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Beginning with the Basics: Stone Setting Techniques
Presented as an introductory-level workshop dedicated to the exploration of stonesetting, this demo and lecture-focused virtual course will cover easy to control, fast, and sure stonesetting methods that still have a professional look, with an elevated aesthetic. Varied approaches to each style of setting will be discussed, as well as how to fashion several hand-made tools for technique specific utility and setters-production tricks for working with efficiency and intent.
This basic setting course will cover — in detail — simple and constructed bezels, tube setting, and discusses basic prong, flush setting, basic single-stone bead and star bead setting, for a robust yet fundamental level of stone setting understanding leaving students ready to design, explore, and implement setting techniques into their personal jewelry products.
Meet the instructor
Charles Lewton-Brain studied and worked in Europe and North America. He lectures and publishes internationally on his research into rapid manipulation of metal and it's surface for artistic and manufacturing purposes. He invented Fold-Forming, an internationally reconized new approach to working sheet metals. Head of the Jewellery/Metals Program at the Alberta College of Art and Design, he writes, exhibits and works in his studio. He is President of the Canadian Crafts Federation. He thinks of himself as an artist who works primarily in the context of body ornament. He is a founding partner in the world's largest free educational web site for jewelers, ganoksin.com and has over 700 pages of his writing there.
Materials & Tools
The instructor has provided a materials list that can be found by clicking HERE. As always, materials for virtual courses with Metalawerx do not need to be purchased if students prefer to wait until after the class to decide what they need based off instructor feedback.
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pen / pencil