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Tool Time with Tim: How to Make and Use Chasing Tools
This master workshop is designed to give students an in-depth basic knowledge of how to make chasing & repoussé tools, in addition to how to use them properly. Spend a week with Tim Lazure creating your very own set of chasing tools, including liners, embossers, matting tools, planishers, stippling tools, and raised beading tools. You will learn about these common tool profiles (their shape and purpose) and how to harden and temper tool steel properly. Tim will make the learning process easy utilizing close-up video live feed, oversized step by step samples, and hands-on assistance.
As the class progresses, students will learn to use these tools to work on an intricate chasing and repoussé sample piece. This project is designed to walk you through how each tool can be used in a primarily European style chasing and repoussé approach.
This class is included in the Metalwerx Course Scholarship Program. Scholarship applications for this class are now closed.
Meet the instructor
Timothy Lazure is a Professor in the Metals Design program at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. He received his BFA at Rochester Institute of Technology and his MFA at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. His body of work is diverse in scope - including jewelry, flatware and hollowware, furniture, and sculptural pieces.
Tim exhibits his jewelry, silversmithing and furniture in national and international exhibitions. Throughout the years, Tim has taught workshops across the country from Florida to Alaska. He has pieces in the permanent collections of the Mint Museum of Craft and Design in Charlotte, NC, the Gallery of Art and Design in Raleigh, NC, the Enamel Arts Foundation in Los Angeles, CA, and the Racine Art Museum in Racine, WI.
View Tim's work at www.timlazure.com.
Materials & Tools
There is a $17 materials kit fee for this course, which is payable upon registration. The kit will be comprised of an 8" mill bastard file for filing steel, sanding sticks, sandpaper (320, 400, 600 grit), and 20g copper sheet metal.
There is an additional materials kit fee payable directly to Tim Lazure in class, which is estimated to be $30-$40, depending on how many chasing tools you are able to make.
Pitch in a chasing bowl will be needed for the second part of this workshop. Metalwerx has a limited number of studio pitch bowls with red pitch available for use. Please call us at 781-891-3854 to reserve a pitch bowl to use during the workshop. If you have a pitch bowl filled with pitch, we ask you bring it with you to class, if possible! Black / tar pitch is not allowed in the Metalwerx studio, due to its toxicity!
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any of their own metal that they may wish to use in addition to what they get in their kit
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closed toed shoes - required in the Metalwerx studio
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any of their own favorite tools - Metalwerx is equipped with communal studio tools
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pen/pencil and notepad for notes and sketching
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lunch