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Notice: The club may not be open on some Canadian holidays, or due to weather conditions, or key holder personal situations, so please call (604) 466-4938 or check our facebook page before coming in on those days.
Shop Hours - As of Apr 10, 2023
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Tuesday, - 9:00am -> 9:00pm
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Wednesday - 9:00am -> 9:00pm
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Thursday - Closed
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Friday - 9:00am -> 9:00pm
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Friday - Family drop-in - 6:00pm -> 9:00pm
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Saturday - 9:00am -> 12:00pm
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Sunday - Closed
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Monday - Closed
Carving Workshop Apr 16



Potential Workshops
Title | Image | Description |
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01) Abalone Shell | Create jewelry pieces from abalone shell | |
02) Mokume Gane | Japanese metalworking procedure which produces a mixed-metal laminate with distinctive layered patterns | |
03) Keum Boo | Korean gilding technique used to apply thin sheets of gold to silver, to make silver-gilt. | |
04) Precious Metal Clay (PMC) | PMC work consists of very small particles of metal such as silver, gold, bronze, or copper mixed with an organic binder and water. It can be shaped just like any soft clay. After drying, the clay can be fired and the binder burns away, leaving the pure sintered metal. | |
05) Polymer Clay | Polymer Clay is a type of hardenable modeling clay. A liquid is added to dry particles until it achieves gel-like working properties, the part is put into an oven to harden. Art made from polymer clay can now be found in major museums. | |
06) Knife Making | Hard steel with hard rock! | |
07) Collet Setting (Bezel Punch) | Flare a metal tube to hold a facetted stone. | |
08) Acid Etching | Acid Etching is the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. | |
09) Patinas | Different patinas on metals | |
10) Blacksmith Jewelry | ||
11) Tool Making | ||
12) Stamping | ||
13) Ammolite | How to work Ammolite for jewelry | |
14) Cabbing for Beginners | From rough rock to cabochon | |
15) Small Cabs | ||
16) Free Form Cabs | ||
17) Spinner Ring 3 kinds | Center band is free to turn | |
18) Sand Casting | ||
19) Lost Wax Casting | Also called Investment Casting - is the process by which a duplicate metal sculpture (often silver, gold, brass or bronze) is cast from an original sculpture. Intricate works can be achieved by this method. | |
20) Silver Wire Crochet | ||
21) Wire Wrapping | Wire wrapping is taking wire and wrapping it around itself and/or beads and other components to create jewelry. Wire wrapping can be used to make a loop for joining different components together, such as when creating a wrapped wire loop or wrapping a pendant. | |
22) Wire Weaving | Wire weaving is looping thin wire around a heavy wire frame in a pattern. | |
23) Enamelling - Standard | Enamels can be applied to glass, ceramics, and most commonly, metals. The application of enamels can add color to metals such as copper, silver, and gold. The enamel melts, flows, and fuses to the surface in a smooth coating when heat is applied. | |
24) Enamelling - Champleve | Champlevé is an enamelling technique in which troughs or cells are carved, etched, die struck, or cast into the surface of a metal object, and filled with vitreous enamel. The piece is then fired until the enamel fuses, leafing the uncarved portions exposed. | |
25) Enamelling
Plic-a-jour | Plique-à-jour (French for "letting in daylight") is a vitreous enamelling technique where the enamel is applied in cells, so light can shine through the transparent or translucent enamel. | |
26) Hydraulic Press | Use of pre-shaped cutting patterns | |
27) Repousse/Chasing | Repoussé is a metalworking technique in which a malleable metal is shaped by hammering from the reverse side to create a design in low relief. Chasing or embossing is a similar technique in which the piece is hammered on the front side, sinking the metal. | |
28) Reticulation | Reticulation produces a ridged or ripply surface through controlled heating. The ridges of a reticulated surface are more pronounced than any other surface treatment, looking like a moonscape or a relief map. | |
29) Granulation | Granulation is a manufacturing technique whereby a surface is covered in spherules or granules of precious metal. Basic techniques to attach granules to a metal surface are: hard soldering, fusing and colloidal soldering. | |
30) Niobium | This is anodized niobium with gold filled and silver. Light reflects differently at different angles. It is a reversible piece. | |
31) Fold Forming | Fold Forming is a technique of metalworking whereby metal is folded, repeatedly forged and annealed, and unfolded; at which stage it generally has a dramatic new three-dimensional form. | |
32) Copper Bowls | ||
33) Copper Flowers | ||
34) Soapstone Carving | ||
35) Shibuichi | Shibuichi is a historically Japanese copper alloy, a member of the irogane class, which is patinated into a range of subtle greys and muted shades of blue, green, and brown. Kashira is made of dark-finished shibuichi, with gold highlights | |
36) Filigree | Filigree is a form of intricate metalwork.It is usually of gold and silver, made with tiny beads or twisted threads, or both in combination, soldered together or to the surface of an object of the same metal and arranged in artistic motifs. | |
37) Electroforming | Electroforming is a metal forming process in which parts are fabricated through electrodeposition on a model, known as a mandrel. The process involves passing direct current through an electrolyte containing salts of the metal being electroformed. | |
38) Electroplating | Electroplating is a method to put a metal coating onto an object, in our case a piece of jewellery, by placing it in a solution containing the metal to be plated and passing an electrical current through the piece and the solution. | |
39) Electro Etching | Electro-etching uses electricity rather than chemical mordants to etch metal. Instead of strong acid mordants, electro-etching requires milder chemical solutions, such as copper sulfate, silver nitrate, or other dry chemicals. | |
40) Pencil Crayon on Copper | ||
41) Disk Cutter Jewelry | Using a hydraulic press to cut metal jewelry pieces | |
42) Silver Chain Making | ||
43) Tiffany Style Jewelry | Using low temperature soldering | |
44) Get to know your large saw | ||
45) Intarsia | Cutting and fitting together small pieces of stone to create unique designs |
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