws, a portable work hold­er with rub­ber faced and tim­ber jaws (also avail­able from US distributors)

Tur­bo Carv­er   Fed­er­al Way, WA — Tur­bo Carv­er high­speed rotary tool and accessories

U.J. Ramel­son Co.   Newark, NJ — Amer­i­can-made wood­carv­ing tools

Vac-U-Shield   Philadel­phia, PA — for vir­tu­aly dust-free pow­er carving

ViceTight Carv­ing Fix­ture   Mari­posa, CA — home of the ViceTight carv­ing fix­ture — designed by a carv­er for carvers

War­ren Cut­lery   Rein­beck, NY — wood carv­ing tools — inter­change­able blade and han­dle sets

Wood Carvers Sup­ply, Inc   Engle­wood, FL — Man­u­fac­tur­er of Mas­ter­carv­er flex­i­ble shaft machines, Micro-Pro micro-motor tools, Wood­hog wood grinders, Hand-forged tools, Mal­lets, Hawk and Eagle Burn­mas­ter wood burn­ing (pry­ro­graph­ic) tools. Pow­er tools are avail­able in 110V or 230V. Deal­er­ships avail­able worldwide.

Wood-Carver.com — home of the Gem­i­ni Uni­ver­sal Carv­ing Dupli­ca­tor 

Wood Sup­pli­ers -

Lum­ber, Rough­outs, Band­sawn Blanks, Kits, Boxes

Lum­ber, Bark, Dia­mond Willow

Amer­i­can Bass­wood Carv­ing   Noblesville, IN — Bass­wood, But­ter­nut and East­ern White Pine did not load

Be So Good Wood   Billings, MT — Cot­ton­wood bark and dia­mond wil­low from Alex Bis­so in Montana

Beth­le­hem Olive Wood  Brown­wood, TX (US con­tact) olive wood carv­ing and turn­ing blocks

Cop­per­head Road Log­ging and Lum­ber (AKA Joe’s Carv­ing Wood)  Pal­isade, MN north­ern MN hard­woods — bass­wood, buter­nut, cedar, more

Exot­ic Lum­ber   Annapo­lis, MD — Domes­tic, import­ed, and exot­ic timbers

Fan Carvers World   Fen­nville, MI — White cedar blanks for fan-bird carving

Hard­woods of Michi­gan   Clin­ton, MI — com­mer­cial lum­ber supply

Hard­wood Con­nec­tion   Sycamore IL — hard­woods, cus­tom glue-ups, etc.  Click the link or email to contact@thehardwoodconnection.com

Hei­necke Wood Prod­ucts   Cum­ber­land, WI — qual­i­ty carv­ing lum­ber and rough­out dubli­cat­ing service

Itas­ca Wood Prod­ucts   Deer Riv­er, MN — spe­cial­ist iin thin craft wood and carv­ing wood

Krantz Wood Sales   For­est Lake, MN — qual­i­ty north­ern bass­wood — email to jkrantzATusfamily.net or call 651–464-5632

Ken Laninga Dia­mond Wil­low — Dia­mond wil­low from north­ern Alber­ta, Canada

Louisiana Swamp Prod­ucts  LA — Cleaned and kiln dried cypress knees, sunken cypress, driftwood

North­east­ern Scale Lum­ber Co   Methuen, MA — com­plete line of scale hard­woods for carv­er, mod­el builders, etc

Ocooch Hard­woods   Rich­land Cen­ter, WI — carv­ing stock, intar­sia lum­ber, unsur­faced hard­wood lumber

Texas Wood­crafts   Katy, TX — Texas grown wood for carv­ing and turning

Slim’s Wood­shed  Har­mo­ny, MN — Lum­ber, sawn blanks, tools, carv­ing museum

Full Cycle Wood­works   Rogersville, TN — bass­wood lumber

Tupe­lo Tim­ber  Brant­ford, Ontario, CA — Tue­p­lo and White Cedar

Rough­outs, Band-sawn Blanks, Kits, Box­es, Roughout & Dupli­ca­tion Services

Phil & Vic­ki Bish­op   Elk City, OK — Rough­outs designed by CCA mem­ber Phil, as well as Vick­i’s pop­u­lar rough­outs are now avail­able from Steve Brown — click the link

Steve Brown Wood­carv­ing   Freeport, FL —  Col­lide-A-Scope kits, carved Pen kits, rough outs by CCA mem­bers Phil and Vic­ki Bish­op, books, CD’s and more

Box­es N Such   North Roy­al­ton, OH — Box­es, plates, etc

Hei­necke Wood Prod­ucts   Cum­ber­land, WI — qual­i­ty carv­ing lum­ber and rough­out dubli­cat­ing service

Gene Webb Wood­carv­ings — Townsend, TN — Turn­ings, rough­outs, canes, wood and more

Stu Mar­t­in’s Wood­carv­ing   God­dard, KS — rough­outs and videos by Stu Martin

Mas­ter­w­erkes   Gar­land, TX — Cus­tom pro­duc­tion ser­vices for woodcarvers

Bob Reit­mey­er Whit­tler Sup­plies   Pitts­burg, PA — Cub & Boy Scout neck­er­chief slide blanks & instructions

Moore Rough­outs - a wide vari­ety of rough­outs designed by var­i­ous carvers and dupli­cat­ing services

Floyd Rhadi­gan   Saline, MI — Rough­outs and band­sawn blanks, kits  add Fan­ta­sy Wood­carv­ing to name

Ger­ald & Barb Sears   South­west City. MO — Rough­outs designed by CCA mem­ber Ger­ald Sears

Harley & Midge Schmit­gen   Blue Earth, MN — Rough­outs designed by Harley & Midge Schmitgen

Greg Wilk­er­son Wood­carv­ing   Bran­son, MO — Rough­outs of Greg’s designs of Native Amer­i­can 

Pat­tern Port­fo­lios, Cus­tom Pat­terns, Projects Books & DVDs/CDs

Art Designs Stu­dio — Lora S. Irish pat­terns, col­lec­tions, e‑projects, e‑books, etc  for carv­ing, pyrog­ra­phy and oth­er crafts

Clanbadge.com Celtic Knot Font for Mac & PC at Clanbadge.com — free knot­work pat­terns available

Susan L. Hen­drix - Utah —  Books and CD for carv­ing wood­spir­its, San­ta ornaments

LSIrish.com —  Projects and tuto­ri­als by Lora S. Irish

Nora Hall Carv­ing Designs — Pat­terns from Nora Hall

Woodcarving Shirts, Aprons, Gifts, Etc

Carvers’ Com­pan­ion Shop — T‑Shirts, sweat­shirts, carv­ing aprons, mugs, mouse pad, greet­ing cards and more — designs can be cus­tomized with your club or stu­dio name

Just4Yucks — Fun­ny wood­carv­ing designs on shirts and oth­er items

Wood­work­ing Gifts — Shirts and oth­er gifts — wood­carv­er, chip­carv­er, decoy carv­er 

Magazine and Book Publishers, Book Sellers

Some pub­lish­ers sell direct­ly and some do not. The Carver’s Com­pan­ion sug­gests you make your pur­chas­es from book sell­ers list­ed here or from one of the many qual­i­ty carv­er sup­ply hous­es list­ed above.

Carv­ing Mag­a­zine   New­ton, NJ — This pub­li­ca­tion, unfor­tu­nate­ly, has gone out of busi­ness.  Web site is still there but not much is happening.

Chip Chats — The mag­a­zine of the Nation­al Wood Carvers Association.

For an index of select­ed arti­cles in Chip Chats click HERE; for an index of select­ed pat­terns click HERE.

Wood Carv­ing Illus­trat­ed   East Peters­burg, PA — For an index of recent WCI issues click HERE.

Wood­carvers Gazette — The mag­a­zine of the British Wood­carvers Association

Fan Carvers World  Fen­nville, MI — Sal­ly and David Nye have almost sin­gle-hand­ed­ly pre­served the art of fan-bird carv­ing in North Amer­i­ca, and have pub­lished two how-to books on the topic.

Fox Chapel Pub­lish­ing   East Peters­burg, PA — Carv­ing & wood­work­ing books books.

Guild of Mas­ter Crafts­men   Eng­land — pub­lish­ers of Wood Carv­ing Magazine

Lin­den Pub­li­ca­tions — Wood­work­er’s Library and Wood­work­ers Newsstand

Ster­ling Pub­lish­ing — wood carv­ing and oth­er books

Schif­fer Books — pub­lish­ers of wood carv­ing and oth­er books

Taunton Press — pub­lish­ers Fine Wood­Work­ing mag­a­zine and a vari­ety of books

Wild­fowl Carv­ing Mag­a­zine — pub­lish­ers of Wild­fowl Carv­ing Magazine

Mered­ith Corp — pub­lish­ers of Wood Mag­a­zine and oth­ers 

Mold­mak­ing and Cast­ing Sup­plies & Services

Alu­milite Cast Mate­ri­als — mold mak­ing and cast­ing materials

Cast­craft — infor­ma­tion­al books and videos about casting

Envi­ro­mold — down­load­able Art­molds’ cat­a­log for mold mak­ing and cast­ing materials

Lone Tree Creek LLC   Olivet, SD — Mold­mak­ing and cast­ing services

Smooth-On Mold­mak­ing and Cast­ing Mate­ri­als — Mold mak­ing rub­ber to cap­ture fine wood­carv­ing detail and cast­ing resin for accu­rate reproductions

 

 Last update — 11–6‑15

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