Student Level: Intermediate
Type of Workshop: Project
Prerequisite: knowledge of using a torch, know how to solder

Who doesn't love to watch metal melt! Reticulating silver creates mountains and valleys by melting the sterling silver alloy (80/20) metal to a precise heat. Every reticulation comes out different. Create your own reticulated pendant and learn a fast and easy way to set a stone in a tube setting and then solder the pieces together creating your own one-of-a-kind art piece pendant.

Techniques Learned: Reticulating sterling silver (80/20), Tube setting, Fusing Argentium, and Advanced soldering techniques, creating a hidden bail, and forming a ring.

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

• $25 includes:
• 1 1/4" x 1 1/4" sterling silver sheet
• thick wall tubing
• 3mm CZ
• 16 gauge Argentium round wire 2 3/4" long
• 18 gauge round sterling silver wire 1"
• Solder
• Fuel
• Liver of Sulfur
• Pickle
• Brass brush
• Bees wax to hold stone
• Student handout

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

• Bench pin, C clamp, solderite boards, torches, copper tongs, pickle pot, water bowl, cut off discs, third hand, self-locking tweezers, tube cutting vice, C-clamp to hold vise, Polisher with 3m wheels, flux, flux brush, 2 anvils, ring bending pliers, extra ring mandrels flat punch, Joyce Chin scissors, 3mm stone setting burs, wood dap set, Wubbers small bail pliers, flex shafts, lights, T pins, solder pick, yellow flux, white flux, extra tools for late registered students to use in class.

Student should bring:

• Jewelers saw frame and blades
• burnisher
• fine small flat file
• ring mandrel (if you don't want to share)
• mallet
• flush cutters
• safety glasses