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Making Multiples: Blanking Dies & Pattern Development
This course is currently full. Spaces do occasionally open up so if you would like to be put on the wait list please call our office at 781-891-3854 or email [email protected].(Please include your name, phone number, and email address).
Jayne Redman has been exploring form and function with her jewelry for 18 years, developing ways of designing blanking dies and jigs that dramatically speed up the production process. She has also invented unique engineering and assembly processes for forming sheet and wire.
In this workshop, Jayne will share what she has learned about making multiples using blanking dies and designing jigs for findings using Aquaplast, a thermal reactive plastic. Students will be amazed at how quickly they can go from original idea to duplicated shape with tools made in class.
Topics covered include:
- Pattern development for designing in sheet and wire.
- Designing and sawing blanking dies from flat stock tool steel.
- Creating wire hardened specifically for ear wire designs.
- Altering pliers for alternative uses.
- Using thermal reactive plastic to quickly and easily make custom jigs in any shape desired.
Basic metalsmithing skills such as sawing and filing are required.
If you'd like to see more of Jayne's work, please visit her website Jayne Redman Jewelry
Meet the instructor
Nature provides an endless reference for imagination and invention. The linear quality of stems and the fullness of flower buds inspire my jewelry. I enjoy integrating mechanics with design, allowing each piece to function in a visually intriguing way. I work with multiples of the same shape engineering them to fit precisely giving an abstract impression of their botanical origin. Many years of metalsmithing have taught me the power of simplicity. My forms begin as flat metal shapes and arrive as small sculptures. Their complexity is in their conception as curving planes of origami.
Jayne Redman earned her B.F.A. in Jewelry and Silversmithing from Maine College of Art in 1977. She began her jewelry career in the fashion jewelry industry in New York as a design and production assistant. She started her own company, Jayne Redman Jewelry, in 1982. She has exhibited at numerous fine functional art shows and is represented by fine jewelry galleries and craft stores across the country. Her tools for Making Multiples are available on her website, www.jayneredmanjewelry.com. Jayne is a former faculty member of the Maine College of Art Department of Jewelry and Metals. She teaches workshops nationally and at her studio in Falmouth, Maine.
Materials & Tools
There is an estimated materials fee of $165 payable at the class. It includes:
- 18" tool steel sheet. Please note: This tool steel is meant for cutting out 22 ga or thinner metal sheet. If you have special requirements/questions, please contact us.
- Rotational bench pin. (Required for class, but if you can bring your own, please let us know so we do not order one for you. Additional attachments will be available for sale, if desired. Ask us and we'll send you a picture)
- Saw blades
- Magnetic protractor
- Aquaplast pellets and strips of nickel sheet for the jigs
Student Should Bring:
- Drill bits: Suggested #63, or what your saw blade will fit through. There are some available to share in the studio.
- Metal: 22 gauge or thinner - scrap copper and/or brass to test dies. New thin gauge copper will be available at the class for purchase as needed and anything in our scrap bin is free game. If students wish to work in silver, please bring 22 gauge or thinner.
- Paper and drawing materials including heavy file folder type paper
- Coarse file such as a wax file
- your favorite hand tools
Optional: Metalwerx has tools available to use during class, but you may have to share.
- rubber cement
- 5" or 6" saw frame
- files
- A glass bowl or metal pot, metal spoon and knife.
- Rotational Bench pin - Please let us know if you plan to bring your own. It is part of the materials kit if you don't already have one
- We will be using Susan Kingsley's book, Hydraulic Die Forming for Jewelers and Silversmiths, as a reference.