Student Level: experienced beginner, intermediate
Type of Workshop: Project/Process
Prerequisite: should be comfortable with beginning jewelry making skills and very basic soldering. There will only be some light soldering of ear wires, posts, jump rings, or bails.

SPICULUM: Noun= Small hollow pointed form (Very useful in jewelry making).

This is a two day adventure in anticlastic metal forming; you will be building on skills learned along the way. Projects will be an adjustable anticlastic formed ring and formed spiral earrings, with a spiral necklace demo for those who want more. Second day starts with a pair of open ended spiculum earrings or closed spiculum drop earrings, moving on to a free-form textured pendant with or without a soldered seam, or, if you choose to finish with a hollow torque neck element or to finish up any of our previous projects. Anticlastic forming requires several different hammers and wood forms. We will discuss what tools and stakes you can make and what you can do without in the beginning.

Brass and copper sheet and silver bi-metal will be provided, but feel free to work in silver if you are comfortable with the challenge. Contact instructor for required size/ gauges for silver.

Kit/Materials Fee (payable to instructor at class time):

• $65.00 includes:
• metal and patterns to work with and all expendables for both days. Kit includes copper & brass sheet and silver bi-metal in different gauges needed to make the projects, 20g silver wire for earring posts/ ear wires and use of torches, fuel, hammers, anvils and hand tools to share. ( Students may bring their own Sterling silver if they want to work in that.) email instructor for details. Rings are always nicer in silver

Instructor Provided (for use in-class, and to share):

• cross peen
• hammers
• Nylon cross peen forming hammers
• rubber mallets
• wooden forming stakes to share
• torches for annealing /soldering
• fuel
• pickle
• ring mandrel
• finger sizer gauge
• grinder/ buffer
• tumbler
• rolling mill
• scratch brushes
• mounted vises, anvils, stumps, hammers & mallets and a few saws & hand tools and a flex shaft to share. (let me know if you need to use my hammers, and wood stakes so I have enough, as well as reserving a vise if necessary)

Student should bring:

• smooth bench block 2"x2" or larger
• medium cut flat file, or inside ring file (which is flat on one side, rounded on the other)
• metal shears
• sanding stick
• bench pin with clamp
• optivisor and/or safety glasses
• Your own sturdy clamp-on vice with 3" C clamps (we will have 6 to share if you cannot bring your own - EMAIL me to reserve one for your use)

Optional:

• Planishing hammer or small polished or smooth Ball Peen hammer, or closing hammer
• jewelers saw & blades
• nylon or Delrin cross peen hammers (smaller sizes) see links
• ring mandrel
• basic hand tools ( pliers, files, shears, ruler, leather mallet) as well as a personal light.
• If you have any sinusoidal stakes in metal, wood or Delrin or small forming blocks...(like the ones purchased from me) ...bring them or any forming hammers cross peens and texturing hammers you may already have.
• I will have nylon cross peen hammers/mallets and wood stakes available for purchase.
• These links show the type of tools we will be using:
• nylon forming hammers in several different sizes like these: CLICK HERE OR CLICK HERE
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• * Feel free to contact instructor for suggestions for tools and vise set up.