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Woodturning - Spindle Turning (Intensive Course)

Course details

At the beginning of the first day, you will become familiar with the lathe, its components, the accessories and the various mounting and workholding options used in spindle turning. You will then be introduced to the fundamental tools for spindle work, including roughing gouges, spindle gouges, parting tools and the skew chisel. Their handling and cutting techniques are practised immediately on simple exercise pieces in different types of wood. Sharpening on a bench grinder or a Tormek – using various sharpening jigs – is also explained in detail and can be tested by the participants.

On the second day, you will learn how to sharpen and use tools such as hooks, hollowing tools and ring tools while turning a lidded box, an end-grain vessel or wooden spheres. Participants are also welcome to realise their own project ideas under professional guidance.
We will work in small groups with intensive tutoring. Each participant will work at an individual lathe. You will have the possibility to test our whole range of woodturning tools and accessories.

Spindle turning:
Here, the wood fibres run parallel to the spindle axis. You clamp the workpiece either with a spur driver and the revolving centre or with a chuck.

Instructor

Günther Friese

The aim of the enthusiastic woodturner, master cabinetmaker and freelance artist is to preserve traditional craftsman techniques. He has been giving woodturning courses for beginners and advanced participants for many years. In the DICTUM woodturning workshop he will share with you his enthusiasm for wood as a beautiful material, and he will give you an insight into his enormous wealth of experience.

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Course locations

A haven for traditional crafts!

A mere 10 minutes drive from our company headquarters in Plattling, it is situated idyllically between the river Danube and the Natural Reserve Bavarian Forest and offers ideal conditions for undisturbed creative work.

The former stable of the Monastery Niederalteich is optimally equipped with

  • Bench room,
  • Turning workshop,
  • Sharpening room,
  • Machine room,
  • Kitchen and Sanitary rooms.

 


DICTUM-Kurswerkstatt
St. Ursulaweg 19
94557 Niederalteich



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Niederalteich

St. Ursula-Weg 19, 94557 Niederalteich,

DICTUM-Parkplätze - Mauritiushof 2

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