Interchangeable Enamel Pendant with Turquoise Stone Sunday, March 3 $ 145 Janet Alexander 9:00 -4:00
Student Level: Beginner
Type of Workshop: Project - Student will complete the project in class
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This class is packed full of new skills for any metal smith! Create this beautiful pendant with a changeable center dome! The center stone is really a threaded screw that feeds through the domed piece and screws into the base! No nuts about it! You will learn how to use a tap and die to create threads on the end of a copper wire, and carve threads into the textured base. A cabochon setting with a Turquoise stone is soldered on top of the copper wire and acts as the top of the screw. You will also make two small domed pieces and enamel them with a torch to create separate decorations for the center area!
Techniques Taught
Soldering
Annealing metal
Sawing metal
Finding the center of a circle
Straightening wire technique
Texturing metal with a hammer
Using a disc cutter
Doming metal
Drilling metal
Using a tap and die
Torch enameling
Using a torch
Using a millimeter gaugeStudent Kit fee of $35 payable to Instructor at class time includes:
16-gauge copper wire (1/2”)
24-gauge 17mm x 20mm copper sheet
20-gauge 32mm x 25mm copper sheet base
Enamels
Clear flux enamel
5 mm turquoise stone
5 mm bezel cup
2 part epoxy
3ea. saw blade
Silver Black
Dust mask
Pickle solution
2 copper jump rings
Klyr-Fire
600 sandpaper
Toothpick
Small plastic bag
Class handoutStudent Supply List:
Jewelers saw frame
Permanent fine point marker
Small anvil
Ball peen hammer
Needle nosed pliers
Wire cutters
Flat fileOptional: Optivisor or magnifying glasses and task light
Supplies Provided by Teacher:
Klyr-Fire set of pliers brush for Klyr-Fire wire cutters metal shears Solder bricks (2 for each student) double sided tape Extension cords 1 lighter Electric plug strips hot plate Woodrow red enamel (2880) (Pre-washed) drill bits – 2mm, and 1 1/2mm lime color enamel (Pre-washed) news paper Yellow enamel (Pre-washed) 3 ea. Scissors Clear enamel (2020) (Pre-washed) copper tongs bench vise cookie sheet (1 for each student) bench pins and clamps paper towels paper towels 2 extra propane torches pickle pot rotary tool pickle solution handy wipes fire extinguisher water drill bits distilled water bowl for water torch fuel large garbage bag Diamond burs 3 ea. trivet Small mesh sifters (5 ea) 3 ea. firing racks ball peen hammers texture hammers disc cutter dapping set easy solder paste flux third hand and tweezers (3ea) 3 ea. brushes for flux solder picks drill press for flex shaft flex shaft bur wax 2ea. steel anvils table protection rawhide mallet brass hammer tweezers black marker solder boards 3 ea. 2 part epoxy tap & die set center finder template triangle templates small screen for pickle pot vice grips for tap punch
Questions? Email Janet at janetalexander22@yahoo.com
Website: janetalexander.net