Woodturning Days at Drechselbedarf K. Schulte
Woodturning Days is an annual event that has been held at the premises of Drechselbedarf K. Schulte for over 20 years. Over the past two decades, the event has become a fixture in the woodturning scene. Every year, hundreds of visitors flock to the woodturning days to watch renowned woodturners from all over Europe at work. Drechselbedarf has already attracted Alfred Baumann, Franz Keilhofer, Luc Verlinden, Andrew Hall and many other woodturners to the tranquil village of Groß Hesepe in the Emsland region.
But it's not just woodturners who attend the Woodturning Days every year – well-known manufacturers of woodturning tools are also there. These include the woodturning knife manufacturer Crown, Robert Sorby and many more.
You can find all further information about the Woodturning Days at: www.drechsel-tage.de
Please note: There will be no Woodturning Days in 2019!
We are expanding our warehouse in summer 2019. Unfortunately, this means that the woodturning days cannot take place. However, you can find us from 4 to 6 October at the woodturning forum meeting in Ebbs near Kufstein.
All information can be found here: https://www.dft2019.de/
Review of the 2018 woodturning days
- Hans and Jakob Weissflog – Demonstrate the openwork technique, the Saturn box, the overhead cut and much more...
- Alfred Baumann – Talks about knife steels and demonstrates basic techniques and ball turning
- Sjaak Bos (U-Beaut) – demonstrates the Shellawax products from U-Beaut
- Nick Agar – turns bowls and decorates them with texturing tools
- Mark Sanger – turns vases and hollow forms with the Crown Revolution Tool
- Brian and Sue Gandy (Crown) – are the managing directors of Crown Hand Tools. Find out about the differences between HSS, Cryogenic, Pro-PM and M42 Razor Edge steels here
- Franz Keilhofer – turns large bowls on our Stratos XL and demonstrates various clamping techniques
- Horst Pieper – turns writing implements, demonstrates the Hager cross and longitudinal copying device and the ring turning device
- Heribert Lechner – turns writing implements
- Jan Hovens – turns threaded boxes and demonstrates the basic techniques of woodturning. Demonstrates the HoVo oval turning lathe
- Hermann Straeten – turns tiny miniature pieces
- Monika Wagnest – works with the Abranet sanding screen. Demonstrates the advantages of this abrasive, especially for wet woodworking
- Manfred Gangl - Demonstrates the Woodcut tools, turns large hollow vessels
- Jens Holtkamp - Demonstrates eccentric woodturning with and without aids
- Luc Verlinden - Marbles with our Chestnut stains
- Ronald Kanne - Works with the Easy Core bowl saver
- Christian Bruns - Sells a wide variety of woods
- Thomas Diers – makes jewellery from acrylic and wooden blocks
- Ronny Eelen – turns finished bowls and plates
- Hella Heigel – teaches basic woodturning techniques and gives a talk on design
- Jürgen Ludwig – gives a talk on marketing for woodturners
- Thorsten Sieber – mills sculptures with Arbortech systems
- Clive Brooks (Robert Sorby) – Demonstrates the Pro Edge belt sander, the spiralling tool, structuring tools and all other Robert Sorby tools
- Felix Müller (Record Power) – Presents his Record Power products such as band saws, extraction systems, fine dust filters and much more.
- Udo Ahrens (Arbortech) – represents Arbortech tools, demonstrates how to use the product range
- Wolfgang Hess (Tormek) – represents Tormek and gives a detailed demonstration of how to grind all types of woodturning knives
- Joe Brakhage (Teknatool) – represents Teknatool / demonstrates chucks and jaws and the ‘Voyager’
- Boudewijn Rossy – ...will give a talk on health in the workplace. Extraction systems, fine dust filters and respiratory masks
Talks in 2018, Fridays and Saturdays
Jürgen Ludwig: Will give a talk on marketing turned objects: ‘Marketing for woodturners – how do I sell things that nobody wants?’ This entertaining and highly interesting presentation will be of interest to any ambitious woodturner who wants to sell their work to friends, at markets, galleries, etc.
Alfred Baumann: Sharpening woodturning knives – freehand and with aids, quality differences between woodturning knives in HSS, Eco, Cryo, M42 and Pro PM quality.
Hella Heigel: Design in woodturning with long and cross grain, basic woodturning techniques
Boudewijn Rossy: Dust protection is an increasingly important issue. When do I need an extraction system, when do I need a fine dust filter, or when do I even need a respirator? Boudewijn Rossy explains all the important points, and every participant will find something relevant to them in his presentations.
09:30: Occupational safety
10:30: Design
11:30: Marketing
12:30: Knife steels and sharpening
13:30: Occupational safety
14:30: Design
15:30: Marketing
16:30: Knife steels and sharpening
Review of the 2017 woodturning days
From Great Britain (with translation):
- Simon Hope: demonstrates his boring machine with camera system and many new interesting tools from his range.
- Mick Hanbury: turns bowls and plates and works with Jo Sonja's special paints.
- Mark Sanger: demonstrates the ‘Revolution Tool’ from Crown Hand Tools.
- Craig Heffren: demonstrates the Record Power range (band saws, extraction systems, belt and disc sanders, chucks and woodturning lathes).
- Paul Howards: demonstrates his new ball turning device.
- Brian and Sue Gandy: Crown Hand Tools, will be happy to answer any questions about Crown turning tools (HSS, ECO-Line, Cryo, Razor Edge M42, ProPM).
From the Netherlands:
- Ronald Kanne: works with EasyCore bowl savers from Oneway, Max 3 from Woodcut, turns CrushGrind mills and bowls
- Jan Hovens: Specialises in whittling, turning small boxes and working with the Ja Ho guilloche and ornamentation tool. He will also demonstrate how to use tubes, chisels and structuring tools and introduce the new HoVo oval tool.
- Sjaak Bos: is the European representative for Shellawax. He will demonstrate this excellent high-gloss polish on the woodturning lathe.
From Austria:
- Alfred Baumann: demonstrates the basic techniques of woodturning with tubes and chisels, turning balls by hand and with the ball turning device. He also demonstrates how to use our offset and straight hooks in end grain.
- Manfred Gangl: turns vases with the woodcut turning tool.
- Monika Wagnest: sands the vases turned by Manfred Gangl with Abranet.
From Belgium:
- Luc Verlinden: his speciality is a new, simple staining technique using chestnut stains. It is impressive how bowls, vases and goblets appear in a new light.
- Ronny Eelen: turns bowls and plates.
From Slovenia:
- Sergej Dragan: as a manufacturer of cBN discs, he can explain all the advantages of these products.
From Germany:
- Franz Keilhofer: turns bowls exclusively.
- Horst Pieper: His areas of expertise include all our writing instruments, the LP 320-F copying machine, special turning techniques such as the production of loose rings and more.
- Jens Holtkamp: turns eccentrically between the tips as well as with our eccentric clamps and various eccentric chucks.
- Thomas Diers: will demonstrate the manufacture of turned jewellery.
- Roman Dörholt: will work on bowls and paraffin ball stands with the texturing tools from Crown and Henry Taylor.
- Gerd Maaß: will demonstrate the tools used to make our silhouette balls.
- Ricardo Gerlach: from the company ‘Colt’ will work with Colt drills and explain their advantages. Thorsten Sieber: will work on sculptures using the Arbortech system.
- Herman Straeten: turns miniatures and jewellery.
- Hella Heigel: demonstrates basic woodturning techniques.
- Hans and Jakob Weiß flog: turn filigree boxes from their well-known range and demonstrate alternative clamping techniques.
- Heribert Lechner: turns writing implements.
- Jürgen Ludwig: gives a talk on marketing turned objects.
- Christian Bruns: sells woods and nuts from all over the world.
SEMINARS – new at the Woodturning Days
This year, several seminars will take place alongside the demonstrations:
- Jürgen Ludwig: Gives a talk on marketing turned objects: ‘Marketing for woodturners – How do I sell things that nobody wants?’ This entertaining and highly interesting presentation will be of interest to any ambitious woodturner.
- Alfred Baumann: ‘Sharpening woodturning knives – freehand and with aids, quality differences between woodturning knives’
- Hella Heigel: ‘Design in woodturning with long and cross-cut wood, basic woodturning techniques’
Further information at: www.drechsel-tage.de
Review of the 2016 Woodturning Days
The following exhibitors and woodturners took part in the 2016 Woodturning Days: Andrew Hall
- Franz Keilhofer
- Mick Hanbury
- Emma Cook
- Alfred Baumann
- Lesley Churton
- Thomas Diers
- Horst Pieper
- Ronald Kanne
- Gerd Maaß
- Jan Hovens
- Roman Dörholt
- Jens Holtkamp
- Thorsten Sieber
- Holger Graf (DrechslerMagazin)
- Brian and Sue Gandy (Crown Handtools)
- Clive Brooks (Robert Sorby)
- Jürgen Miebach (Colt)
- Sjaak Bos and Tjikke Bos-Janssen (Shellawax)
- Sergej Dragan (Diamet – cBN grinding wheels)
- Udo Arens (Arbortech)
- Mark Sanger
- Wolfgang Hess (Tormek Sweden)
- Christian Bruns
- Luc Verlinden
- Hermann Straeten
- Craig Heffren (Record Power)