{"id":7117,"date":"2018-03-09T11:52:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T11:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbc.org.uk\/events\/?p=7117"},"modified":"2018-03-09T11:52:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T11:52:21","slug":"basic-masonry-skills-course-at-slct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/events200826230.live-website.com\/?p=7117","title":{"rendered":"Basic Masonry Skills Course at SLCT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>5 &#8211; 6 April 2018<a href=\"https:\/\/scotlime.us9.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=84cd900131fc6300c92635cc3&amp;id=97292c81d9&amp;e=f5a0ee529e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u><br \/>\nMerryhill\u00a0<\/u>Training Centre, Fife<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0two day course is suitable for those with limited or no experience and who wish to attain basic stonemasonry skills on natural sandstone blocks.<\/p>\n<p>Learners will be introduced to the tools and materials required to produce a flat surface on a block of sandstone and then effect different surface tooling with margins as found on many of our historic buildings.<\/p>\n<p>Learners can take home their practice stones at the end of the day.<\/p>\n<h3>Learning Outcomes<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>How to take a stone out of \u2018twist\u2019 to true level and plumb<\/li>\n<li>Put a true flat surface on a slab of stone<\/li>\n<li>Effect different tooled surfaces, eg stugged, broached, droved and rock faced finishes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Course Programme<\/h3>\n<p>Day 1<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Health and safety \u2013 including use of \u2018Airstream\u2019 hoods to minimize inhalation of airborne crystalline silica<\/li>\n<li>Introduction to the tools used to cut and dress natural sandstone blocks<\/li>\n<li>Taking a stone out of \u2018twist\u2019 using 4 wooden blocks and 2 squares<\/li>\n<li>Production of a true flat surface on a block of sandstone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Day 2<\/p>\n<p>Produce different surface tooling finishes including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Broached<\/li>\n<li>Droved<\/li>\n<li>Stugged<\/li>\n<li>Rock faced, all within tooled margins on one block of stone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><strong>For further information or to book a place on this course, please click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scotlime.us9.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=84cd900131fc6300c92635cc3&amp;id=9956f28404&amp;e=f5a0ee529e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, telephone 01383 872722 or email\u00a0<a class=\"mailto-link\" href=\"mailto:admin@scotlime.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">admin@scotlime.org<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 &#8211; 6 April 2018 Merryhill\u00a0Training Centre, Fife This\u00a0two day course is suitable for those with limited or no experience and who wish to attain basic stonemasonry skills on natural &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/events200826230.live-website.com\/?p=7117\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Basic Masonry Skills Course at SLCT<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-area-of-competence-evaluation","category-ihbc-areas-of-competence-intervention","category-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/events200826230.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/events200826230.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/events200826230.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events200826230.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events200826230.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/events200826230.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7118,"href":"https:\/\/events200826230.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7117\/revisions\/7118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events200826230.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events200826230.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events200826230.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}