Silhouette Pendant Tuesday 9 - 4:30 $145 Melissa Manley July 31
Student Level: Beginner
Type of Workshop: Process and Project
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Oh, Willoughby! During the Regency period, cutting silhouettes was a simple way to achieve a likeness of your loved ones. If you’ve seen the movie Sense and Sensibility you saw Marianne Dashwood trace an silhouette image of her dashing Willoughby . There is something so nostalgic and charming about these snippets of a bygone age. Join us as we make little metal silhouette pendants accentuated by felt. If you do not know how to saw with a jeweler’s saw, now is your chance! I can teach you how to utilize this essential jewelry tool with ease and grace. You might even fall in love with sawing. And there is SO much you can do with this skill! I will then show you how to finish your metal pieces using sanding pads, jewelry files and rotary tool attachments. Then we will sandwich our pendants together with felt and use cold connections to join them. This will be a great class to learn or perfect your sawing, riveting and finishing skills. I will bring the metal you will need and drill bits to fit wire to make rivets that will all be in a kit. Students should be able to complete at least one pendant.
Kit fee of $12 payable to Instructor at class time includes
- 2- 2”x2” pieces of copper
- one 2”x2” piece of nickel
- one 2”x2” piece of Nugold
- wire
- tubing for rivets
Students should bring:
- A silhouette to saw out -bring a black and white image, preferably ½”, and definitely no larger than 3/4” wide. You can take your photo to a copy machine, or modify a photo in a digital retouching program. This can be any image possibly even a pet!
- Felt
- Scissors
- A small jar of rubber cement
- A jeweler’s saw
- #2/0 and #3/0 sawblades the ( /0 is very important)
- a benchpin
- a metal block
- a centerpunch
- a chasing hammer
- a small portable hand drill or dremel
- a chain for your pendant
- jewelry files
- 3M “Superfine” sanding pad found in hardware store paint departments
- an extra fine sharpie
Questions? Email Melissa at melissamanleymetal@yahoo.com
Website melissamanleystudios.blogspot.com