Date: Friday, April 19, 2024, 12:30-7:30pm (CDT) (1hr break)
Instructor: Barrie Edwards
Skill Level: Confident Beginner
Class Description: Create the perfect harmony of prongs and a one-of-a-kind half-bezel setting. Elevate your skills by delicately balancing the cabochon's weight through the creation of a robust wall using rectangular wire, forming a truly unique "half-bezel" design.
Torch: Instructor will be demonstrating using an Orca torch, however any torch large enough for annealing will work. Blazers will not work.
Project Completion: students will have enough class time to finish the project.
Materials Kit: Silver stock, cabochon. Please indicate your stone choice. If one is not selected, one will be chosen for you.
Domestic US shipping included. (Please contact instructor directly to arrange for international or expedited shipping fees.)
(Materials kit is included in price when "Zoom/Kit combo" or "Kit only" option is selected.*)
Required Tools:
- Sharpie
- Chain nose pliers
- Side cutters (flush)
- Round nose
- Flat nose pliers
- Tube cutting pliers
- Digital calipers
- Fine tweezers
- Metal shears
- Divider
- Brass brush
- Metal ruler 6”
- Bench block
- Rawhide mallet or Nylon mallet
- Student files
- Needle files
- Jewelers’ saw
- Saw blades (2/o or 3/o)
- Cut lube or bees wax
- Bench pin
- Square Bezel pusher
- Third hand
- Digital calipers
- Fine tweezers
- Patina LOS or Jax Max
- Polish - tripoli
- Center punch
- Flex shaft with drill bits #54 (1.3mm - 16ga)
- Solder pick
- Butane, acetylene or propane torch.
- Magnesia block
- Soldering set up: solder board, tripod with mesh, pickle, fire tweezers, quench bowl, flux, copper tongs, silver solder paste or chips: Hard, Medium, Easy.
- Magnifying glasses (as needed)
*Note: You must choose either a Zoom or Zoom/Kit combo to receive written instructions. Kits will begin to ship April 3, 2024, unless otherwise arranged with instructor.
Zoom Recordings will be available for viewing until May 1, 2024. Additional time may be purchased ($12) by selecting the "Extend viewing time" option above.