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Materials Suppliers

Wood

• Ply Direct
• MDF Direct
• Laser Ply
• Wood Shop Direct
• Basildon Timber
• Blumsons
• Chambers Timber
• Leigh Timber (Leigh-on-Sea local timber merchant)
• Woodwise Exotic Timbers
• Specialised Panel Products Suppliers of high-end or unusual timber products
• CNC Creations

Plastics and Resins

• Direct Plastics
• The Plastics Shop
• Wessex Resins Epoxy Suppliers
• Kewell Converters Engineered foam products
• UV Gear UV reactive products and materials
• Vista Resins

Ceramics and Plasters

• Alchemie
• Mould Life
• Clayman Supplies
• Tiranti
• Tuffnell Glass

Metal

• Aluminium Warehouse
• Alloy Sales
• Metal Fabrication Supplies
• Rapid Methals
• Matara Aluminium Extrusion

Fabric and Leather

• Leprevo Leather working supplies
• Tandy Leather UK site
• J.T. Batchelor Leather supplies
• JC Joel Theatrical fabrics
• MacCulloch & Wallis Habadashers

Other Materials

• Benham Bentley Moulding materials
• Crafty Products Art and Craft supplies
• Greenstick Material Crafts Vinyl and paper crafts
• Penn Elcom Case hardware and components
• Better Building Hardware Interesting hardware
• Special Plasters
• Snowdonia Supplies Taxidermy supplies
• UK Knifemaker Supplies

Component Suppliers

Electronics (UK)

• Hobby Components
• Farnell Professional Component Supplier
• CPC Consumer arm of Farnell
• RS Components The original radio spares supplier, expensive but incredible depth of products
• Cool components
• The PI Hut
• Hobbytronics
• SB Components
• ESR Electronic Components
• Bitsbox Electronic Components
• Mouser UK
• Digikey UK
• Simons Electronics
• PCBWay Circuit boards, assembly and hardware fabrication services
• JLCPCB Circuit boards fabrication services

RF and Radio

• McGill Microwave

Electronics (US)

• All Electronics
• Sparkfun
• SeedStudio US supplier with lots of good product info
• tti components suppliers (lots of good spec sheets)
• Adafruit

Robotics

• Robotshop UK

Hardware

• Bearings Boys
• Misumi - Extrusions and hardware suppliers
• Accu 500,000 Precision Components
• BPF Online
• Castors Online
• My Electronics Rack mounting kits and accessories
• British Tools and Fastners USA site (Ironically) for the supply of nuts bolts for British vehicles.

Cabinet hardware

• G Johns and Sons Architectural hardware
• Buller Ltd. Cabinet hardware
• Ironmongery Direct
• Eurofit Direct
• Furnica Furniture fittings
• Trade Hinges Furniture hardware and fittings
• Flightcase Fittings
• Penn-Elcom Flightcases & 19" Rack hardware

Other Electrical

• Auto Electric Supplies Car electrical components and modules
• Sterling Power Auto electrics systems
• ACDC Drives Electric motors and drivers
• 12 Volt Planet
• ACD Drives - AC Power conversion and motors

Service Suppliers

Fabrication

• LS Engineering LASER cutting, engineering and Fabrication
• Shapeways 3D print service

Tool Suppliers

Woodworking Tools

• Axminster Tools
• Rutland Tools
• Lumberjack Tools OEM tool suppliers
• The Wood Workers Workshop

General Tools

• Machine Mart Workshop equipment
• Airbrushes.com
• Proops Brothers Hobby Tools
• Rowland Tools Pro Tools suppliers
• Workshop Heaven US Tool Suppliers
• Craft lights - bulbs and lamps

Tool Accessories

• Parts Shop Direct - Power Tool Parts
• Shadow Foam

Workshop Supplies

• Safelincs fire safety
• Barcode Warehouse

Adhesives

• Adhesive Brokers
• Stormsure Adhesives
• Sylmasta Adhesives and sealants

Theatrical, Broadcast and Film suppliers

• Flints Theatrical and film chandlers
• Doughty Engineering TV and photography hardware and custom fabrication
• Canford Radio and television professional suppliers
• Flash Light Film and TV lighting, Grip and Consumables
• Direct Digital Photographic consumables

Office, Draughting and Stationary

Draghting and Art Supplies

• Seawhite Stationary and art supplies
• Graphics Direct
• JR Bourne Engineering Drafting Supplies and furniture
• Dew Drafting Supplies
• Engineering Supplies

Stationary

• Flexi labels

Business and Marketing

• SurfTurf Promotional boothes, gazeebos and Flags

PPE

• Safety Specs Prescription safety glasses

CNC/3D Printing

• 3D Jake
• Endurance LASERs
• HPC LASER Supplier and OEM of LASER engravers
• Rep Rap World 3D printer supplies
• Duet 3D
• Tools Today CNC Bits and tooling
• Open Build Parts Store CNC/Laser parts
• https://www.vectric.com/ectric CNC Software
• Carveco
• F3DM 3D Printer filaments and materials

2D & 3D Models and design

• Printables 3D models
• Instructables
• Thingverse
• TinkerCAD
• 3Axis Free Vectors for Laser Cutting
• Maker Case 3d design tool for Laser cut boxes
• Ponoko Free laser cutting files and templates
• ZenziWerken German language Laser and 3D projects
• Open Parts Store CNC

Artwork Media and Fonts

• ArtStation
• BBC Sound Effects
• Digital Colour Labs Photographic printing services
• Vector Ruler generator
• Noun project 2D Free artwork - Icons and Photos

Books and written materials

• Foyles Book Sellers
• Amazon - Engineering and technology Books

Educational resource suppliers

• Springboard Supplies
• Skill Supply
• GLS Education STEM
• KCS Education STEM
• Better Equipped
• Hope Education STEM

IT and Cloud

• Adalo Code-less Programming

Jewellery Making and Horology

• Cooks on Gold
• Cousins

Note on links: These links are provided as-is. They are not endorsements of the organisations listed, we have no affiliation with them and are provided here for education and reference use only. If you find a broken link please let us know.