Tools

Hida Tool & Hardware, Berkeley. 510-524-3700. www.hidatool.com Japanese hand tools, kitchen knives, and Bonsai gardening tools. (Jim Voos)

Woodline/Japan Woodworker, Alameda. 800-537-7820. www.japanwoodworker.com Japanese Hand Tools. Good finishing and sharpening supplies. (Jim Voos)

Soko Hardware, San Francisco 415-931-5510. A variety of Japanese tools and planes, some of which are not available from other suppliers. (Terry O'Donnell)

Luthier's Mercantile International. Healdsburg. 800-477-4437 http://www.lmii.com/. Tools and woods for instrument makers. (Terry O'Donnell)

Robert Larson Company. San Francisco. 800-356-2195. www.rlarson.com (Terry O'Donnell, Arnie Champagne)

Woodcraft Supply. Dublin. (925) 875-9988. (Mike Cooper)

Woodcraft Supply. San Carlos 650-631-WOOD. Our own Eric McCrystal owns this store.

Rockler. Pleasant Hill 925.521.1800 Pleasant Hill. (Steve McCarthy)

C.B. Tool & Supply, 90 Karina Court, San Jose, (408)436-0707 or 1-800-662-9858. www.cbtoolgroup.com/cbtool.html Conventional but large woodworking tool supply company. (George Bosworth)

Tooland. San Carlos. www.tooland.com Focuses a little more on tools for contractors than on fine woodworking, but offers much wider variety than the Home Depot style of store. (Jamie Buxton)

Lumber

MacBeath. Largest hardwood retailer I know of in the Bay area. Branches in Berkeley, San Jose, and SF. Berkeley branch also stocks Baltic Birch and Finn-ply plywoods. www.macbeath.com (Jamie Buxton)

Plywood and Lumber Sales. Tired of plywood from big-box stores that's curled up like a potato chip? Buy from a store that sells to cabinet shops. PALS has three stores in the Bay Area, and has a good selection of flat hardwood sheetgoods. They also sell hardwood lumber. www.pals4wood.com. (Jamie Buxton)

Baker Milling. Mills, air-dries, and sells local hardwoods in rough-sawn slab form. Gilroy. www.bakerhardwoods.com (Jamie Buxton)

Peter Lang. Mills, dries, and retails local hardwoods. Santa Rosa (1-866-557-7522). Lang's primary business is breeding and showing exotic animals, so you can find yourself buying madrone while a giraffe peers over your shoulder. www.peterlanghardwoods.com (Jamie Buxton)

Southern Lumber, 1402 S. First St., San Jose, 408-294-1487, www.southernlumber.com. Large selection of domestic and imported hardwoods, mostly S4S and expensive. (George Bosworth)

Aura Hardwood Lumber, 210 Phelan Ave., San Jose, 408-275-1990. Most hardwoods. Stock fluctuates widely. (George Bosworth)

Global Wood Source. Northern Hardwoods bit the dust, but some of the folks from there have opened this store. www.globalwoodsource.com. (Neal White)

Handloggers. They're now in Richmond. They have the usual hardwoods at competitive prices, and also have some less-common woods -- for instance Santos Mahogany, Raintree, and Jatoba. www.handloggers.com (Jamie Buxton)

Groff & Groff. Lumberyard in Pennsylvania with high quality cherry. Even with freight charges, they are price competitive with Bay Area dealers. www.groffslumber.com (Jerry Robinson)

Whitethorne Construction mills and dries native hardwood in Humboldt County. www.whitethornconstruction.com

Van Arsdale Harris Lumber specializes in West Coast softwoods, in cabinet-quality wood, not the construction stuff from the big box stores. They're in San Francisco, not far from Candlestick. www.vanarsdaleharris.com (Jamie Buxton)

Sharpening

Sartor Saw Works. 220 Bayshore Blvd, SF 94133 415.282.6093. (Jamie Buxton)

The Carbide Shop is no longer in business in Redwood City. However, they have a pickup arrangement at Woodcraft San Carlos. Every Tuesday they pick up your dull tools from Woodcraft, and return them sharpened on the next Tuesday. (Jamie Buxton)

Standard Saw. 181 10th St. Oakland, CA 510-832-0856 (Mike Cooper)

Bay Area Carbide. 1843 East Street, Concord, CA 94520 (Mike Cooper)

Books

Builders Booksource. A bookstore for architects and builders. It has the largest woodworking section I've encountered in the Bay area. Berkeley. www.buildersbooksource.com (Jamie Buxton)

William Stout Architectural Books. A terrific small shop packed with interesting books. They specialize in architecture, design, and graphics. Don't miss the basement, where much of the wood stuff is. San Francisco. www.stoutbooks.com (Jamie Buxton)

Tree Surgeon and Sawyer

Blair Glenn's primary business is Saratoga Tree Service, in Campbell. 408 866-7200 www.saratogatreeservice.com . He also has a band mill and turns some trunks into lumber. If you're taking down a big tree and want to build furniture from it, he's a good place to start. His lumber stock depends on what trees he's encountered recently. I've seen ash, walnut, pear, redwood, valley oak, and live oak. (Jamie Buxton)

Schools or courses

Woodshop at Palo Alto High School, 650-329-3752, www.paadultschool.org. Beginner classes and woodshop availability on semester basis. (George Bosworth)

Woodshop courses at Sequoia High School in Redwood City. 650.306.8866 www.adultschool.seq.org (Mike Roth)

Woodworking Technology courses at Laney College, particularly those of Jay Van Arsdale. http://laney.peralta.cc.ca.us (Bill Mannix)

Woodworking courses at The College of the Redwoods. http.redwoods.cc.ca.us This program, founded by James Krenov, has produced many of the country's finest craftspeople. It also has shorter courses for people who are not full-time woodworkers. (Bud Ruby and Arnie Champagne)

Wood courses at the Crucible. www.thecrucible.org The Crucible is mostly known for metal work, but has some wood courses too.

Courses by David Marks. www.djmarks.com You may remember David from a talk he gave at BAWA in 2003. He also has a TV show. He now teaches courses in his studio.

Randall Museum. www.randallmuseum.org Courses for children and for adults. Our own Mike Bray teaches there. (Mike Bray)

Woodcraft and Rockler. These retail stores, listed above in the Tools section, often offer short woodworking courses and demonstrations. For current offerings, go to their national web sites and drill down to the local stores.

Courses by John McCormack. http://www.johnpmccormack.com/Site/Upcoming_Classes.html (John McCormack)

Shop space

The Sawdust Shop offers a very well-equipped wood shop for use by its patrons. www.thesawdustshop.com. (Craig Colvin)

Galleries/museums/inspiration

Gallery M. A gallery specializing in studio furniture and fine woodwork. www.gallerym.net Half Moon Bay.

Recent BAWA speakers and hosts

Steve Smith. www.woodrestoration.com Steve produces glues for repairing damaged wood.

The Craftsman Home. www.thecraftsmanhome.com. Sells antique and reproduction Craftsman furniture and home decor.

Roger Heitzman. www.heitzmanstudios.com. Roger designs and builds custom furniture.

Keith Stephens. www.woodworkerssource.net Keith imports and sells hardwood, and is particularly interested in sustainable forestry.

Jamie Buxton. www.jamiebuxton.com. Jamie is a BAWA member, and designs and builds custom furniture.

Lowes. Loews is one of the largest builder stores in the country.

Berkeley Mills. . They manufacture finely crafted furniture.

Michael Cullen. www.michaelcullendesign.com Michael make gorgeous furniture.

Ejler Hjorth-Westh. www.mendocinowoodworking.com Ejler makes beautiful furniture, and teaches in the College of the Redwoods woodworking program.

Greg Zall. www.gregzall.com Greg does remarkable marquetry and furniture, and teaches at the California College of Arts and Crafts (www.ccac-art.edu).

Hock Tools. Ron Hock makes high-quality blades for hand planes. (http://www.hocktools.com/)

Don Naples. Our own Don Naples invented and sells a sharpening machine (www.woodartistry.com).

David Marks. David has a show on TV, and makes fine furniture. (www.djmarks.com)

Arques School of Traditional Boat Building. Building and teaching about building wooden boats. (www.arqueschl.org)

Kevin Fryer. Kevin makes spectacular harpsichords (www.kevinfryer.net)

Dan Stalzer. Dan makes Appalachian-style chairs in Ft Bragg, and teaches how to make them. woodwman@mcn.org

Brian Condran. Brian makes beautiful furniture. www.crfinefurniture.com/condran.html

The Sawdust Shop. Our own Craig Colvin The Sawdust Shop, which provides woodshop time on a membership basis. www.thesawdustshop.com

Jared Rusten. Jared builds furniture in San Jose. www.jrusten.com/index.php

Debey Zito. Debey designs new furniture in the Arts & Crafts style. www.artisticlicense.org/members/zito/

Robert Meier. Robert and his brother Christian build furniture in Aptos. www.mbfurnituredesign.com/

Ken Forden. He's with Whitethorne Construction, which produces native hardwoods in Humboldt County. www.whitethornconstruction.com