jewelry classes

held twice a month on Saturday 9-1

Open studio is $15 per hour, or can be used to make up classes missed in the past 6 months.

Ten hour cards can be purchased for $100.

Open Studio Dates:

January: Saturday 14 and 21

February: Saturday 18 and 25

March: Saturday 10 and 17

April: Saturday 7 and 21

May: Saturday 5 and 19

Details

Classes are held in my Decatur studio.

There is a maximum of 5 students per class.

The fee for a six week session is $270.

50% nonrefundable deposit required to register, remainder due at the first class.

Students are allowed one make up class per session. You can make up a missed class during open studio, or at another class time if the space is available.

Open studio time is $15 per hour.

Basic hand tools are provided for the class to share. However, students are encouraged to acquire and use their own hand tools including sawframe /blades, snips, pliers, files, and flex shaft accessories.

here is list of Basic Tools

Supplementary hand tools are available as needed.

Students supply their own solder. Paste solder cannot be used without permission.

Judy Parady

Jewelry Making Classes winter I & II 2012

About Classes

I suggest you keep a record of your projects in a notebook, especially dimensions: gauges of metals used, sizes of jumprings, length of materials used to produce rings, bezels, or bangles of a certain size.

Each session I demo more techniques than you can use in 6 weeks. The sessions are structured in pairs with the same theme used in two sequential six-week sessions. This gives you the opportunity have several projects going at once, and complete at least one of them each session.

Choose a couple of the demonstrated techniques to incorporate in your primary project. Then design a second personal project to work concurrently. Often it is helpful to take a break from an intense project and just chill with something you are at ease doing. In class, if you have to wait to use a work station, or ask me a question you can still be productive with alternate projects.

Class size is small, no more than 5 students. Dedicated students progress quickly. That said, this is your class time, and you should do things that make you happy. Let me know how I can be of service.

Beginning students have their own projects to introduce basic metal skills: sawing /piercing, forming, soldering, bezel setting, finishing.

Winter Sessions We take advantage of the cold weather by cranking up the kiln to process a bit of silver into reticulated strangeness. Join us for a class or workshop to learn more about this specialty.

Stone Setting- prong set cabochons

I will show two variations on this theme- how to cut prongs or tabs from a bezel, and making prongs from round wire. Additional variations can be addressed as needed. Bring your special cabs to use for this.

Clasp - built-in box clasp

This exercise will cover how to incorporate a box clasp spring into a design element such as a metal bead, or chain link. I show how to construct the springy tab portion, together we find a way to include the receiving portion in your design.

Technique- reticulation

Through out the session we will be reticulating silver, and finding appropriate ways to use it.

Project- combining all of the above

Design a piece that uses elements of reticulation, features a prong- set cab, and closes with a variation on a box clasp.