Date: Sunday, April 30, 2023, 1:30 - 4:30pm (CST)
Instructor: Laura Stamper
Skill Level: Beginner
Pre-requisite: Fusing sterling and fine silver VEC Short or previous experience.
Class Description: This is a great class for beginners! These highly textured rings look complicated, but are a great project for beginners or students who want to increase their jeweler’s vocabulary with organic materials. Students will gain basic skills in making bezels for unusually shaped rough stones and learn basic fabrication skills. Who says sticks and stones can’t be a work of art? Students who purchase the kit will receive their choice of a quartz crystal bar or a chunk of rough citrine.
Project Completion: students will have enough time to finish during live class.
Materials Kit: silver stock, rough natural quartz or citrine.
Domestic US shipping included. (Please contact instructor directly to arrange for international or expedited shipping.)
(Materials kit is included in price when "Zoom/Kit combo" or "Kit only" option is selected.)
Required Tools:
- Sharpie
- Flat nose pliers
- Side cutters (flush)
- Fine tweezers
- Flex shaft
- Flex shaft bits:
- sanding discs and mandrel
- Steel ring mandrel
- Ring sizer
- Solder pick
- Bench block
- Rawhide mallet or Nylon mallet
- Bezel shears
- Curved Burnisher
- Bezel Rocker
- Square bezel pusher
- Prong pliers or prong pusher
- Setting burnisher set (for tube setting)
- Jewelers’ saw
- Saw blades (2/o)
- Cut lube or Bee’s wax
- Bench pin
- Sand paper
- Basic soldering set up: butane torch, butane, solder board or the like, tripod with mesh, pickle, fire tweezers, quench bowl, flux, copper tongs, silver solder: Hard, Med. Easy.
*Note: Kit only and extra kit options do not include instructions or recording. You must choose either a Zoom or Zoom/Kit combo to receive written instructions. Kits will begin to ship April 11, 2023, unless otherwise arranged with instructor.
Zoom Recordings will be available for viewing until May 10, 2023. Additional time may be purchased ($12) by selecting the "Extend viewing time" option above.
