Combining blacksmithing and jewelry-making, this course offers an opportunity for beginning and advanced students to develop their skills as they forge and craft a Damascus ring with a silver liner. Students will begin by forging a piece of Damascus steel, a particularly beautiful and ornamental steel filled with folds and distinctive patterns. Making Damascus is hard work, and the class will work together to produce the material for everyone's individual projects. Students will then shape that steel into a ring blank to be lined with silver. Next, using a combination of hand and power tools, students will refine the ring to reveal the damascus pattern and the finished ring. Appropriate for total beginners and advanced students in blacksmithing, this is a great introduction to blacksmithing with a stunning handcrafted end product. Note: this course requires the use of sledge hammers and hand hammers for the first three days; thus, some physical stamina is necessary to complete the project.

You will need the following tools for this class:

• Safety glasses (Non tinted)
• Ear protection
• Welding gloves or other leather work gloves
• Natural fiber clothing only (no nylon clothing)
• Leather shoes or boots (boots are preferred)
• Clothing comfortable to be outdoors (long sleeves preferred for the first two days of class)
• Water bottle

Feel free to bring your favorite tools and whatever materials you might feel appropriate for this course.

• A preferred hand hammer
• A preferred set of metal files