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Spud
I attended the Kilndex stone polishing and restoration course run by Amir Patwa today and just wanted to say a big thank you to him and his assistant for putting on this free days training.
Amir is a really nice guy with a great sense of humour and explained the basics of marble and stone repairs and re-polishing using wet and dry hand held polishers, its hands on and you get the opportunity to repair some broken pieces of marble and bring them up to a factory finish polish
In the afternoon he demonstrated lippage and stock removal with hard pads and carborundum blocks and re-polished a bush hammered piece of granite using diamond pads on a klindex machine and demonstrated dry polishing and cristalisation of marble and limestone and wet polishing of marble he gives you the opportunity to us the machines and takes time to explain the basics ,it was a lot to take in and the guys who attended ranged from complete novices through to professional stone restoration guys who work for a well known restoration firm.
I would recommend this free course to any one who works with stone and tiles and will definitely be attending some of their other courses in the future
Amir is a really nice guy with a great sense of humour and explained the basics of marble and stone repairs and re-polishing using wet and dry hand held polishers, its hands on and you get the opportunity to repair some broken pieces of marble and bring them up to a factory finish polish
In the afternoon he demonstrated lippage and stock removal with hard pads and carborundum blocks and re-polished a bush hammered piece of granite using diamond pads on a klindex machine and demonstrated dry polishing and cristalisation of marble and limestone and wet polishing of marble he gives you the opportunity to us the machines and takes time to explain the basics ,it was a lot to take in and the guys who attended ranged from complete novices through to professional stone restoration guys who work for a well known restoration firm.
I would recommend this free course to any one who works with stone and tiles and will definitely be attending some of their other courses in the future