"I have to say that this lathe is one of the best that I have had in my workshop for review.  For the quality of design and engineering and its capacity it offers very good value for money indeed compared with the competition.  There was nothing that irritated me in any way.  The controls are well positioned, it is quiet, powerful and a pleasure to use.  If I were in the market for a replacement lathe, one from the WivaMac range would certainly be one of the top contenders."

"It is well know that the Belgians produce excellent beer and chocolate, but it's a bit of a hidden secret that one of their companies produces excellent woodturning lathes as well."

From Terry Porter's review of the WivaMac lathes in "Woodturning" magazine.

If you have an ambition to own a truly professional lathe, precision-engineered, yet robustly built - and at a very fair price, then you owe it to yourself to take a look at these splendid WivaMac lathes.

We have spent many years researching the lathes available in the marketplace because we believe that in order to offer lathes to our clients, we needed to have total faith in the product being delivered.  With very few lathes now being manufactured outside Asia, it is today very difficult to achieve that level of confidence.  Having known Willy Vanhoutte, the manufacturer of these fine machines, for many years, I know that these are products built with care, in Belgium, and are built to engineering standards that we have almost forgotten in the UK and elsewhere in the English-speaking world (yes, the engineering is done by engineers, not accountants, in Belgium!).  I also knew that this was a machine to which I would be proud to put my name, having bought, owned and turned on a DB1200 for several years.  From that point it was an easy step to agree that the time had come to offer the DB series of woodturning lathes to a wider market .

There are four lathe models in the WivaMac DB series, each featuring a fabulous 260 mm (10.23") centre height over the bed (520 mm/20.47" diameter over-bed capacity), with various drive options making a total of eight models from which to choose. All share a common theme of massively robust construction and a "systems" approach to turning that permits not just bowl and spindle work but copy turning, ornamental turning and thread cutting to be performed on one machine. A truly unique and remarkable capability. Each lathe has its own dedicated page on our site where specifics for the machine are described and from which purchases may be initiated. These are:-

• DB801 & 802 lathe s, 820 mm between centres, 520 mm over bed, bench mounted (floor stand available as an optional extra). This superb lathe features Vario electronic variable speed control as standard.
• DB800 lathe, 820 mm between centres and 520 mm over bed, bench mounted but with an optional floor stand, available with choice of drives.
• DB1000 lathe, 960 mm between centres, 520 mm over bed, floor standing and offering a choice of three drives including continuous electronically variable speed - the Vario system.
• DB1200 lathe, 1250 mm between centres, 520 mm over bed, floor standing. The ultimate turning machine with a choice of drive configurations headed by the Vario infinitely variable electronic speed control system.
• DB6000 lathe, 600 mm between centres, 520 mm over bed, floor standing - BUT the most powerful compavt lathe apckage available today.  It is sometimes said that "the best things come in small packages" - the DB6000 proves the point.  What a machine - the dream made real!

All have a range of drives, options and accessories available, shown alongside the machine details in the price lists, but explained in more detail on a number of subsidiary pages, as follows:-

• Headstock & Spindle
• Drive & Motor
• Bed & Stand
• Toolrest & Bowlturning
• Tailstock
• Accessories
• Ornamental Turning
• Copy Turning

You may also access these pages by clicking the relevant portions of the image at the head of this page.