Avi Hadad, the owner of Avi's Hardwood Floors, leads a Master Craftsman school at NWFA headquarters last week.
The National Wood Flooring Association held a Master Craftsman Training school at its training facility in Chesterfield, Mo., near St. Louis, last week from Feb. 16–20.
The Master Craftsman Training school requires participants to have completed at least one NWFA Advanced School and a minimum of five years’ experience working with wood floors.
School topics included jigs, medallions, an extreme makeover of an existing floor, parquetry and marquetry, staircases, non-linear installation, tapered boards, routing, hand scraping, reclaimed and wide-plank installation methods, and expert-level factory-finished installation.
The school’s instructors were NWFA Vice President of Education & Certification Brett Miller; Avi Hadad, Avi’s Hardwood Floors; Randy Harris, Hardwood Industry Products; and Wayne Lee, Middle Tennessee Lumber.
Hadad shared his thoughts about the class on day four in the video below.
The students were Tom Owen, Superior Coverings and Construction Inc.; Mike and Ben Totta, Totta Hardwood Flooring; Marcos Proti, CMC Hardwood Floors; Jason Vivash, J. L. Vivash Custom Wood Floors Ltd.; Ted McGloin, All American Hardwood Flooring; Warren Wilson, Accent Hardwood Flooring Inc.; Allen Townsell, ECMD Distribution; David Watson, David Watson; and Toby Merrill, Walk On Wood.
Partners in Education for the school were 3M, AdvanTech Flooring, Clarke American Sanders, Delmhorst Instrument Co., HydroFlow, Lignomat USA Ltd., Lockwood Flooring, Middle Tennessee Lumber, Pallmann USA, Powernail Company Inc., Primatech Inc., Quarter Saw Flooring, Rare Earth Hardwoods, Schmidt Custom Flooring, Sheoga Hardwood Flooring & Paneling, Somerset Wood Products Inc., Wagner Meters, Festool, Black & Decker, Glitsa, MAPEI Corp., Bostik Inc. and Weyerhaeuser.
A full schedule of upcoming training schools is available on the NWFA website.
More photos can be viewed on Middle Tennessee Lumber's Facebook page.
