Welcome to the jewelry fabrication workshop where students will make everything from soup to nuts! This includes stone setting as well as making your own chain, earring wires, clasps or closures. There will be options to create traditional and non-traditional bezels or bezel caps for longer stones like a crystal. Students interested in flexing their creative muscle will have the opportunity to create a stone-on-stone setting. This workshop will cover the basics of fabrication that includes sawing, filing and sanding, adding texture, soldering, sweat soldering, riveting, and stone setting. Please bring any cabochons, pebbles or crystals you have for design consideration. All tools are provided. Sterling silver and copper sheet, not including larger pieces of sterling silver sheet, will be available for purchase at the time of the class. A materials fee of $55-$75 will be due to the instructor at the time of class. 

Required Tools 

• Students are welcome to bring any pebbles, crystals and/or cabochons they have for design consideration.
• Anyone interested in working primarily in sterling silver is encouraged to purchase a 3x3 sheet of 22-guage sterling silver sheet. Rio Grande product number: 100597 (estimated cost $50)
• Eye magnification, if needed to see small detail
• A way to tie back longer hair.
• Small old hand towel to dry your metal pieces.
• Bibbed apron if you desire.
• Dust mask if you are bothered by fine dust particles.
• Fine black Sharpie pen.
• Pen and paper for note taking.

Optional Tools

• Tools will be provided, and sterling silver and copper will be available for purchase at the time of class. Students are welcome to bring their own hand tools. Hand tools we will most likely use include:
• Flush cutters
• Flat nose pliers – two pairs 
• Round nose pliers
• Half round pliers
• Needle file set.
• Half round file or flat file
• Jewelers saw and blades.
• Joyce Chen scissors or other metal shears
• Bezel setting tool and burnisher.
• Metal ruler with inches and millimeters