Beginner jewelry classES
Ring Making
With Skyler Rupnow
Saturday, July 25th (SOLD OUT) | 12:00pm – 3:30pm
Sunday, August 9th (Spots Available!)| 2:00pm – 5:30pm
Tuition: $140
To get on the waitlist please email info@thejewelerssaw.org
Ring making can seem intimidating, but it’s an essential part of jewelry making and is the perfect place to begin. In this hands-on ring making class, you’ll create your own sterling silver ring from scratch.
Not only will you leave with beautiful, wearable piece— you’ll also gain practical skills that can be applied to future jewelry projects.
Beginner: No experience needed!
Adult Makers Camp:
Metalsmithing Basics
With Rooster Gelderman
July 27th – July 31th
Monday – Friday, 10:00am – 3:00pm (lunch break included)
Tuition: $150 per day + Materials Fee
Join us for a hands-on summer jewelry camp that we’ve re-vamped for ADULTS. Come learn multiple techniques or just what you want, but meet likeminded creatives along the way.
Pick one day—or all five! Full Week Discount! $725 + $75 Materials Fee (tax included in materials price) – $85 off!
- Monday, July 27th – Texturing and Roller Printing
- Tuesday, July 28th – Sawing and Riveting
- Wednesday, July 29th – Enameling
- Thursday, July 30th – Chain Making
- Friday, July 31st – Assemblage
Anodizing Titanium
Limited opportunity to learn how to anodize titanium! Joining us from Virginia, Stefan will be teaching a 3-day intensive course on how he creates his anodized titanium bugs.
Payment plans available – email info@thejewelerssaw.org
All Levels Welcome!
Benchwork Basics: Beginner Jewelry
With Shalena White
Wednesday & Thursday Evening
July 15th – July 30th | 6:00pm – 10:00pm (6 sessions)
1 spot left!!
Tuition: $820
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.
Payment plans available—email info@thejewelerssaw.org
Beginner: No experience needed
Silver Stacking Rings
With Zach Wright
Monday, 6:00pm – 9:00pm
July 13th | July 20th | August 10th | August 30th | September 7th | September 28th
Tuition: $120
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.
Tube Setting
Join Zeineb for this fun tube setting class with an astrological theme. She will be teaching the skill of tube setting as well as how to create a pendant with multiple settings. You don’t have to do a constellation for your final project, but you will be soldering tubes to sterling silver sheet and setting multiple cubic zirconia into a one of a kind pendant regardless.
All Levels Welcome!
Hoop Earrings
Join Griselda for a creative day of making hoops, this is the perfect way to expand your existing skills or jump into jewelry making in general. In this class you will explore how to form a strip of metal sheet into cuffed hoops. You will take 4 hours to understand the basics of making a hoop, including sizing, texturing, and soldering an earring post. Griselda will walk you through the steps to making a brand new pair of beautiful handmade hoops. With the knowledge gained from this class you can make multiple iterations of these for others, only $15 an hour to use our studio space to make more hoops. Learn more about studio rental here.
All Levels Welcome!
Lapidary
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
Gold (Filled) Stacking Rings
This gold-filled stacking rings class is an excellent introduction to working with gold-filled and with gold solder.
You’ll make two classic round wire rings and one square wire ring, giving you the chance to experiment with form and texture while still mastering the basics. As a result, you’ll leave with not just finished jewelry, but also the confidence to solder gold-filled wire on your own!
Beginner: No experience needed
Build a Bezel: Stone Setting
with Issy Martel
Sunday, 11:00am – 4:00pm
July 26th | August 30th
Tuition: $200
Looking to improve your jewelry skills? This bezel setting class is the perfect place to start. In just four hours, you’ll learn how to create a simple bezel from scratch and finish your own handmade ring or pendant.
You’ll work with oval cabochon stones that range from 1–3 cm in diameter. At every step, you’ll gain essential skills and leave with a completed piece of jewelry.
Beginner: No prior experience required!
3-D Modeling
With Dante Simon
Sunday, August 2nd | 10:00am – 5:00pm
Tuition: $180
This class introduces jewelers to a complete, real-world workflow for 3D printing jewelry models
intended for casting. The focus is on practical, repeatable results and understanding how digital design
decisions affect printing success and downstream casting outcomes.
Dante will help you to understand how to design models that print reliably and cast cleanly.
Wax Ring
With Marcela Lochridge
August 17th, 18th, and 25th | 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Tuition: $400
25% of proceeds go to Casa Marienella
Marcela will teach students how to create a wax ring in the first two 3 hour session using traditional carving and modeling techniques and professional tools such as burs, files and jewelers wax. Over the next few days your ring will be cast via the “lost wax” method and on the third class day you will receive a solid metal cast of your ring. You will focus on bench work and learn sprue clean up, and finishing techniques. This is the perfect beginner course for someone who wants to learn the wax processes and jewelry finishing techniques!
This class will give 25% of proceeds towards Casa Marianella, a charity that provides safe housing and much needed supplies to displaced immigrants.
Beginner: No experience needed
Belt Buckle
With Rooster Gelderman
Saturday and Sunday, August 22nd & 23rd | 10:00am – 4:00pm
Tuition: $415
Learn to sand cast on a larger scale in bronze. Rooster will walk you through making impressions to create a larger design. Day One of the course will be spent discussing design for the green sand molding process. Each student will design a belt buckle out of modeling clay. Day Two will be spent molding and casting the designs and learning how to install belt buckle hardware. Students may choose between a darkened patina or polished finished for their belt buckle.
All Levels Welcome!
Carve and Cast
In this weekend intensive, Griselda will take the first day to show you the basics of carving a wax ring. After you carve the ring you will sprue and invest the creation. Overnight the wax will burnout in the kiln and you’ll come in the next day ready to cast. She will walk you through melting and pouring the metal and then show you basic sprue clean up and finishing techniques!
All Levels Welcome!
Benchwork Basics: Beginner Jewelry
With Shalena White
August 12th – 27th
Wednesday & Thursday evenings, 6:00 pm–10:00 pm (6 sessions)
Tuition: $820
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.
Payment plans available—email info@thejewelerssaw.org
Beginner: No experience needed