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Welcome to the Stiles & Bates website!
As hobby woodturners and woodworkers ourselves, we at Stiles and Bates woodturning and hardwood supplies have always set out to have a real treasure trove for woodturners and craftspeople from our ever increasing stock of home-grown and exotic timbers and blanks through to lathes, bandsaws and other woodworking machinery, tools, accessories, chucks and finishing products. And we back them all up with enthusiastic and knowledgeable service!
We have dealerships with Robert Sorby, Record Power, Chestnut Products, Planet, Liberon, Craft Supplies, Crown Handtools, Microclene, Banner Hardware, Ashley Iles and others, and will be adding a compressive range from the long established Charnwood machinery and tooling range to our 2008-2009 catalogue.
We compile and publish a FREE Mail Order Catalogue once a year. Our 2007-2008 version (No 8) is available to woodturners and woodworkers all over the UK and will be replaced with version 9 sometime around October 2008.
Robert Sorby ProEdge Sharpening System demo Tuesday 5th August 2008. See our News page for more details. See also the brand new, British made Robert Sorby Patriot woodturning chuck is one
that will excite all woodturners, including owners of Nova and
Supernova chuck as all jaws and accessories are compatible!
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Request our Free Mail Order Catalogue
 The Robert Sorby Patriot chuck. British made.
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Our Online Shop
We like to think that our online shop is an electronic version of our comprehensive shop which nestles among the farm buildings at Upper Farm, but our friendly service remains the same, so do email us if you have any queries and we will do our best to be of help.
Our new facility of asking you to register delivery details will help us process our increasing online orders even more quickly and allow you to log into your password protected account and check progress and past order history.
If you have an queries on our registration process, we hope our Registering FAQs page will answer them all. By popular request we have also added a new Search facility in the online shop. Online orders, postal mail order and walk in customers have increased steadily over the years and although we thought last year was busy, but this past year has been hectic and fun too.
We know that much of this came as a result of your kind references, either by word of mouth or via woodworking and club forums and we do appreciate it. See what our customers say. |
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| Our Courses
Woodturning is a craft which has seen a huge rise in popularity in recent years, and like carpentry and cabinet work, is not just for the boys! It is creative, absorbing, affordable and does not require a huge workshop.
We hold beginner/refresher courses designed to give or refresh the basic skills so you can go back to your own workshop and create beautiful and practical items from simple pieces of wood. For those who have mastered the basic cuts and wish to explore or improve techniques on specific projects, we have a series of one day project courses. The only limit is your imagination!
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Woodturning Courses
Carpentry and Cabinet Making courses
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Our News and About Us pages
We always seem to be as busy as ants working in the shop, processing orders, cutting new blanks and planks, not to mention driving this keyboard to keep the website up to date, but it's fun. We have also updated our About Us page so do take a look.
Our shop opening hours: Monday through Saturday 9 until 5. Close Sunday and Bank Holidays.
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The Robert Sorby ProEdge Sharpening System
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We hope you enjoy browsing our new website and welcome practical suggestions on ways in which we might make it even better! Do email us. |
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