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Frame Making
Course
Learn how to do it
yourself!
These courses are designed for you to enhance your knowledge as an
Optician by learning the creative and practical processes of frame
making.
Learn the steps of frame making and
design in detail and finish the course with a frame made by
you!
You will be required to bring some tools with you.
These are basic tools that are necessary for frame creation and for
you to continue frame making when you leave here.
Invest in your tools and invest in your future!
These tools will stay with you your entire optical
career.
Continue on to the advanced 300 level course and learn how to make
a frame out of buffalo horn.
Learn how to work with buffalo horn frames and ways you can sell
buffalo horn in your store too!
Benefits of the Frame Making Course:
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Add Frame Making to your resume to
impress your employers
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Offer your customers individual designs and unique
service
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Use the learned skills to help you problem solve and execute major
repairs such as:
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f
rame cementing
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hinge replacement
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frame refurbishing
COURSE
OUTLINE:
FRAME MAKING 100
(16 hours over 8 weeks)
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Making some of your own tools
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Characteristics of the human face—what to watch out for when
designing a frame
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Bringing a design idea onto paper.
How to make a sketch
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Choosing a material piece and features of acetate
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Basic Hardware & Tools
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Cutting out the front part and temples
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Filing, sandpapering and polishing
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Adding a bevel and hinges
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The final adjustment
FRAME MAKING 200
(11 hours over 5 weeks)
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Adding nose pad arms
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Modifying full frames into nylor mount frames
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Rimless design
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Various decorative lens elements
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Lamination of acetate materials to achieve different color
options
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Adding decorative elements to acetate frames
FRAME MAKING 300 -
BUFFALO HORN
(18 hours over 9 weeks)
(Frame Making 100 and 200 are required as a
prerequisite)
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Features of Buffalo Horn
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Sketching your design
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Choosing a material piece
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Cutting the front part and temples
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Filing, sandpapering and polishing
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Adding a bevel and hinges
Course start
dates to be announced.
Contact us for
more information:
info@granville-eyeland.com
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