This condensed exploration of metalworking fundamentals is perfect for those who have always wanted to learn jewelry-making but never had the time. Saw, anneal, solder, file, texture, create inlay, and more while creating one-of-a-kind jewelry!

Learn the art of photo-etching and other resist-style etching methods for brass, copper, and silver!  Students will learn how to transfer and add images to metal and then how to use both an acid bath and an electrolytic setup to etch the metal, leaving behind a desired image or pattern. Cuff bracelets, earrings, and pendants will be covered in addition to non-jewelry components like roller printing plates.

In the course, students will learn all about hinges, hinged closures, and catches that are highly suitable for bracelet construction when you want a large, yet flexible clasp option.

This workshop will help jewelers and enamelists approach the setting aspect of the jewelry making process as an integral part of their design, starting with examining historic and contemporary examples to help develop design strategies and moving into learning two styles of reverse settings, simple and advance tab cutting, placement for findings, strategies for properly fitting back plates, preparation of the tabs, notching prongs, and safe setting techniques. 

Create a fantastically original necklace with individual components that have been composed to both please the eye and move comfortably on the body. Students will focus on a necklace construction method that can be used with basic polymer skills or the most complex of canes. creating a variety of effects using wire armatures and linking system, fitting the complex curves of the body, how to create individual components with marquetry techniques, as well as how to carve, add textures, arrange, and connect components.

Rings, rings, rings! In this intensive 3-day workshop, students will learn to fabricate numerous styles of rings, including a band ring with a set cabochon stone, a tube-set faceted gemstone ring, a 3-band intertwined Russian wedding band, and a spinner ring *time permitting!  Wendy will teach students to saw, file, use a torch to anneal and solder, hammer, form, polish, and many more fundamental and transferable metalsmithing skills that will result in some beautiful rings

Over this intensive 2-day workshop, students will not only learn about flush setting tools and how to properly use the flush setting technique, but will endeavor to perfect it by setting numerous stones, becoming more proficient from one to the next. With guidance, tips, and tricks from the instructor every step of the way, students can expect to leave with finished flush set pieces of jewelry they can show off to their loved ones!

This workshop is a perfect introduction to many of the basics in jewelry making! Learn the fundamentals of sawing, filing, annealing, polishing, and of course forming. Finish up the day with at least two unique, textured cuff bracelets you can wear home. 

Every jeweler eventually tires of buying typical stones and setting them in conventional settings. Come spend five days with Michael Boyd and learn how to cut and polish your own cabochons with limitless shape, size, and color options, as well as how to design using stone as a medium--not only an accessory!