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EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT OAK7
December 2007
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Whether you are a conservation
professional, craftsman or home-owner, this course provides and
introduction to the growth, conversion, seasoning and uses of oak. It
will examine how to choose and specify oak for carpentry, joinery and
furniture making. The use of oak is growing evermore popular, but it
is not always used successfully. The course will look at tried and
tested traditional methods, and consider how we can learn from these
to avoid failures and misunderstandings.
Leader:
Joe Thompson. Contact Rebecca Osborne for further information about the course. For information about Joe's company, Sussex Oak and Iron, visit his Website
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A two day course covering the sorting, selection, preparation and knapping of flints. Experience of different styles of laying flints and the use of lime mortars. Tutors: Mark Middleton and Chris Rosier |
A five-day practical course for students who have attended the timber framing from scratch course. The studs and braces of wall frames are marked, cut and fitted to a prefabricated timber frame bay. A number of tours around the Museum site demonstrate changing styles over the centuries. The completed work is erected on the last afternoon.
Prior to joining the course you may wish to purchase a famous Gränsfors Bruks Axe.
Tutor: Joe Thompson.
Course fee £475
Contact Rebecca Osborne for further information about the course.
For information about Joe's company, Sussex Oak and Iron, visit his Website
The day will include looking at the implications of improving energy efficiency for traditional buildings, a review of the relevant regulations and guidance, case studies and a practical session of carrying out an air pressure test.
Leaders: Richard Oxley and Phil Ogley, Oxley Conservation
Course fee: £95
Reduce the environmental impact of building at the design stage. These courses are for architects and designers who are concerned with sustainability issues in new-build and refurbishment. Sessions are offered to suit your particular interests, be they domestic house building, commercial and industrial architecture or self-build.
Leaders: Dave Barton and colleague of Impetus Consulting
Course fee: £95
Introduction to the identification of timber species through examination of anatomical features, demonstrations and practical work using hand lenses and microscopes.
Tutor: David
Woodbridge
Course fee £95
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A superb opportunity to gain hands-on experience of timber
framing. A five day practical course introducing students
to the historic use of structural oak framing, tools and techniques.
The posts, cills, plates and beams of a ten foot square timber frame are
prefabricated during the course using only traditional tools and techniques,
and the frame is erected on the last afternoon.
Tutor: Joe Thompson.
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There were many developments in architectural style and technology during the Georgian period from 1700 to 1830. A series of lectures on some of the key features of the period.
Leader:
Experts in Georgian architecture.
Course fee: £95
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Exploration of the background to to the construction of timber framed buildings and the dating of buildings by their construction techniques. The course will also explore structural problems and sympathetic remedial methods.
Tutors: Richard Harris
and Richard Oxley
Course fee £95
Three practical days introducing students to a range of timber repairs. The course will include the approach to timber frame conservation, the use of hand and power tools, scarfing new oak on to old, and smaller patch repairs. A variety of repairs around the Museum provide further examples, and also show the effects of time.
Leader: Joe Thompson
Course fee: £285
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Learn how to split oak, ash and hazel to form laths for plastering or daubing. Students will make a panel to take home.
Leader: Nick Parker
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Victorian Britain saw a huge increase in the number and variety of new buildings. This study day will explore the main aspects of these developments, including housing for the masses and some civic and industrial buildings.
Leader:
Experts in Victorian and Edwardian architecture.
Course fee: £95
A practical workshop focussing on marking and cutting the carpenter’s classic joint. Students working with wet oak and hand tools will mark, cut and drawbore the mortice and tenon that is used extensively in timber-frame construction. Power tools and oak pin/peg-making will be demonstrated. Suitable for all ranges of experience, including previous students who are looking for a refresher day. The completed joint will go home with you.
Leader: Joe Thompson
Course fee:
£95
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Insights into the historic use of wattle and daub, and its repair and conservation today. A morning of touring the Museum’s examples followed by an afternoon of ‘hands on’ practical exercise applying wattles and daubing them. Tutors: Joe Thompson.
For information about Joe's company, Sussex Oak and Iron, visit his Website |
A course for architects and carpenters. The growing popularity of green oak and large softwood framing is encouraging a wider exploration of their possibilities. But the image of the medieval frame is inappropriate for today’s buildings and some rethinking is needed. This course will consider lessons from early structures and will suggest new techniques that can be used, and discuss the contractual arrangements for their design and construction.
Leader: David Yeomans and Jim Blackburn
Course fee: £95
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An illustrated lecture considering the ways in which trade practices dictated the form and appearance of post-medieval furniture and woodwork, followed by an accompanied tour of the furnished interiors around the Museum site. Tutor: Victor Chinnery Victor is the author of the standard work on early oak furniture - 'Oak Furniture - The British Tradition'. He operates as a consultant to a number of private collectors, museums and historic houses in Britain and the USA, advising on the interpretation of interiors, their furnishings and interior decoration; where he regards the evidence of documentary and archaeological sources as of primary importance. He also catalogues the early oak furniture for Christie's, the auctioneers. Victor acted as consultant for the project to re-display the interior of the Birthplace as it might have appeared in the 1570s, during Shakespeare's boyhood. Victor was a founder member of the Regional Furniture Society in 1984, and in 2003 was elected President of the Society. Course fee: £75 including a light lunch, coffees & teas. |
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A theoretical and practical course designed for practising
professionals concerned with conservation and eager to have a closer knowledge
of gauged brickwork Tutor: Gerard Lynch. |
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A foundation course for those with little or no experience of working with lead. Based on the theoretical application, concentrating on design and specification. Case studies of repair and renewal projects. Tutor: Nigel Johnston |
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One day practical lead course for those who have already attended the foundation course. Based on the practical aspects of working with lead sheet by bossing, lead welding and casting. Tutor:
Nigel Johnston of the Lead Sheet Association
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A course for architects, engineers and surveyors offering a step-by-step approach to the design of remedial work to historic structures, wholly or partly in timber. The course will cover the criteria for repair, an introduction to structural analysis, conservation issues, the various repair forms (all timber, timber with steel, the use of resin), and concludes with some case studies.
Leader: Peter Ross
Course fee: £95
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Traditional systems of timber framing, including
demonstrations and practical sessions on timber conversion, principles of
layout, scribing method, pegs and assembly.
Tutor: Richard Harris |
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A day of talks, demonstrations and practical experience of the equipment used in cleaving and finishing oak shingles under the guidance of the most experienced steeplejack in the country.
Leaders: Peter Harknett & John Deal
Course fee: £95
A day school which provides an introduction to methods of repair of timber framed buildings, including a lecture by the Museum Director, a workshop session with Roger Champion using samples to illustrate timber species, conversion methods, patterns of decay and basic methods of repair. Participants will view and discuss exhibit buildings around the museum, tracing the development of our repair methods over thirty years.
Tutors: Richard Harris
and Roger Champion
Course fee £95
A two-day course based in and around William Shakespeare’s town of Stratford-upon-Avon, looking at important collections of post-medieval English oak furniture and their domestic contexts. There will be an in-depth consideration of wear and patination, and the problems presented by fakes and restorations.
Leader: Victor
Chinnery
Course fee £275
Spend a week shingling a recently constructed spire on the Museum site.
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Day 1: Introduction and traditional oak shingle making |
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Day 2: Application of shingles to the flat panels |
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Day 3: Application of shingles to the triangular broaches |
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Day 4: Setting out the shingles above the broaches |
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Day 5: More shingling |
Leader: Peter Harknett, with John Deal
Couurse Fee: £450
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The day school will explore the various types and methods of cob wall construction in the region. It will also examine causes of failure, repair strategies and problems relating to alterations to cob structures. Some hands-on practice.
Leader:
Kevin Stubbs |
“The making of a simple four-panel inside door was considered a good days work” (Walter Rose, The Village Carpenter, 1937). This course will cover all of the procedures involved in making a door by hand. Imperial measurements will be used for historical authenticity and almost all of the tools used will be of the 19th century.
Leader: Ged Gardiner
Course fee: £150
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Three day advanced leadwork course for those who wish to progress their leadworking skills. This course is three days of practical work where students will make patterns for a planter or hopper-head to their own design including decorative embellishments Tutor:
Nigel Johnston |
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Causes of failure and decay and selection of methods
of repair. Practical sessions including cutting out bricks, taking out
defective joints, stitch repairs and reinforcement and patch pointing using
lime mortars. Tutor:
Gerard Lynch. |
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Lectures and practical demonstrations on the traditional
preparation and uses of lime mortars and the modern misconceptions about
them.
Tutor: Gerard
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A day of lectures and practical sessions for homeowners who need to understand more about bricks and bricklaying. The morning session will cover the characteristics of bricks, the historical background, conservation, care and repair of historic brickwork including an introduction to lime mortars. During the afternoon there will be practical sessions on basic bricklaying including techniques, setting out and bonding arrangements, profiles and corners, and plumbing points, gauges, lines and levels.
Leaders: Kevin Stubbs and Ray Moseley
Coourse fee:
£95
Three linked courses exploring the uses of traditional lime plasters and renders.
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A two day course covering the fundamentals of lime plastering from the simplest renders to the finest ornamental work. Lectures followed by practical demonstrations, hands-on experience and opportunity for discussion. Tutor:
Ian Constantinides and Jeff Orton |
Leaders: Ian Constantinides & Jeff Orton
Course fee: £190
The history and development of pargeting styles, from late Tudor to the Arts and Crafts Movement. Demonstrations and hands-on work with carved wooden stamps and freehand work depicting flora, birds and mammals in the Jacobean style.
Leader: Bill Sargent
Course fee: £95
A purely practical day learning the basics of lime plastering, to include historic in-situ run moulds, casting and benchwork re-creating Victorian designs. The course will take place at Highbury College, Cosham.
Course fee: £95
The use of the roofing square is a fundamental skill of carpentry. Students will first use the square to carry out a number of simple practical exercises, then to mark out rafter pitch boards and rafter patterns. These will then be used to cut the rafters for lean-to, gable and hip roofs. This day will help demystify this essential carpentry skill.
Leader: Joe Thompson
Course fee:
£95
An opportunity to learn how to thatch. A hands-on day thatching with straw on a model roof using traditional tools and techniques, whilst learning about this historic craft and the wide variety of materials used.
Leader: Chris Tomkins
Course fee: £150
A day covering the use of historic roofing materials including thatch, shingle, tile, slate and lead, including causes of failure, conservation care and repair. Practical afternoon session on tile and slate.
Leader: Kevin Stubbs with Mike Fildes
Course fee: £95
The day will cover the background, geology and regionality of brickmaking, historic techniques of brickmaking, a hands-on opportunity to make a brick and visit to a local handmade brickworks.
Leader: Kevin Stubbs
Course fee £95
A hands-on course learning how the North Americans were fabricating timber frames in the nineteenth century. Their system had evolved from the “melting pot” of European carpentry cultures combined with the straight timbers available from the virgin forests. However the roots of the new system can clearly be seen in the scribe rule practised in Sussex in the eighteenth century. Students will mark and cut the timbers for a small frame that will be erected on the Friday afternoon.
Leader: Joe Thompson
Course fee:
£475
A certified course. An introduction to the methods used for stress grading hardwoods. Successful completion of this course will result in a Certificate of Proficiency to Visually Strength Grade Temperate Hardwoods (oak) to BS 5756:1997.
Leader:
David Woodbridge
Course fee £450 includes tuition, assessment and certification
The development of jointing and pointing from the Tudor period to 20th century. Practical sessions including selecting materials, tools, preparation of joints for re-pointing, mortars mixes and after care of joints.
Tutor: Gerard Lynch.
Course fee £200
An introduction to the historical development, the causes of failure and the conservative repair relevant to Tudor, Jacobean, Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian periods in the history of English brick. Lectures and demonstrations.
Tutor: Gerard Lynch
Course fee £95
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