Working on a making a one-of-a-kind statement necklace or wanting to add an extra bit of personality to a pre-fabricated chain? Hold it together with a handmade clasp or closure!

This virtual workshop explores some of the many techniques the instructor has discovered using liquid polymer clays. Class will begin with the basics such as mixing colors, using raw versus baked clay, and tools for application, before moving on to exploring some of the super powers of liquid polymer, including techniques for creating backgrounds, using stencils/masks, exploring mark making, and playing with sgraffito.

In this technique based class students will learn all things rivets, from how to use materials such as wire and tubing (to create secure cold connections) to hidden, telescoped, and decorative rivets. Melissa will demonstrate and showcase many pieces that will spark the imagination on how to use rivets in creative ways!

This course will focus on carving wood earrings, which are an excellent small-scale introduction to many carving processes and techniques. After learning the carving process, students will be introduced to wire inlay possibilities as a surface embellishment. Attendees will come away with an understanding of the working properties of wood, the tools needed to manipulate wood on a jewelry scale, and a variety of ways to incorporate it into jewelry work.

Pursue individual projects with questions answered by a professional jeweler. Finish up work hiding in your bench and get advice on new pieces. This class is loaded with great bench tips to guide students through projects with success.

Are you a jewelry lover ready to break into making your own shining jewels? This class will introduce the fundamental metalsmithing skills you need to let your creativity flow! Students will learn to saw and pierce, file, make cold connections such as rivets, basic soldering, and finishing techniques. Basic stone setting will also be introduced. We will focus on making samples as well as finished pieces such as pendants and rings.

In this course, students will elaborate on basic techniques learned in Jewelry 1 and use them as a stepping stone to create more complicated pieces and designs. Topics covered will include intermediate to advanced soldering techniques, piercing and filing skills, creating settings for stones or other objects, fabricating hollow forms and/or boxes, scoring, and of course, finishing. The instructor will also demonstrate tricks and shortcuts she's learned over many years of experience in the field. 

Using hammers, chasing tools, and pitch, learn to create interesting textures, patterns, unusual shapes, and realistic images.

In this virtual workshop, students will explore the ways with which a flat sheet of metal can be transformed into a volumetric object using nothing but a jeweler’s saw and a carefully-designed template. Once formed, these vessels can be enameled using low-tech methods for adhering enamel to vertical surfaces. Strategies for enhancing the finished enameled vessels will also be covered.

This virtual course focuses on important soldering techniques and approaches you may not have known you needed or that may have been missed in previous jewelry courses. Focus will be placed on pick, sweat, and hinge soldering to strengthen your skills and showcase a technical approach that ensures proper solder flow, as well as proper fitting or joining for three dimensional objects.

Eastern repoussé is an easily learnable system of exact how, where, when, with which tool, and how hard to strike your metal to create the designs you want. It empowers you to achieve exquisite detail, unsurpassed depth, and multiple levels of relief. By working on a jewelry scale, you will gain a deep knowledge of the process that can be used on any scale whether wearable, functional, or sculptural. We will also touch on the possibilities of dimensional forms such as rings and bracelets as well as using this process with alternative materials, such as mokume gane and bi-metal.

This workshop combines fine jewelry techniques with found stones to create a unique solitaire-mounted rings using a prong/claw setting. 

So you’ve taken a ton of classes, honed dozens of techniques and skills, and made the samples...now what? In this hour-long creative coaching session, participants will discuss how to tease out their inner creative voice and how to apply that aesthetic to make a piece of jewelry that is distinctly their own with Metalwerx instructor and artist, Paulette Werger. Come talk shop amongst a small group of peers with one of your favorite teachers! 

Learn how to entrap stones and other small objects using fundamental wire wrapping techniques, pliers, and your hand skills in this live virtual course. Students will enhance their understanding of wire and its potential to accentuate jewelry work through layers of cascading texture.

During this one-day course, participants will be turning a found beach treasure into a new and beautiful, wearable piece of jewelry. Students will learn how to cut, drill and carve into their glass or stone, while adding silver accents to make a pendant.

This virtual course is a direct follow-up to Set It & Forget It: Part 1. In this class, students will build off of the knowledge and techniques learned in the first workshop while taking steps forward into more complicated settings. Emphasis will be placed on settings for faceted stones. We will cover tube and prong settings, as well as variations of both of these that add a unique touch to your work. 

In this virtual course students will use forging and chasing techniques to develop complex, sculptural, and functional utensils, while learning how to develop patterns for forging, make their own chisels, and interweave silversmithing and blacksmithing processes.

In this virtual workshop, the instructor will demonstrate how to use epoxy glue in unexpected and transformative ways. Learn to encrust, create color or pattern, and make small castings in epoxy. 

Beginning with a brief look at the material wire, its role in history, how it has been made, and its application as a 3-dimentional line, this virtual workshop will demonstrate lots of techniques as well as highlight working methods based on Slovakian Tinkering.

This hands-on workshop is about manipulating wire and creating textural wire components using both hot and cold twisting techniques.

In this virtual course students will start their journey at the very beginning of the enameling process and will work through several exercise to build a solid foundation for this beloved metalsmithing technique that enhances the beauty a piece of jewelry through color!

This virtual workshop teaches the Hoodoo Hex weave and the related Dragog weave, also known as Japanese Hoodoo, through the construction of a bracelet and a pair of chain earrings in sterling silver.

In this intensive virtual course, Jayne Redman will teach students how to make self-registering one-piece blanking dies, which will allow them to easily cut out precise duplicate shapes from silver, gold, and other non-ferrous sheet metals, affording time to get lost in the design process and experiment with forming and assembling.

In this class, we will be going over how to make a pendant and a ring using the Shapr3D software. If you have never used a CAD program before, Shapr3D is one of the most intuitive programs out there and is a great start to an ease-in into the world or computer aided design!

In this virtual course students will learn how to make a small amount of gold take up a whole lot of space. Techniques covered will include making a gold-sheathed sterling silver band, a gold-rimmed bezel, making bi-metal, and much more!

This virtual course will explain how to use a torch with two gases in many different soldering situations via the stick and pick-up soldering techniques, with a focus on perfecting small to large scale jobs.

In this virtual course, participants will learn how to cast using numerous ancestral casting techniques. Discover practical ways to reproduce pieces using materials such as cuttlefish bones and learn to cast original or one-of-a-kind designs through carving plaster or stone. We will also explore a lost wax casting process that utilizes clay and bees wax materials.