About Us

Stuart Batty is a third-generation apprentice woodturner with over four decades of professional turning experience. Under the expert tutelage of his father, Allan Batty, a world-renowned master spindle turner, Stuart began woodturning at 10. By the age of 16, Stuart had become an accomplished production spindle turner and instructor and had gained wide notoriety for his technical proficiency and teaching abilities.

Stuart has taught more classes and demonstrated at more clubs and symposiums than any other woodturner in history and is recognized as one of the world’s most accomplished woodturners.

Through years of production turning and teaching hands-on woodturning classes, Stuart developed a unique style of the European push-cut technique. His style uses fewer tools and simple grinds to produce large-volume cuts without torn grain, low physical effort, and ready-to-sand surfaces. Stuart has pioneered many techniques and terminologies that all woodturners use today, such as the push-cut, pull-cut, negative rake scraping, 40/40, and bottom bowl gouge grinds.

Stuart’s early work included balustrades and newel posts for Royal and Stately British Homes. Stuart’s art pieces are pure turned thin work emphasizing detail and crisp edges made from denser woods. One such piece is in the White House Permanent Collection.

Stuart now focuses on teaching classes to help students improve their woodturning technique. Stuart specializes in taking woodturners to the next level, which includes many of the well-known international turners who wanted to improve efficiency on a lathe.