Emily  Ford
​SheTurnsWood

Emily Ford  better known as Sheturnswood has been captivated by captive rings since 2015. She took up turning specifically to learn to make captive ring baby rattles because she had just had a new baby boy, who she felt deserved a very special hand made toy that could last for years. Not long after she turned her first rattle she fell in love with the art she began including bowls, ornaments, tops, pens, various forms of jewelry and art pieces. 

Shortly after she started turning she created an instagram page to show off her unique works, and you can really see her enchanting personality come through in each of her projects, the rest as they say is history. Sheturnswood has found her passion and hardly a day goes by Emily isn’t found out at her lathe covered in sawdust with a smile on her face, dimple to dimple! She lives in Clearfield, Utah with her husband, 4 children, two dogs, two cats and two lathes, and she still puts just as much heart and soul into her projects as the day she gave that special first rattle that started it all, to her son.

Mike  Gerakios
​American  Wood  Importers

American Wood Importers, LLC is a family-owned company based out of Los Angeles County, California. Being a small, family-oriented business gives us the opportunity to go above and beyond when it comes to customer support and product quality.  It also allows us the opportunity to get to know our customers on a personal level, which helps us provide unique solutions to a wide variety of needs across the Country and abroad. We care deeply about the environment, and we only work with trusted supply partners to ensure we play no part in worldwide deforestation.  The reason we source nearly all of our wood from Costa Rica is that it is the most environmentally-conscious country on Earth.  Our supply partners in the region know how important it is to us that we are environmentally-friendly, and they share our passion for sustainable harvesting practices.

Scott  Hampton
Hampton Woodturnings

Michael  Hardin
Stadium  Pen  Blanks

As a woodworker for over 20 years and turner for 13 years, Stadium Pen Blanks was founded in October of 2018 as an off-shoot of Hardin Penworks. I had recently found some pen blanks from a few popular stadiums, but then the Boston Red Sox won the World Series. From a single Fenway Park stadium seat, Stadium Pen Blanks was born.
Since then SPB has acquired material and blanks from 120+ stadiums for 160+ sports teams, 17 US Navy Ships, historic buildings, and culturally significant pen blank material.

Kate  Harrow
Bullseye  Turning  Supply

Kate is a storyteller, a maker and the founder of Bow & Harrow Workshop, Bullseye Turning Supply, and the SoCal Turners Expo. She has a background in theatre & design - as well as being a former Imagineer - which led her woodworking to have an emphasis on using materials that have their own story to tell. She focuses on using woods reclaimed from filming locations, urban lumber, and HempWood.

Savannah  Harrow
Bullseye  Turning  Supply

Savannah Harrow is a member of Bullseye Turning Supply, Bow & Harrow and the iconic Harrow Family. She is also the event manager for the SoCal Turners Expo. Sav learned to work with resin during the pandemic and fell in love with the creative nature. She is primarily inspired by music, which is why her blanks are named after songs. Not to say that she has synesthesia, but it might be something like that.

Fun fact; her least favorite blank seems to be a Top 3 Best Seller. 
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When she's not casting, she is a dancer coordinator and production manager for live events. She adores her dog, Simba, a strong whiskey sour and a good bowl of pasta.

Jim  Hinze
Hinze  Pen  Company

Jim has been making pens for more than 15 years. He started out as a self taught woodworker, learning as much as he could and then sharing that knowledge with others. 

Justin  LaRose
JL  Crafted

Justin has loved skateboards and skateboarding since he was 10 years old. Now he takes broken and used skateboards which were skated so hard they broke and recycle that beautiful and colorful hardwood into new and useful hardwood items and projects. Skateboarders put all of their energy and focus into landing tricks on this wood when it was a skateboard. It's a shame to see all of that energy and history go straight to the landfill once it breaks. Justin goes around to skateboard shops and parks to collect broken skateboards so they can be transformed into new things and that soul and energy in the material can live on.

Elyce  Longazelle
Starry  Night  Resins

Elyce is an elementary teacher by day and a resin artist at night. She loves color and is inspired by photography and nature. Elyce is a mom, doctoral student, and coordinator of controlled chaos at pen central.

Big  John  Mahoney
Street  Tree  Revival

“I’m just a tree honky bucking trees in the urban forest and creating some tree-fiti”

Big John aka "Lil Paul Bunyan" runs Street Tree Revival, where they are making every effort to save trees from ending up in landfills. When trees need to be removed from the Urban Forest, Street Tree preserves their natural beauty and also limits carbon emissions by salvaging trees lost during storms, disease, or normal senescence and recycling this wood into usable raw lumber, live edge slabs, logs, and cookies.Their urban wood offers a story unlike any other, as they’ve been salvaged from our streets… A true Street Tree Revival.

Sam  Muro
​Muro  Drums

Sam Muro, the founding craftsman behind Muro Drums, has been playing drums since the age of 13. A self-proclaimed "gear nerd" and fearless autodidact, he taught himself to refurbish drums after becoming dissatisfied with the finish of his first set. He began freelancing, working on friends' drums and repairing used sets for profit. His work led him to a position as lead craftsman at an established custom drum company that used pre-made drum shells, but he knew he'd someday take his craftsmanship a step further. ​With nearly a decade of refurbishing, crafting and customizing drums under his belt, Sam took up woodturning in Boston. Under the mentorship of renowned Harvard instructor Alan Hark, he mastered the traditional techniques he needed to begin turning his own handcrafted drum shells.

Lou  Sarg
Lou  Sarg  Woodwork

Lou Sarg is an Urban Wood Artist and Woodworker. She draws inspiration from both her wood heritage and memories of traveling the world. She feels honored to have learned to whittle in the Catalan Pyrenees where she studied the Principles of Permaculture Design. Her live Edge Mountain Scenes remind her how fortunate she was to have experienced the magical essence of nature and the road, and they keep her accountable to the promise she made to those magical mountains to live a sustainable life. Every Mountain Scene is made with hand curated pieces of urban wood and assembled with gratitude, love, and respect for the dynamic landscapes she hopes to visit again and the ones she has yet to see. Lou's mission is to showcase the beauty of her local urban canopy, one piece at a time.

Chad  Schimmel
​Turners  Warehouse

Chad has been on the lathe for well over 20 years, first learning to turn in junior high school. In the last 10 years he has specialized in pen turning, resin work, and segmenting, leaving his corporate job in 2013 to sell his art full time, and in 2016 opening Turners Warehouse, a turning supply store in Gilbert, AZ.

Curtis  O.  Seebeck
Turntex,  LLC

TurnTex, LLC is a small, full time family business located in Central Texas and the primary source of income for a family of three and two full time employee.  My name is Curtis O. Seebeck and I am the owner.  I take extreme pride in my workmanship and believe that nothing but the best quality, customer service, and support will suffice and believe in treating my customers with respect, better than I would expect to be treated. In addition to innovation, I am very active and interested in teaching stabilizing and casting around the country.  I have taught hundreds of people from around the world in my shop as well as at numerous clubs, schools, and symposiums.

Bet  ShArry
The  Wooden  Dragonfly

Hi, my name is Bet Sharry-Veilleux. 

I've been woodworking for about 45 years. It started as a hobby in 7th grade and just grew from there. I love to Scrollsaw, make boxes, and of course turn pens and bowls. I've recently started my own business after working for one of the biggest retail woodworking supply companies for 18 years. 
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I love teaching the craft to all ages. I have taught classes to children for Home Depot all the way to classes for adults at Disney and Rockler woodworking. ​

David  Tilson

I have been a self-taught woodworker for over twenty years now, having learned to work wood by reading books and magazines, then building skills and trying out different techniques by making small projects and sample pieces. Since I started out with a very small shop and only a couple of small power tools, I initially concentrated on making small, carved boxes with hand tools, often using wood gathered from local street and park trees that had been cut down. My shop has grown, and I now have a nearly full complement of power tools. I still enjoy using hand tools most of all, and, like the craftsmen of the Arts and Crafts movement of the early 20th Century, I have found a balance between using electrical and muscle power to produce tight-fitting joinery and to get glass-smooth surfaces quickly. My shop space has grown, and so have many of the projects I work on, which now include furniture, cabinets and built-in furniture, accessories, boxes, and lathe-turned items such as bowls, boxes, and fine writing instruments. I still like to use locally harvested wood, but I often find myself running to the lumberyard instead of the lumber stack on cabinet and furniture projects, due to the small dimensions of lumber available from local trees.

Greg  Wilson
HempWood

Greg Wilson is the CEO of Fibonacci, LLC and inventor of HempWood®. Wilson began his journey with the building industry over 18 years ago. With years of experience, Wilson hopes to bring a sustainable hardwood alternative to the market.