The Jeweler's Saw
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Beginner Classes
Flat Casting in Sand – Broaches, Pendants, and Buttons, Oh My!
With Alex Gelderman
DATE: Sunday June 1st, 10 am – 6 pm
Tuition: $210 + $35 Materials Fee (tax included in materials price)
Learn the basics of sand casting in this hands-on beginner class. You’ll sculpt a small wax model, create a sand mold, and pour molten bronze using a torch. We’ll guide you through essential techniques like part lines, wax sculpting, mold preparation, sand mold packing, torch firing metal, sawing, chasing, and basic patination.
Leave with your own finished bronze casting (about ½” x ½”) and a solid foundation in small-scale metal casting.
All Levels: No experience needed, open to all skill levels
Stacked and Set: Silver Rings with a Bezel Set Stone
With Zach Wright
Dates: Mondays, 6pm – 9:30pm
June 16th | July 21st
Tuition: $150 all materials included (tax included in materials price)
Create a stunning trio of sterling silver rings – complete with a gemstone accent! In this beginner-friendly class, you’ll learn how to fabricate and solder stacking rings from wire, then add a cabochon stone using a bezel setting cup. We’ll cover the essentials of shaping, soldering, and finishing techniques.
Each student will leave with three stackable rings – two classic bands and one featuring a bezel-set gemstone – all made by hand using professional jeweler’s tools.
This is a perfect class if you’re new to jewelry or looking to expand your skills with a fun, creative project. Come solo or bring a friend — either way, you’ll go home with handmade rings and a new favorite hobby.
Beginner: No experience needed. Ages 16 and up.
Silver Stacking Rings
With Zach Wright
Dates: Mondays, 6 – 9pm
May 26th | June 9th | July 7th
Tuition: $105 all materials included (tax included in materials price
Make your own sterling silver stacking rings—no experience needed! You’ll solder, shape, and finish three rings (two round, one twisted) using real metalsmithing tools and a torch. Come get hands-on with metal and leave with rings you made yourself!
Beginner: No experience needed. The minimum age requirement is 16 and above.
Benchwork Basics: Jewelry Foundations
With Shalena White
June 10th – June 26th
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6pm – 10pm (6 sessions)
Tuition: $720 + $70 Materials Fee (all sterling silver)
(tax included in materials price)
Learn the basics of jewelry making in this three-week course, 6 sessions.
Techniques covered: sawing basic shapes, filing, sanding by hand and with the flex shaft, sizing a ring, forming, dapping a ring to flare, polishing, sizing a cabochon for a bezel, soldering it to a backplate, granulation, and bezel setting.
This course helps students gain confidence and independently execute basic jewelry designs.
A perfect follow-up to our Stacking Rings course and a good foundation for continuing learning in Benchwork Beyond: Building on Foundations.
Beginner: No experience needed
Young Makers Jewelry Camp
With Taylor Scott and Alex Gelderman
JUNE CAMP: June 16th – 20th, Monday – Friday, 10am – 2pm (lunch break included)
JULY CAMP: July 7th – 11th, Monday – Friday, 10am -2pm (lunch break included)
Tuition: $120 per day + Materials Fee (tax included in materials price)
Pick one day—or all five! Full Week Discount! $500 + $50 Materials Fee (tax included in materials price)
Join us for a hands-on summer jewelry camp where kids and teens ages 11-17 will learn real metalsmithing techniques in a fun, safe, and creative environment! Whether you come for just one day or the whole week, each session offers a new project and skill set—from forming and sawing to soldering and casting. Students will explore tools like hammers, torches, and jeweler’s saws while making their own wearable art alongside other young artists.
Here’s what we’re making each day:
Monday – Forming on Copper – Start with a flat sheet of copper and transform it into a small vessel, like a bowl! Kids will learn how to hammer and shape metal—an exciting and foundational technique in metalsmithing. $15 Material Fee
Tuesday – Sawing and Riveting – Design and saw out your own shape, then learn to cold-connect it to a backing plate with rivets. Mastering the jeweler’s saw is a big step toward creative freedom in jewelry making! $10 Material Fee
Wednesday – Stacking Rings – Let’s stack them up! Make stackable rings in brass and copper. Learn how to size, solder, hammer texture, form and patina a beautiful stack of rings! $5 Material Fee
Thursday – Chain Design – Create your own chain design by making and soldering jump rings. It’s both impressive and meditative—and by the end of the day, you’ll have your very own handmade chain. $5 Material Fee
Friday – Sand Casting – Learn the amazing process of sand casting molten metal to create custom jewelry pieces. It’s approachable, exciting, and seriously cool. $20 Material Fee
All Levels: No experience needed, open to all skill level
Using the Micro-Welder for Permanent Jewelry and Fabrication
With Alaine Hutson
Dates: Wednesdays, 2pm – 3:30pm
May 21st | May 28th | June 11th | June 25th
Tuition: $45 + $17.50 Materials Fee (tax included in materials price)
This course will teach students the basics of how micro welders work, go over how to use our PUK III micro-welder safely and 2 common ways the welder is used – closing jump rings and welding connections for permanent jewelry. Students will leave class certified to rent time to use our welder and with a permanent sterling silver or gold-filled bracelet.
Basic and above: Jewelry 1 skills required – basic soldering from any class including simple rings, etc.
Lapidary
With Zach Wright
Dates: Tuesdays, 10am – 1pm
May 20th (1 Spot Left) | June 3rd | July 8th | July 22nd
Tuition: $150
If you would like to be added to the waitlist, please email us at info@thejewelerssaw.org!
Learn to cut rough stones into beautiful cabochons that you can set into jewelry. Each class is designed to teach how to cut rough and use a series of lapidary wheels to shape and buff the stone out.
Our lapidary classes cap at 3 students per session so the class is very personal with the instructor similar to a private lesson.
All Levels: No experience needed, open to all skill levels