Training courses
for framers beginners
Rinaldin organizes a series of framing training courses.
The courses last for a week each (from Monday to Friday) and are held each month at Rinaldin’s premises in S. Martino Buon Albergo just outside Verona.
The courses will be helpful to anyone wishing to start up a framing business or who is already involved in a business in a related sector (such as photographers, galleries, fine arts dealers or artists). The courses will also be useful for trainee framers or for an owner’s family members. Finally it will be useful to anyone wishing to take up framing as a hobby.
The course covers all the basics required by a framer: cutting the mouldings, assembling the pieces, touching up frames, preparing and decorating mountboards, cutting glass, tensioning tapestries, mounting the picture in the frame, etc. The course is mainly practical. However, there are also lessons in management (calculating prices, organising the framing work, reception procedures and execution and delivery of the order).
Please note that this course is for beginners; the teaching is intentionally simple and not, therefore, of value to those who are already experienced in the business.
The courses are run by instructors with extensive experience in the business. The students will have the appropriate tools at their disposal. The cost of the materials used by students (mouldings, glass, mountboards, hardboard, etc.) will be borne by Rinaldin.
The lessons are held from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm and from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm (with mid-morning and mid-afternoon breaks of 15 minutes each).
The number of students is limited to a maximum of four persons in order to give sufficient personal attention to everybody. In view of the limited number of places it is advisable to book well in advance. If the requests to participate exceed the number of places available, priority will be determined on the basis of the date of payment. In the event that the application cannot be accepted because of a shortage of available places, the payment will be refunded immediately.
Any cancellation of enrolement must be notified at least 8 days before the start of the course. Otherwise Rinaldin reserves the right to withhold 50% of the amount.
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Calendar |
| 6 - 10 |
September 2010 |
| 4 - 8 |
October 2010 |
| 8 - 12 |
November 2010 |
| 13 - 17 |
December 2010 |
| 10 - 14 |
January 2011 |
| 14 - 18 |
February 2011 |
| 7 - 11 |
March 2011 |
| 18 - 22 |
April 2011 |
| 16 - 20 |
May 2011 |
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The fee for the week’s course is € 600.00 + 20% VAT (giving a total of € 720). The fee includes lunch along with the instructor at a nearby self-service (excluding hotel accommodation, see below for more details).
Payment must be made at least two weeks before the start of the course. Payment can be made at least two weeks before the start of the course.
The courses are held in Italian but they may also be attended by English-speaking students for whom interpreters can be made available. In this case there will be an additional charge of € 600 (the additional charge may be shared between participants speaking the same language).
For more detailed information about payment click here.
For any request for further details telephone (tel. 0039 045991622) or write to Silvia Rinaldin (silvia.rinaldin@rinaldin.it) who can provide information regarding the availability of places, the choice and booking of hotels (at preferential rates), payment for courses and any other problems.
Program of the Course
Monday morning (Teacher Edoardo Corso)
Mouldings cutting
Cutting with the guillotine
Dangerousness of the blades. Safety-guard
The rebates. Nut and lock nut
Double cutting for a better result
How to cut large mouldings
Measuring and the stop
Adding millimiters to the measure
Controlling the measure after cutting
Adjusting the height of the blades and the pedal
How to cut twisted mouldings
How to repeat a cut piece of mouldings
Cutting optimization to avoid discards
Defects of the moulding
Organization of the cutting work
Teeth on the blades: how to avoid them
How to make different cuts from 45°
How to change blades
Reversible blades
Extension supports of the guillotines and their use
Frames with hollow shape
Causes of incorrect measures
Slide for collecting chips and cuts offs
The pneumatic and electric guillotine
Cutting with the mitre saw
Switching on, cutting out, suction
Rotation of the blade. Different degrees. Cutting direction
Changing the cutting degree
Measurement
Cutting with the double mitre saw
Switching on, cutting out, suction
Measurement, practical cutting exercises
Comments on mouldings cutting
Which is the best: the mitre saw or the guillottine?
The most common woods used in the framing business
Cutting problems of the different kinds of wood
Monday afternoon (Teacher Edoardo Corso)
Frame joining and touching up
Joining systems (with bands, clamps, nails, underpinners)
Joining with elastic bands
Joining with clamps
Joining with drivers
Joining with the underpinner
How to fire more than one wedge horizontally
How to superimpose more than one wedge
Glue or not glue?
Hexagonal and octagonal frames
Moulding discards of different height
Different kinds of woods and air pressure
Different kinds of wedges (traction effect, double sharpened)
Exercises of joining with different underpinners and different kinds of mouldings
Touching up the frame after joining
Products for touching up
Gilded frames touching up
Walnut frames touching up
Coloured and glossy frames touching up
Organizing the touching up
Pre-touching up
Tuesday morning (Teacher Edoardo Corso)
Glass
Working with glass
Manual cutting of glass
How to break glass
Kinds of glass cutters
The squares
The rule
The table
The pliers
Cutting with the vertical cutter (such as Excalibur)
Straight cutting
Cutting of rounds and ovals, both manual and with the cutter
Smoothing glass
Cleaning glass
Other topics on glass
Kinds of glass (normal, non-glare, museum, mirrors)
Origin and costs of glass
Defects of glass
How to storage glass
When to use glass and when not to use it
Plastic glass (crilex, etc.)
Tuesday afternoon (Teacher Edoardo Corso)
Paperboard or cardboard
Paperboard
External cutting
Measuring and tracing the lines of the opening
The mountboard square
Cutting with a knife
Internal fillet
Applying the print to the mountboard
Acidfree adhesive tapes
Mountboard
Kinds of mountboards
Different cores
Standard sizes
Mountboard cutting
Cutting with semi-professional cutters
Cutting with professional cutters
The internal fillet
Decorative "V"-groove
Elaborate cutting
Multiple openings
Oval and round mountboard
Oval cutting of mountboards
Oval manual cutters
Wednesday morning (Teacher Alessandra Rinaldin)
Mount decoration
Mount decoration tapes
Different kinds of mount decoration tapes
How to apply mount decoration tapes
How to decorate the bevelled part of the mountboard
How to increase the depth of the mountboard
Mount decorative transfer rub-downs
Straight rub-downs to apply around the opening
Rub-downs on the corners
Inscriptions with rub-downs
Mount personal decoration
Lines with gold and silver pen
Coloured bands with watercolours
Bands with colored pigments
Decorative grooves with knife
Wednesday afternoon (Teacher Edoardo Corso)
Hangers
Kinds of hangers, features and use
Triangle hangers
Short-tail triangle hangers
Wreath-top hangers
One-hole hangers
Trapezoidal hangers
Trapezoidal long hangers
Fancy loop hangers
Decorative hangers
Loop-shaped hangers
Kwick hangers
Sawtooth hangers
Clip-over hangers
Hanging with picture wire and cord
Hidden hangers
Applying hangers
Measuring the centre of the frame
Manual and mechanical applying of the hanger
When to use two hangers
Security hanging systems
Applying the picture to the frame
Applying the picture to the frame without a mountboard
Cleaning glass
Dust suction from the frame
Kinds of backboard: grey cardboard, corrugated cardboard, masonite, foamboard, etc.
Cutting backboard
Applying the picture and the backboard to the frame
Applying nails or points
Different ways of applying hangers
Brads to apply to the frame with a hammer
Different kinds of staplers
Pneumatique guns (brads, pins, wedges)
Flexipoint drivers. Different kinds and features
Applying a painting to the mountboard and the frame
Applying a stretched painting to the mountboard
Applying a canvas board to the mountboard
Applying the mountboard to the frame
Applying the double glass
Measuring and cutting spacers (small plastic mouldings blocking glass)
Cleaning and applying two glasses
How to fix spacers
Protective paper
Different ways to protect the back of frame
Applying the protective paper
Thursday morning (Teacher Alessandra Rinaldin)
Various works
Tapestries
How to stretch tapestries
How to square correctly tapestries along the borders
Paintings on strecher bars
How to build the frame with stretcher bars
How to apply the painting on the stretcher bars
Varnishes
Various kinds of varnishes
How to apply the varnish with a brush
How to apply the spray varnish
How to fix a pastel or charcoal drawing
Clip frames
Different kinds of clip frames
Standard sizes
How to make a clip frame of non standard size
The shop
This lesson is held in the framing shop so as to have a first approach to the real world of the framer.
Shop organization
How to display moulding samples
How to display mountboard samples
Work order notes
Ready made frames
Displaying posters, frames, prints, paintings
Calculation of prices
Manual calculation of prices
Prices and work order note with the computer
Deposit/payment in advance
In front of the customer
Choosing the frame
Carrying out the order
Handover term
When frames are not collected
Thursday afternoon (Teacher Edoardo Corso)
Fabric Mountboards - Gluing - Aluminium frames - Gilding
Fabric mountboards
Cutting plain wood mountboards
Cutting fabric for the mountboard (different kinds of fabric, velvet, jute, etc.)
Gluing fabric to the mountboard
Cutting fabric
Cutting slip
Applying the slip to the mountboard
Cutting exceeding fabric
Gluing
Gluing with glue
Gluing with spray glues
Gluing with vacuum press
Aluminium frames
Cutting aluminium frames
Assembling aluminium frames
Basic info on gilding
A brief outline of gilding techniques
Water gilding
Oil gilding
Water size gilding
Treatment of the frame after applying the leaf
Friday morning and afternoon (Teacher Edoardo Corso)
Practical framing exercises
The whole day is devoted to practical framing exercises with guidance and advice from the instructor.
The students will be allowed to keep the frames they produce.
At the end of the course an attendance certificate will be awarded.
