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BOSCH USER EXPERIENCE
Bosch user experience
empowers disabled woodworker
The Bosch User Experience has
empowered disabled Christo Wynand to
develop his woodworking skills.
BOSCH DONATED A GHO 6500 flexibility. The compact tool design makes
Professional planer and GKS 190 for easy handling, while the turbo blower
Professional handheld circular saw to function ensures a dust-free view of the
Wynand as part of its User Experience cutting line. An optimised wood-chip
programme, which is an ongoing record enhances visibility of the work surface.
All of these features of the Bosch
of its power tools being applied in
real-life situations, Bosch Professional Professional planer and circular saw
Power Tools Senior Brand Manager stand Wynand in good stead in his new
Campbell Mhodi explains. woodworking career, which he embarked
“The GHO 6500 is a powerful planer
upon in 2004, following a tragic accident
with 650 W input power for a fast planing that left him paralysed. Wynand has
speed. Weighing a mere 2.8 kg, the tool is produced a wide range of pieces to date,
comfortable to handle during due to its from bird cages and dog houses to
ergonomic cable-free design, together wardrobes and kitchen cupboards.
“I have been very impressed with
with its convenient lock-on switch for
both right- and left-handed users.”
The planer has a maximum 2.6mm
the Bosch tools, which have allowed
me to produce woodwork of a
cutting depth, and an optimised airflow significantly higher quality than I would
for wood-chip ejection, resulting in better have been able to achieve otherwise,”
productivity. It is equipped with two-piece Wynand explains.
Such has been Wynand’s success
HSS blades that can be resharpened so
as to reduce maintenance costs. A robust with the Bosch tools, that he plans to
grooved base plate with parking shoe expand his woodworking business, and
ensures a secure and safe work surface. thereby empower additional members
The GKS 190 has 1 400 W input power,
really good locks
4967.c FX M6 ¼ PG
of the Olievenhoutbosch, Centurion,
the highest rating in its class, for fast community in which he resides. “Now
sawing progress in soft and hard wood. that I am equipped with Bosch tools, it
It has a maximum 70 mm cutting depth, will be easy to increase my scope of
and a 56° bevel capability for increased work,” he concludes.
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Christo Wynand can now earn a living from woodworking
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