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Consolidate and Advance Jewellery Making Skills, Stages 4 to 7. Saturday
July 1, 2017 @ 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
$460.00
About This Class
Class Schedule
- The classes for each stage are three hours per week over a six week period. Note there is no class on Easter Saturday.
What You Will Learn
- Continue to advance your jewellery skills. You must have completed either Stages 1 to 3 or have demonstrated jewellery skills.
- Projects will be developed as a group and individually to accommodate different skill levels. Set projects are detailed below.
- Consolidate, improve and advance your jewellery making skills.
What You Get
- Your project jewellery.
- Skills developed include sawing, soldering, shaping and filing, melting metal, gem setting in various forms, shaping ring shanks and polishing.
- Consolidation and development of your jewellery making skills.
Description
Continue to advance your jewellery skills.
There is set project work in stages 4 to 7 to advance and consolidate your jewellery making skills as follows:
- Stage Four – Facetted Gem Drop Earrings.
- Stage Five – Brooch with surface decoration (roller printing and or hammering) and a set gem with a single or double pin. The brooch is a three dimensional form and designed by the student.
- Stage Six – Large wire fabricated ring with either a facetted or cabouchon set gem stone and designed by the student.
- Stage Seven – Large silver cabouchon ring or tapered collet and formed ring shank with set gem and designed by the student.
The cost of each Stage is $460 (inclusive of GST).
Silver can be purchased from the studio and the average cost is $15.00 to $20.00 per project.
Classes are run on Saturday morning 9am to 1pm and Wednesday morning 10 am to 1pm and evening 5.30pm to 8.30pm in six week blocks.
