A third generation apprenticed woodturner with over 40 years of experience. Stuart Batty is recognized as one of the world’s most accomplished woodturners.

Through years of production turning and teaching hands-on classes, Stuart developed a unique style of the European push-cut technique using fewer tools and simpler grinds to totally eliminate torn grain, requiring less physical effort, and enabling rapid, repeatable cuts. Stuart has pioneered many of the 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 work includes balustrades and newel posts in Royal and Stately British Homes and a piece in the White House Permanent Collection. He is now focused on helping students improve their woodturning technique. His methodology does not focus on product, but on correct techniqueses and process. It’s a set of universal skills that can be used to make any workpiece on the lathe.