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| JEWELRY MAKING I (C) Jacqueline Gore Get acquainted with the basic tools of the jewelers’ craft and their proper use. Learn about cold connections; a method of joining metals without soldering, as you make a pair of earrings. Additionally, you will practice joining pieces of copper using different soldering techniques with torches. You will make a sterling silver ring as you learn about surface embellishment techniques. You may buy materials from your instructor as needed.
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| SILVERSMITHING I Deanna Lea Jacobsen This introductory class will acquaint the student with the basic skills and tools necessary to the silversmith. You will design and construct a pendant or charm out of sterling silver and then put your finished piece on a chain that you have created out of silver wire. You will learn to solder using a torch, learn to use the jeweler’s saw and learn how to use files and sandpaper to finish your piece. Decorative stamps and hammers as well as patinas will be used to embellish the surface of the silver.
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ADVANCED JEWELRY MAKING (C) Prerequisite: Metalsmithing I
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| SILVERSMITHING II Deanna Lea Jacobsen This advanced class will teach you the techniques of decorative overlay and stone setting. You will make a brooch using an overlay technique to put an image on the silver. You will learn to make a bezel and set a stone as well as how to make, and attach, a pin-back to your piece. Make a pair of earrings using a bezel set stone and silver wire. All of these techniques: stone setting, stamping, hammering and patinas will be used to add dimension and interest to your pieces. Prerequisite: Silversmithing I
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| JEWELRY MAKING: LOST WAX CASTING Harold Donnenberg This class will teach students the basic skills necessary to create jewelry using the lost wax casting technique. The first class you will be given your model makers kit and taught the basics of the lost wax casting process. I'll go through the different tools and waxes in the kit and explain how each of them are used. You will be shown how to make a wax model that can be cast into a piece of silver jewelry. Castings will be done off premises by the instructor and returned the following week for to be finished by the students. The remainder of the first class and the following classes will be spent working on waxes and finishing castings.Students should come with ideas for at least seven projects to work on in class (pictures from catalogs or simple sketches will be fine).
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