Balance Beam Bracelet Sunday 9 - 4:30 $145 Richard Salley
Student Level: Intermediate
Type of Workshop: Process and Project
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Add to your fabrication and metal working skills as you construct this handsome spring bracelet. Choose a stone, cabochon or bead as the focus of your bracelet. After being set in a bezel, it will balance on a copper "beam", framed at each end by spring clasp and a hinge.
Students will learn design of the bracelet as well as its components: bezel set stone, spring mechanism, clasp and hinge, shaping of metal, annealing and hardening. We will solder, shape, hammer our way to a cus tom fit bracelet. These skills and techniques can easily transfer to future projects of your own.
(Soldering experience will be helpful, but not essential as the basics will be discussed and demonstrated.)
Materials fee of $20 payable to Instructor at class time includes:
- Sheet copper and wire
- butane torches and fuel
- silver solder and flux
- sterling silver bezel wire
- liver of sulfur patina
- etching solution
- Soldering pad
- Solder Pick
- Turquoise Cabochon
Students should bring:
- Eye Protection & Ear Protection
- Bench Pin or Vise
- Bench block or Anvil
- Jeweler's saw and blades – yes, there will be sawing!
Optional:
- Texturing hammers or planishing hammers
- Dremel or other rotary tool with grinding/polishing attachments
Questions? Email Richad at art@rsalley.com
Website: rsalley.com