3 Day Expert Leather Repair Training Course

Day 1 - 8.30am start

• Introduction of LRC and how it all began.
• Introduction of the trainer and the trainers background and experiences.
• Introductions of all students on the course.
• Q&A Time with Students.
• We set the ball rolling with an in-depth Q&A about what you want to achieve and get out of the course and how this can impact your life going forward and bring in revenues. We talk about running a business, managing customer expectations, pricing and marketing. We talk about mentoring support on going after the course and the type of on-going business help you can gain.
• A full rundown of the technician kit with the two options explaining the differences of the kits.
• We do a full leather ID section here, getting students talking about leather, showing trainees the difference between each type of leather, getting everyone used to identification and how to identify.
• We hold a detailed product knowledge discussion, where the leather care products can be used, how they can be used and in what order, we show each product, provide a detailed talk about each products, pass them round and talk about how each product can be used in conjunction with each other, how students can mix them together to use in different areas, we talk about the pros and cons of using each product in each area and on what type of material and how to sue each product for best results.
• We end the day with a Q&A session responding to questions students may have.
• We finish at 5pm.

Day 2 - 8.30am start

• We begin the day with a quick run through of any questions you may have from day 1 that you have thought about overnight.
• Colour Mixing full morning session
  • We do full colour mixing sessions by eye, getting students used to and understanding the colour wheel, how colours work with each other and complement each other.
  • Here students get to play with colours, they make colour mixing cards, getting used to how colours blend together, understanding tints, shades and tones, getting used to secondary and tertiary colours.
  • We provide full demonstration of the colour scanner, how it works and what to expect, with mixing demonstrations to set expectations, and remove any myths there maybe.
• We begin the afternoon with a Q&A session about colour mixing.
• Then we begin practical work with leather cleaning & protection methods on pigmented leather. This will be on any items you have, seat cushions, leather car seats, designer leather handbags, leather jackets, cases, antique leather items, vintage leather goods.
• Then we move to aniline leather cleaning, veg tanned cleaning and protection methods.
• Students then get to carry out different types of tears in different areas of the items. Once the tears have been fixed, students then get used to apply fillers and blending in tears to make them as close to invisible as possible.
• We end the day with a full Q&A session about today’s tasks.

Day 3 - 8.30am start

• We begin the day with grain copying repairs, doing a demonstration on leather, vinyl and hard plastics.
• The students then do all the same types of repairs on all three material types as each type is a different approach.
• We now focus on scratches and scuffs in leather, doing demonstrations of scuffs scratches in leather, vinyl and hard plastics.
• The trainees then carry out the same to the 3 different substrates perfecting each scratch and scuff as they go, learning different methods of resolving these problems.
• The final afternoon is spraying techniques with paints and clear coat sealers, showing how this is done on different materials including vinyl. We also talk about the benefits of tinted clear coat sealers, these are very beneficial and very unique to LRC, we explain the benefits of these products and why they are crucial in today’s market for leather repairs.
• We end the day with a talk about marketing and Q&A of the full course.

Bolt-on Courses

Bolt On Courses are added to each course and are 1 day on the Friday, please see dates for which bolt on is on which month, these include:

• 1 x Day Shoe Colouring Course.
• 1 x Day Two Tone Course.
• 1 x Day Upholstery Foam Course.
• 1 x Day Colour Mixing Course (this is a more in depth session on colour mixing, mixing colours on many different types of leathers, making more complex colour cards and systems getting to understand colours even further)

They cost £195 when booked as an add on, £250 full price as a stand alone 1 day course

14th - 16th January
Bolt on day 17th January - Two Tone 1 day course

25th - 27th February
Bolt on day 28th February - Master Colour Matching 1 day course

11th - 14th March
Bolt on day 15th March - Shoe upper restoration 1 day course

22nd - 24th April
Bolt on day 25th April - Foam, upholstery foam, webbing and springs 1 day course

20th - 22nd May
Bolt on day 23rd May - Two Tone 1 day course

17th - 19th June
Bolt on day 20th June - Master Colour Matching 1 day course

15th - 18th July
Bolt on day 19th July - Shoe upper restoration 1 day course

19th - 21st August
Bolt on day 22nd August - Foam, upholstery foam, webbing and springs 1 day course

23rd - 25th September
Bolt on day 26th September - Two Tone 1 day course

21st - 23rd October
Bolt on day 25th October - Master Colour Matching 1 day course

18th - 20th November
Bolt on day 21st November - Shoe upper restoration 1 day course