The Jeweler's Saw
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Beginner Classes
Silver Stacking Rings
With Zach Wright
Dates: Mondays, 6 – 9pm
April 21st | April 28th | May 12th | May 26th
Tuition: $105 all materials included (tax included in materials price
Make your own sterling silver stacking rings—no experience needed! You’ll saw, 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.
Jewelry Techniques 1
With Shalena White
MAY DATES:
April 29th – May 15th
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 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
Intro to Casting
With Jason Spencer
Dates: Friday – Sunday, 10am – 5pm
May 2nd – 4th (3 sessions)
Tuition: $540 + $30 Materials Fee (tax included in materials price)
Unlock the art of lost wax casting in this hands-on class focused on wax carving and casting techniques. Participants will learn the basics of carving designs using hand tools to create models for casting as well as going through the casting process.
Throughout the course, we will explore:
Wax Carving Fundamentals: Master the basics of wax sculpting, including tools, techniques, and design principles to bring your ideas to life.
Casting Methods: Gain practical experience in setting up and operating both centrifugal and vacuum casting equipment. Understand the strengths and applications of each method.
All Levels: No experience needed, open to all skill levels
Bezel Stone Setting
With Jennifer Le Dissez
DATES: Sundays, 11am – 4pm
April 27th
Tuition: $150 + $15 kit fee (tax included in materials price
- Filing, sanding with the flex shaft, sizing a ring and forming
- Sizing a cabochon for a bezel and soldering it to a backplate .
- Bezel set stone
- Stamp with your choice of letters and symbols
This course helps students gain confidence in discovering basic jewelry designs and students will have a finished sterling silver bezel set gemstone pendant or ring.
All Levels: No experience needed, open to all skill levels
Using the Micro-Welder for Permanent Jewelry and Fabrication
With Alaine Hutson
Dates: Wednesdays, 2pm – 3:30pm
April 16th
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
April 22nd (FULL) | May 6th (FULL) | May 20th
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
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