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Kinetic Floral Pendants - Virtual Workshop
Jewelry that moves is fun, engaging, and always eye catching. In this live, virtual workshop, students will look at a mechanism for creating a spinning flower as they work with both sheet and wire to create a 3-dimensional kinetic piece of jewelry. Participants will learn to control their torch during delicate soldering operations and how to plan ahead for tricky connections. Students will also play with various textures and make simple tools for adding more depth to the piece.
This course will consist of two sessions. There will be a no-class day between each session.
There will be an Open Studio Hour at 2:00PM Eastern Time on the no-class day.
Class will be held live via Zoom during the designated time frame. A link to the Zoom room will be sent via email.
Each session will be recorded and you will receive a password protected link to the recordings that expire after 30 days.
Please read the Materials & Tools tab!
Meet the instructor
Melissa Muir is a designer, metalsmith and educator. She is known for being the Queen of Tools. Her YouTube channel features Tool Time Tuesday and Weekend Jewelry school where she gives tool reviews, tutorials, comparisons and much more to help both the beginner and advancing jeweler. She has worked closely with some of the top educators in the industry including Alan Revere where she has produced videos for his book "Professional Jewelry Making" and Facebook group "Let's Make Professional Jewelry." She has worked to educate jewelers by partnering with companies such as Foredom, Durston, Micro-Tools, Gesswein, Potter USA, Otto Frei, Halstead Bead, Pepetools, Sunstone Engineering and many more. She has written how-to articles for Art Jewelry Magazine and Admins several popular Facebook jewelry groups. Melissa currently lives in Utah with her husband and three daughters.
Visit Melissa's website or Instagram page to see some of her work.
Materials & Tools
To lower expenses for students, the following $60 kit will be sent to the shipping address you have listed on your Metalwerx account. Kits will be mailed out by November 9th. If you register after the 8th of November, you will need to pay for expedited shipping or order the following supplies yourself. Please inform us if you reside outside of the United States, as your shipping cost may differ from the standard shipping included in the materials kit fee and may also need to be expedited. All items listed below will be included in your kit. Kit includes enough materials for two pendants.
- 19mm copper discs
- 22mm copper discs
- 13mm copper discs
- 18g copper wire spool
- 5mm sterling silver tubing
- 5mm CZ
- 5/32" copper tubing
- 3/32" copper tubing
- 1/8" copper tubing
- jump rings
- shipping cost
Students will be responsible for providing the following common studio items. Vendor links (red text) have been put next to some suggested items:
- torch - any will work (instructor will be using butane)
- fireproof soldering area - steel baking sheet will work (Amazon)
- Solderite™ pad or fire brick (Rio Grande)
- insulated cross locking tweezers
- soldering pick
- fine tip tweezers
- pliers - flat, round, chain nose
- wire cutters (aka snips)
- flux
- crock pot with pickle
- hard silver solder
- rotary hand piece/drill press or hand drill
- disc cutter or sawframe/sawblades (optional)
- needle files
- textureing hammer
- plastic or rawhide mallet
- riveting hammer or cross pein hammer
- center punch
- scribe
- pusher and burnisher - for setting 5mm stone
- steel block
- vise
- patination compounds (optional)
- small piece of 2x4 - wooden hammering surface