Live Online Silver Jewellery Making Course. February and March 2024

Online silver jewellery course

Starting February 2024

5 sessions in February and March 2024 

Monday evenings live on Zoom

7.00pm - 9.00pm

Creative - Sociable - Fun

Who is this for:

Suitable for people who have some experience of making silver jewellery and who have their own set of tools at home. Tools are not provided.

Dates:

12th and 19th February

4th and 18th and 25th March

Fee £100.00

Additional introductory session on Monday January 29th 7.00pm:

Theme:

The theme to the term is making things that use rings or loops of silver. The projects vary from the return to basics to practice forming and soldering to more advanced projects setting facetted stones. All the projects will be new projects to previous students.

Class projects content:

• Forming, sawing and soldering silver jump rings of different shapes and gauges
• Linking loops together to make a simple chain with plenty of tips for soldering them together and what to do when something goes wrong
• How to make heavier oval linked chain with several design options. 
• Using a jump ring to set small facetted stones - This is a fun and simple way to add some sparkly stones to you pieces.
• Making an interlinked loop pendant.
• Setting a coin in two loops of silver

Materials needed:

Silver wire, sheet and solder - a selection of guages. Suggested list:

• Silver wire round suggest 50cm lengths of 1.00mm silver wire, 2.00mm, 1.5mm,1.2mm 
• Silver d-shaped wire* as narrow as you can find preferably 1.2mm wide make own if you have access to a rolling mill from 1.2mm or 1.5mm wire. Alternative is 1.2mm or 1.5mm silver round wire 1 metre long for necklace, less for bracelet .
• Facetted cubic zircon*, diamonds or sapphires 4mm suggested (but could be as small as 2.5mm)
• Stone setting burr* to match stone size eg 4mm for 4mm stone 
• Round burr* 3mm for 4mm stone, 2mm for 2.5mm stone
• Blunted centre punch or large nail
• Old coin that you would like to set as a double sided pendant
• Copper tube 1cm diameter or piece of thick brass strip to make a mandrel* or thick copper sheet

An optional materials pack is available at the time of booking that will contain some of the harder to source items.

Materials pack: 

The items with an asterisk in the above list are included in the pack

Contents of pack:

• Thin guage d-shaped silver
• Burrs x 2
• Metal for mandrels
• 4 x cubic zircons.

Packs ordered by 30th January will be dispatched in time to reach participants in time for the first session on 12th March, if you order the pack later it is not a problem, as the contents will not be required until the second session. Add to your order in the drop down menu. 

Equipment needed:

You will need a safe place to set up your workstation at home. 

Pliers - round nosed, snipe nosed, half round

Snips

Torch

Solder block

Safe heat station

Quench

Pickle + brass or plastic tweezers

Vessel for rinsing

Vessel for quenching

Tweezers - reverse action

Flux - borax cone + dish + brush

Hard and easy silver solder

Emery paper / emery sticks of various grades from 800 - 1200 grit

File

Hammer

Flat stake (or other suitable surface to hammer on)

Drill, preferably with hand piece or hand drill

1.00mm drill bit

Centre punch

Blunt centre punch or blunt large nail

Snips

saw + sawblades (recommend size 3/0) + benchpeg

Beeswax or cutlube

Hammer

Recommended - safety goggles

Round ended hammer

Flat stake

Ring stake mandrel

Doming block plus punches (useful but not essential)

Masking tape

Small piece of blu-tack or similar

Bench vice - very useful

Parallel flat nosed pliers, useful but not essential

Jeweller's loupe useful if settng smaller facetted stones

Other information:

If you haven't attended a virtual course with me before your fee includes an individual zoom session to help you get set up tims to be arranged.

Places limited - Small class size so you will have plenty of individual attention.

If you have any questions about this course do get in touch using the feedback form.

Please note that these session are live on zoom and are not routinely recorded so it is important to attend live to get the most out of the course.

This course will only run with if the minimum number of people are enrolled. If it does not run you will have any fee you have paid refunded.

Tools and materials are not provided. Following booking you will have the opportunity to talk to me about tools and materials.

If you have any questions about this course do get in touch using the feedback form.

The participants are responsible for their own safety whilst participating in this course.