The Jeweler's Saw
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Beginner Classes
Lapidary
With Zach Wright
Date: Tuesdays, 10am – 1pm
September 3rd | September 17th
Tuition: $150.00
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
Silver Stacking Rings
With Zach Wright
Date: Mondays, 6-9pm
September 9th | September 23rd
Tuition: $90 all materials included (tax included in materials price)
Learn how to create your own stacking rings out of sterling silver! This beginner class teaches you how to saw, solder, form and finish three rings. Each student will get to use standard metalsmithing tools of the trade as well as solder on a torch. Two round and one twisted wire ring will be completed in this course.
Beginner: No experience needed
Keum Boo and Riveting
With Agnes Seebass
Dates: Tuesday and Thursday Evenings 6-9pm
October 1st – 10th (4 sessions)
Tuition: $300 + $65 Kit Fee (tax included in materials price)
The first section of this course will focus on learning how to make cold connections with both wire and tube rivets to create works that have movable sections, are decorative and have spacers in between layers.
Students will also learn how to imprint metal with the rolling mill for textures and other patterns to incorporate into their keum boo project.
The second section of this course will dive into the gold of the keum boo process. Keum Boo is an ancient art of fusing gold to other metals that originated in Asia. Students will learn to apply the gold to their works with the use of heat and burnishing. Argentium will be the main other metal of this course for the final design where students will be encouraged to create a work using their skill set and new riveting skills to create a pendant and/or earrings.
Gold is not included in the kit fee. It will be available for purchase through the instructor during class.
All Levels: No experience needed, open to all skill levels
Enameling on 3-D Copper Forms
With Sarah Perkins
Dates: Friday – Sunday, 10am – 5pm
November 1st – 3rd (3 sessions)
Tuition: $565
This workshop will address enameling on three-dimensional copper forms using both wet and dry application techniques. We will begin with pre-made seamless forms and alter them slightly with hammers if desired. The emphasis in this class will be on different ways of achieving line on enameled forms. Some of the techniques we will use for this essential element of visual design will include stenciling, diamond burs, and glass threads and chips, with a focus on combining and layering techniques. Attention to the final finish on pieces, a make-or-break design element will also be addressed.
The techniques learned can also be applied to jewelry scale work.
All Levels: No experience needed, open to all skill levels
**Students should bring their materials – see the description for the list**
Jewelry Techniques 1
With Shalena White
September 30th – October 16th, 6pm – 10pm
Monday and Wednesday Evenings (6 sessions)
Tuition: $600 + $70 Materials Fee (all sterling silver)
(tax included in materials price)
Learn the basics of jewelry making in this three-week duration course (6 sessions). The course will cover sawing, soldering, finishing, texturing, and stone setting a cabochon for a pendant or ring.
Techniques covered: sawing basic shapes, filing, sanding by hand and with the flex shaft, sizing a ring, forming, dapping a ring to flare, polishing on the buffing wheels, sizing a cabochon for a bezel and soldering it to a backplate.
This course is designed to have students leave confidently to execute basic jewelry designs on their own.
A perfect follow-up to our Silver Stacking Rings course and a good foundation for continuing practice in our Guided Studios.
Beginner: No experience needed
Using the Micro-Welder for Permanent Jewelry and Fabrication
With Alaine Hutson
OCTOBER DATES COMING SOON
Tuition: $37.50 + $17.50 Materials Fee (tax included in materials price)
This course will go over how to use our PUK III micro-welder safely and show 4 common ways the welder is used – closing jump rings, connections for permanent jewelry, ring sizing, and tacking elements into place for easy soldering fabrication. Students will leave class with a dainty silver ring featuring a 2mm punch bezel set stone and a permanent sterling silver or gold-filled bracelet.
Basic and above: Jewelry 1 skills required – basic soldering from any class including simple rings, etc.