About

Hi there, I’m very excited to see that you chose woodhappen.com as your trusted woodworking source! To give you a better idea of who I am and why I chose to create this website, let me tell you a few words about me.

Who I Am and Why I Love Wood

I’m Thomas. I was born in 1984 in Switzerland. I live in a house together with my wife and there are always plenty of woodworking activities to do both inside and outside! I have been into woodworking since 2005 and woodturning since 2011.

I initially got into woodworking because I play guitar, and was highly interested in building my own electric guitar according to my own specifications. I participated in a 3-week gear building course in Spain, where I built my first electric guitar from A-Z, and even had the opportunity to take over a guitar workshop! It was there that I built my next few guitars and learned a lot along the way.

I found myself left with a lot of freshly sawed palm wood, and this got me wondering what else I could create out of it. It was at this point that I learned about woodturning – I bought my first woodturning lathe and couldn’t stop getting creative! I tried to cross borders and combine different mediums and painting techniques with classical woodturning in order to create something unique and new.

Some of my artworks

I worked part-time as a woodturning artist and even displayed my art at a couple of exhibitions all over Switzerland and Europe. I worked with hundreds of different wood species from all over the world, most of which I sourced myself. I would then turn the wood green or dry it very slowly so as to make sure that the wood doesn’t crack.

I worked with both wet and dried wood in the process of turning the fallen tree into a finished bowl, vessel, or piece of art, and all of this gave me a fundamental understanding of wood as a material – how it can be used, how it reacts, and how to tell if it is still wet even though it appears to be dry.

My woodturning workshop

Why I Started woodhappen.com

Because of my love for wood and woodworking, I started woodhappen.com to teach other enthusiasts about how to finish and seal wood, the best woodworking tools, the different types of wood, and everything else related to wood!

Former Woodworking Memberships:

American Association of Woodturners
Formforum Association for Arts and Crafts

Attended Exhibitions:

Exhibition	Year	Location
Kunsthandwerk am Fluss	2013	Zurich
Arts Exhibition Schloss Greifensee	2013	Zurich
FormSzene Arts and Crafts Exhibition	2014	Zurich
Dies und Jenes Art Exhibition	2014	Zurich
Kunstundschaffen Arts and Crafts Exhibition	2014	Zurich
Art Exhibition Seewiese	2015	St. Gallen
Kunstgarten Art Exhibition	2015	Zurich
Studio Exhibition	2016	Zurich
Kulturparkett “Transformation”	2016	St. Gallen
Art Gallery Artisani	2017	Germany
Art Exhibition “BPS”	2017	Basel
Art Gallery Kemptnertobel	2019	Zurich