Sat, Feb 22
|Watch Garage
Porto - Watch Strap Making - Office Craftsman | 8h
This training will be led by professional craftsman André Carvalho. Participants will learn to master the main techniques, tools and materials. At the end, everyone will leave with a belt made by themselves, and with a tool kit selected by IPR together with the trainer.
Horário e local
Feb 22, 2025, 10:00 AM – 7:30 PM
Watch Garage, R. 28 January 350, 4400-335 Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
Sobre a sessão
Objectives
- Master the main techniques, tools and materials;
- make a watch strap, or other leather work.
Contents
- Theoretical demonstration of the complete process of creating a belt
- Collage
- contact glue application technique
- waiting times
- amounts of glue
- gluing with other glues
- Cut
- cut with scalpel
- cut with leather knife
- cutting using molds
- cut with cutter
- Sewing
- choice of thread and needle
- marking for holes
- holes for sewing using a fork
- use of easel
- saddle stitching
- fly stitches
- finish
- Buckle holes and folds
- folds
- holes using a punching fork
- Finishes
- sandpaper
- burnisher
- application of hot wax on the edges
Toolkit
All participants receive a toolkit so they can become true Office Craftsmen
Trainers
Andre Carvalho
Duration
8 hours
Time
Saturday, 09:30 – 12:30 and 14:00 - 19:00
Location
R. 28th January 350, 4400-335 Vila Nova de Gaia
Number of Participants
Up to 5 participants
Certificate
Certification by IPR — Portuguese Institute of Watchmaking
Inscrições
Office Craftsmen
Training | Watch Strap Making | 8h This workshop will be led by Alexandre Figueiredo or Nuno Margalha, two of the project's creators. Participants will learn to master the main techniques, tools and materials. At the end, everyone will leave with a strap made by themselves, and a tool kit selected by the trainers.
€150.00+€3.75 service fee
Total
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