Working with Corian® by Kurt Hertzog
Making "Stick Pens" by Kurt Hertzog
Making a Carbide Tool by Kurt Hertzog
Making a Vacuum Pump System by Kurt Hertzog
Making your own Vacuum Chuck by Kurt Hertzog
Woodturning Design Magazine #8 - 3rd Annual Penturners Rendezvous by Kurt Hertzog
Woodturning Design Magazine #17 - 5th Annual Penturners Rendezvous by Kurt Hertzog
Woodturning Design Magazine #18 - Jazzing Up a Hobby Knife by Kurt Hertzog
American Woodturner Article - 10 Steps to Better Pens by Kurt Hertzog
Stylus Magazine Article on Penmakers Guild - Part 1/2
Stylus Magazine Article on Penmakers Guild - Part 2/2
Pen World Magazine Article on Penmakers Guild
Friday and Saturday, August 15-16, 2008
Ornaments - Simple to Sophisticated - All day demos and hands on sessions at the Quad State
Bodgers AAW Chapter - Midland MD
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Sharpening Made Easy demo at Western NY Woodturners in Buffalo, NY
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Turning Fundamentals - All day hands on class at the
Rockler Store,
Buffalo NY
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Sharpening A to Z, Woodturning Tools & Other Shop Tools - All day hands on class at the
Rockler Store,
Buffalo NY
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Green Wood Turning - All day hands on class at the
Rockler Store,
Buffalo NY
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Turning Fundamentals - All day hands on class at the
Rockler Store,
Buffalo NY
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Sharpening A to Z, Woodturning Tools & Other Shop Tools - All day hands on class at the
Rockler Store,
Buffalo NY
Saturday, Sunday, Monday, October 18-20, 2008
Penmaking - Simple to Sophisticated - All day demo and hands on workshops at
Woodturners Guild of Ontario, Toronto Ontario
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Mastering the Ellsworth Gouge - All day hands on class at the
Rockler Store,
Buffalo NY
Sunday, October 26, 2007
Turning Ornaments - All day hands on class at the
Rockler Store,
Buffalo NY
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Turning Fundamentals - All day hands on class at the
Rockler Store,
Buffalo NY
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Sharpening A to Z, Woodturning Tools & Other Shop Tools - All day hands on class at the
Rockler Store,
Buffalo NY
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Advanced Penmaking - All day hands on class at the
Rockler Store,
Buffalo NY
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Turning Desktop Accessories - All day hands on class at the
Rockler Store,
Buffalo NY
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Woodturning Fundamentals - All day hands on class at
Lee Valley Store in Burlington, Ontario
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Turning Fundamentals - All day hands on class at the
Rockler Store,
Buffalo NY
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Sharpening A to Z, Woodturning Tools & Other Shop Tools - All day hands on class at the
Rockler Store,
Buffalo NY
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Green Wood Turning - All day hands on class at the
Rockler Store,
Buffalo NY
AAW Symposium, Richmond, VA
Making Your Pens Unique, 90 minute demonstration, 6/20/08 & 6/21,08
Pen Making Tips and Tricks, 90 minute demonstration, 6/20/08 & 6/22/08
Utah Woodturning Symposium, Provo, UT
Making Your Pens Unique, 90 minute demonstration, 5/22/08,
Pen Making Tips and Tricks, 90 minute demonstration, 5/22/08 & 5/23/08,
Making Your Pens Unique, 90 minute demonstration, 6/16/06
Woodworkers Showcase 2008, Saratoga Springs, NY
Two rotations - Tips and Tricks for the Woodturner, 4/5/08 & 4/6/08
Two rotations - Simple Woodturnings for the Woodworker, 4/5/08 & 4/6/08
Totally Turning Symposium, Albany, NY
Two rotations - 90 minutes each - Sharpening Made Easy, Workmounting Techniques, 10/13/2007 & 10/14/2007
Two rotations - 85 minutes each - Exotic Pens, Improving your Photographs, 10/14/2006 & 10/15/2006
Four rotations - 85 minutes each – 2 on Sharpening Woodturning Tools, 2 on Turning Exotic
Pens, 10/15/2005 & 10/16/2005
Craft Supplies USA - Super Wednesday Demonstration Day, Provo, UT
Pen Making Tips and Tricks, 90 minute demonstration, 5/21/08, 6/20/07, 6/14/06
Making pens w/o kits and adapting pen kits, Hand-cut spiral techniques, Two - 75 minute demonstrations, 6/15/05
Using Alternate Materials, Finishing Techniques, Two - 75 minute demonstrations, 6/9/04
Penturners Rendezvous, Provo UT
DeMystifying the Skew Chisel, 45 minute demonstration, 5/21/08
Sharpening Fundamentals for Turning Tools, 45 minute demonstration, 6/20/07, 6/15/05
Hand-cutting Spirals, 30 minute demonstration, 6/9/04
Rockler Store,
Buffalo NY
Mastering the Ellsworth Gouge - all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 1/19/08
Workholding Techniques for Woodturners, 4 hour store demo, 2/24/07
Workholding Techniques for Woodturners - all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 4/15/07
Turning Pens and Bottle Stoppers - all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 10/22/06
Turning Wooden Peppermills, all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 11/18/06,
4/8/06
Pens and Ornaments, all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 2/18/06
Fundamentals of Woodturning, all day demo, lecture, & hands on class: 2/3/08, 1/6/08, 11/11/07, 6/2/07, 5/5/07, 4/7/07, 3/3/07, 9/17/06,
5/20/06, 4/1/06, 1/14/06
Sharpening for Woodturners, all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 2/2/08, 1/5/08, 11/10/07, 5/19/07, 4/28/07, 10/8/06, 5/13/06, 12/10/05
Sharpening Workshop Tools A to Z, all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 3/9/08, 2/16/08, 12/15/07, 2/25/06
Sharpening Tools using the Tormek/Jet Sharpening System, 4 hour store demo, 8/27/07,
4/14/07, 3/17/07, 2/3/07, 11/11/06, 10/29/05, 6/11/05
Using the Wolverine Sharpening system, 4 hour store demo, 5/21/05
Turning Pens and Bowls, 4 hour store demo, 6/9/07, 2/5/05
Turning hollow ornaments, 4 hour store demo, 11/30/05, 11/19/05, 11/6/04
Basic Penturning, 4 hour store demo, 1/7/06, 1/4/06, 10/16/04
Rockler Freedom Pen Day, all day demo and instructions on pens for customers, 6/26/04
Woodturning Demos, all day turning demos for customers, 6/5/04 & 6/6/04, 11/29/03
Woodcraft Store, Rochester NY
Basic Spindle Turning (WC101), all day demo, lecture, & hands on class:
1/12/08, 12/8/07, 10/20/07, 3/11/07, 1/13/07, 12/9/06, 11/19/06, 4/22/06, 2/5/06, 11/26/05, 10/22/05, 5/7/05, 4/2/05,
1/23/05, 12/4/04, 10/2/04, 9/4/04, 7/31/04, 5/15/04, 3/27/04
Sharpening for Woodturners, all day demo, lecture, and hands on class: 10/29/06, 4/29/06, 11/27/05, 4/3/05,
10/9/04, 7/10/04, 3/14/04
Advanced Spindle Turning (WC201), all day demo, lecture, and hands on class: 2/15/04
Turning Peppermills, all day demo, lecture, and hands on class: 5/8/04
Adirondack Woodturners Association, Albany NY
Advanced Pen Making - All day demo, 5/26/07
Turning Peppermills and Ornaments - all day demo, 11/4/06
Sharpening for Woodturners, all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 12/5/05
Golden Horseshoe Woodturners Guild, Burlington Ontario
Ornaments - Simple to Sophisticated, 2 hour demo, 3/20/08
Sharpening Made Easy, 2 hour demo, 2/15/07
Workholding Techniques, 2 hour demo, 9/21/06
Woodturners Guild of Ontario, Toronto Ontario
Sharpening Made Easy - 2 hour club demo, 9/20/07
Workholding Techniques - 2 hour club demo, 11/9/06
Northeastern Woodworkers Association, Albany NY
Woodturning Fundamentals for Woodworkers, 1 hour club demo, 4/21/05
Presque Isle Woodturners, Erie PA
Workholding Techniques/Skew Chisel Fundamentals - 3 hour club demo, 4/4/07
Sharpening Fundamentals, Shell Piercing Demo - All day demo, 8/5/07
Mid Hudson Woodworking Chapter, Kingston NY
After Turning Ornamentation Techniques - All day demo/hands on class, 4/26/08
Rochester Woodworkers Society, Rochester NY
Basic Woodturning for Furniture Makers, 8 hour demo, lecture, and hands on class, 3/26/05
Basic Penturning, 8 hour demo, lecture, and hands on class, 2/9/02
Western NY Woodturners 1, AAW Chapter Demonstrations, Buffalo NY
Piercing and carving on your woodturnings, 1 hour club demo, 2/2/06
Workmounting techniques, 1 hour club demo, 2/3/05
Using the Skew Chisel, 1 hour club demo, 10/7/04
Sharpening Fundamentals, 1 hour demo, 6/3/04
Lidded Boxes, 1 hour club demo, 6/5/03
Tools & Techniques for Piercing Turnings, 1 hour club demo, 9/6/01
Western NY Woodturners 2, AAW Chapter Demonstrations, Hamburg NY
Sharpening Fundamentals, 1 hour club demo, 3/13/08
Art and Science of Sanding Turnings, 1 hour club demo, 9/14/06
Sharpening and using the Ellsworth Bowl Gouge, 1 hour club demo, 6/8/06
Simple Techniques to Improve the Photographs of your Turnings, 1 hour club demo, 2/8/06
Using the Skew Chisel, 1 hour club demo, 5/12/05
Hand Chasing Threads, 1 hour club demo, 3/10/05
Making Lidded Boxes, 1 hour club demo, 10/10/02
Pembroke Woodturners Guild, AAW Chapter Demonstrations & Classes, Corfu NY
Sharpening for the Woodturner, 1 hour club demo, 4/8/08, 9/12/06
Mastering the Skew Chisel, 1 hour club demo, 5/9/06
Advanced Pen Making , 1 hour club demo, 10/11/05
Turning Fundamentals, 1 hour club demo, 4/12/05
Improving the photographs of your turnings, 1 hour club demo, 11/9/04
Using the Bedan and Parting tool to their fullest, 1 hour club demo, 8/14/04
Sharpening for Woodturners, all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 4/24/04
Making your own turning tools, 1 hour club demo, 4/12/04
Barb’s Barn, demo & hands on workshops for 4 local AAW chapters, Elma NY
Sharpening for the Woodturner, all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 11/21/04
Woodturning Fundamentals, all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 11/12/06, 3/20/04
Sharpening Fundamentals, all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 11/8/03, 8/2/03
Mastering the Skew Chisel, all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 11/9/03, 8/3/03
Making Lidded Boxes, all day demo, lecture, and hands on class, 12/7/02
Park Avenue Arts Festival,
annual 2 day juried craft show, Rochester NY
Judge for Woodcraft category, Judge for Toys category, 8/4/07, 8/5/06, 8/6/05, 8/7/04
Juror for festival applicants, 4/2/06
The Woodworking Shows, Buffalo NY
Demonstrator for Jet Tools Sharpening System, 3 days of demos on the Jet Sharpening System, 9/29/06 through 10/1/06
Additional school, festival/fair, craft show, and woodturning judging experience available on request.