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Winter Class Special
Group discounts on upcoming classes receive a 15% discount for a group of two students together (bring a friend and both get 15% off each), and 20% off each tuition for groups of three more.
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One Day BRCP Basics Workshop
This class provides an overview and beginning hands-on experience with the materials and methods involved with creating a simple concrete countertop, either pre-cast or cast-in-place. You will acquire an understanding of the steps involved in planning and creating a countertop slab, using the full array of methods used by commercial fabricators, including templating, mold-making, mixing and coloring, upside down and right side up forming techniques, reinforcement options, and glass fibers. Do your own de-molding, polishing, and sealing. Get gloves-on experience with mix consistency, color ratios, placing reinforcement, pressing technique, grinding, sealing and waxing. Review pour and vibrate methods and GFRC techniques, and go over trouble shooting, discussing many tips of the trade. This workshop is appropriate for do-it-yourselfers and anyone new to the craft of decorative concrete forming. You will leave the class with a basic overview of concrete countertop creation and the information and introductory experience necessary to start practicing in the home shop.
Maximum number of students: 12
Class Notebook and Buddy Rhodes Concrete Style No.1 Book provided to each student.
Time: 8:30 am to 5:00 pm.
Cost: $300, $560 for 2, $780 for 3.
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Three Day BRCP Comprehensive Workshop
This class is designed to give each student a gloves-on experience that now includes an extra day to cover templating and installation in detail, offering students an opportunity to create an actual countertop to be installed in place on Day 3. You will design, template, build a mold, measure, mix and color concrete to fill the mold, de-mold, grind and polish the countertop, and install it in place at Buddy Rhodes' new San Francisco headquarters: a work in progress. Each step can be adapted to the participant's own project back home. This workshop is appropriate for all levels of experience, as classes are kept small and individualized according to student needs. You will leave class with three full days of hands-on experience with a minimum of one experienced instructor per every four students. All of the possible methods currently employed by commercial concrete fabricators will be explored: pressed, trowelled, ground, pour-and-vibrate, and introductory GFRC - upside down and right side up, pre-cast and cast-in-place.
Continental breakfast, lunch, beverages and snacks provided.
Maximum number of students: 12
Class Notebook and Buddy Rhodes Concrete Style No.1 Book provided to each student.
Time: 8:30 am to 5:00 pm.
Cost: $1200, $2370 for 2, $3348 for 3.
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Three Day BRCP Comprehensive Workshop
Including Day 3 with Brandon Gore and GFRC
This class is similar to the Three Day BRCP Comprehensive, with more time allotted for a third day of GFRC training , and less time allotted for templating and installation. You will get gloves-on experience with mixing and filling molds, de-molding, polishing and sealing. You will have time to make individual pressed method tiles with void-filling and polishing suitable to take home. Explore pressed, trowelled and ground, pour-and-vibrate and GFRC techniques, including spraying methods. This class is suitable for all levels of students prepared to move quickly through a lot of exploration and information. Classes can be individualized for most ability levels, and are appropriate for experienced fabricators.
Continental breakfast, lunch, beverages and snacks provided.
Maximum number of students: 12
Class Handbook and Buddy Rhodes Concrete Style No.1 Book provided to each student.
Time: 8:30 am to 5:00 pm.
Cost: $1450, $2464 for 2, $3480 for 3.
Just Day 3 with Brandon Gore
Cost:$595, $1010 for 2, $1428 for 3.
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One Day GFRC with Brandon Gore
Brandon Gore, a pioneer who was the first to introduce GFRC workshops focused on high-end interior pre-cast methods, teaches our one-day class. You will learn exciting pre-cast concrete techniques, methods including spraying, mix designs, and concrete finishing with a focus on environmental sustainability. We will be working with Buddy Rhodes new GFRC product line.
Continental breakfast, lunch, beverages and snacks provided.
Maximum number of students: 12
Class Handbook and Buddy Rhodes Concrete Style No.1 Book provided to each student.
Time: 8:30 am to 5:00 pm.
Cost: $595, $1010 for 2, $1428 for 3.
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Three Day Artisan Pro Class: Mold-Making
This class is designed for all of those students who have asked us to offer more work with designing and forming molds for concrete, including two dimensional melamine molds, three dimensional furniture molds, plaster forming for fiberglass molds, rubber molds etc. Instructors will cover all sorts of edge forming: radius, return edges, and plaster forming for more complex edges such as ogee, bull nose and others. This class is intended for experienced fabricators wishing to expand their forming skills and thereby provide more options for their customers. Expert mold-makers
Nick Relampagos of Its Concrete and Beto Esquivel, long-time Buddy Rhodes partner and fabricator, will join plaster form expert Matt Mondini and Joshua Cruz as instructors. Buddy will join us as concrete form-maker emeritus.
Continental breakfast, lunch, beverages and snacks provided.
Maximum number of students: 12
Class Handbook and Buddy Rhodes Concrete Style No.1 Book provided to each student.
Time: 8:30 am to 5:00 pm.
Cost: $1450, $2464 for 2, $3480 for 3.
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Registration Policy:
• Registration must be accompanied by payment
• Credit Cards are the only accepted method of payment
Buddy Rhodes Concrete Products training classes tend to fill up early, so schedule changes are difficult to accommodate. It is a good idea to keep your space in the training once you have registered. If you cannot attend a scheduled training, we have a cancellation policy with four options:
1. Notify us 7 days or earlier before class and reschedule your concrete products training for a later date at no charge.
2. Notify us 14 days or earlier before a training class and cancel for a $100 processing fee.
3. Notify us within 14 days of class and cancel for a $300 cancellation fee.
4. There are no reimbursements for no-shows or cancellations within seven days of a training.
Thank you for your understanding.
Student Comments:
"A very informative workshop in a friendly warm environment; it's nice to feel a part of the Buddy Rhodes family. "
Student from Florida
"Friendly, hands-on, practical information; I enjoyed the class from the learning perspective, but most of all enjoyed meeting all of you personally. You made my time here a pleasure - thanks."
Jim
"I liked everything about the workshop. You guys are all really comfortable to be around, and everyone was willing to share information. I only took the advanced class and was familiar with a lot - tried other bagged mixes and my own mix and nothing is as good as yours - but I still came away with much more than I went in with. Thank you thank you."
Candace from California
"I liked the hands on and the down to earth teaching of the staff. Thank you Buddy and staff; you made a dream come true for a hungry student!"
Dan
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TRAINING DATES in
San Francisco 2009–2010
One Day Basics
February 19
March 5
Three Day Comprehensive + GFRC
January 13–15
One Day GFRC with Brandon Gore
January 15
Three Day BRCP Artisan Pro Class
April 7–8–9
Decorative Concrete Dιcor Show
March 16–19
One day workshops are held on Fridays, and three day workshops are held Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
Accommodations: Buddy Rhodes recommends the
The Mosser Hotel
54 Fourth St.
SF,CA 94103
(800) 227.3804
email to inquire about Buddy Rhodes Workshop discount
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