Potential Workshops

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