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Learn jewelry-making by crafting your own custom stacking rings complete with stone settings.
After exploring material choices, you will learn the foundational skills of jewelry making with a focus on refining your jewelry bench skills and torchwork understanding. Fabricate using the flex shaft rotary tool, and hand tools, such as the jeweler’s saw, stamps, and files. Gain confidence using the torches to solder and anneal metal. You will then complete a basic stone setting on a sterling silver ring to finish off the class series. Create a bangle, several sterling silver rings, and a stone-set ring along the way. By the end of this series, walk away with the experience and guidance to develop your next sparkling jewel to add to your stack or gift to friends!
NextFab’s Maker Series is a three-month program that gains you 3 months of membership, 5 classes, unlimited shop access, and a cohort to learn alongside with. Registration closes on July 8th at 4:30 pm.
Monday, September 18th, 4:30 – 7:30 pm: Jewelry Orientation Monday, September 25th, 5:30 – 7:30 pm and Tuesday, September 26th, 5:30 – 7:30 pm: Jewelry Torchwork I Monday, October 2nd, 4:30 – 7:30 pm: Stone Setting I: Basic with Bezels Monday, October 9th, 4:30 – 7:30 pm: Group Session: Creating your Designs. This work session applies everything you have learned to create your stacking and nesting rings using stones found materials and metal. Work through several iterations of material usage and ideation with the inspiration of your colleagues.
To enroll in these classes, please complete an Ultimate-level membership agreement and select “Maker Series – Silversmithing Stacking Rings with Stone Settings.”
Day One: Jewelry Orientation: make a pet name tag, pair of earrings, or keychain Days Two and Three: Jewelry Torchwork I: make a bangle bracelet and 2 sterling silver rings Day Four: Stone Setting I: Basic with Bezels: make a sterling silver bezel set ring Day Five: Group Session: Creating your Designs – Work Session to apply everything you have learned and create your stacking and nesting rings using stones, found materials, and metal. Work through several iterations of material usage and ideation with the inspiration of your colleagues.
What’s Next: Continue your work by joining in on Support Hours offered weekly on Wednesdays in the Jewelry Studio with Caroline Gore.
Continue your work by joining in on Support Hours offered weekly on Wednesdays in the Jewelry Studio with Caroline Gore.
Let us know your prefered dates and times, and we’ll work with you to put something on the calendar. Please note we need at least 48 hours notice to schedule classes.