Finally, Another Workshop!

You’ve been asking about when I’ll be teaching again, and this December your wish is my command.

Now that I’m feeling more energy I am coming back to the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen to teach my Integrated Prong Setting workshop. It’s perfect timing to learn a new technique while creating a gift for a special loved one (or yourself!)

December 2nd from 11am – 3pm $108.00 for PGC members and $120.00 for non-members

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Do you love stones? Do you wish you could add them to your jewelry but you don’t know how to set them? Is soldering something you either don’t know how to do or don’t have the set-up for?

In this class, you’ll learn how to set a cabochon stone using tools you already have – just a saw frame, drill, and bench pin. No torch necessary! You’ll saw and file your way to a beautiful pendant you can complete during class time. Learn a new technique and get a fabulous piece of jewelry you can wear home.

Students will learn how to create a prong setting integrated into a sheet of metal. Each participant will create a pendant out of brass, texture the metal, and pierce prongs to set a cabochon stone without needing to solder. You will leave with a completed project.

Skill level: Beginning jewelry and metalsmithing skills are helpful, but not required.

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The Latest Foldforming Workshop Student Pics

Samples by Dave Bear

Last weekend I taught yet another fabulous group of students foldforming. Each time I teach just four basic folds and each time my students translate them into amazing and unique designs. This time we had a blacksmith, a high school art teacher, an architect (it was actually his second time taking this class!), a jeweler who primarily casts her work, a beginning jewelry dabbler (for now, soon to be an addict), and a young woman who’ done some welding, but is just starting down her metalwork path.

Peruse the results:

Cuffs by Rod Spotts

Samples by Rod Spotts

Close up of the delicate lines by Barbara Bovell

Samples by second timer Ken Hammel

Samples and cuffs by Melissa Colucci

Samples and cuff by Dave Baer

Cuffs by Alya Kaiser

Doesn’t this sample by Alya just say it all?

Fold With Me October 3rd

You could make this! ©2011 WTEK

Just one month until my Fall Foldforming with Hammers workshop in Lancaster, PA! Sign up and join all the fun of pounding flat sheet metal into sculptural cuffs.

Plus October 3rd kicks off American Craft Week, so you’ll be a part of this nationwide event.

Saturday October 3rd 10am – 4pm
PA Guild of Craftsmen’s Center of American Craft
335 N. Queen St
Lancaster, PA 17603
717-431-8706

Have you ever wondered if metal could be folded like origami?

Student Samples by Ken Hammel from my class last year

Fold Forming is a technique where sheet metal is folded, worked, and then unfolded. Through this process, it is possible to quickly form the metal into gorgeous 3D shapes and textures. In this workshop, students will learn some of the basic folds using hammers, a torch, and vises. By the end of the day, each student will leave with at least one fold formed copper cuff and a variety of samples. This is a very physical technique and you will get dirty! Beginning jewelry and metalsmithing skills and a familiarity with using a torch are extremely helpful, but not required.

$135.00 for members of the PA Guild of Craftsmen, $150.00 for non-members $35.00 materials fee payable to me at the time of class