Want to try your hand at hammering out your own metal bowls? This one day workshop will focus on the hammering and forming techniques necessary to create beautiful bowls on a smaller scale! 

Learn the basics of working with silver metal clay while designing and producing a number of personalized silver charms.  Students will also study some simple metalworking techniques to form silver bangle bracelets and securely add their charms so they can wear home a finished "armful" of jewelry!

The art of casting metal has been around for thousands of years, and in that time some clever individual discovered that a cuttlefish's skull creates an excellent texture when molten metal is poured into it. In this one-day workshop, we will explore this ancient casting technique and utilize it to create wearable pieces of jewelry. Jewelry 1 (or equivalent experience) required.

Having great photos or your work is necessary for marketing your business, having a compelling website, applying to shows, grants and more. But every jeweler and metalsmith knows how difficult it is to photograph these tiny, shiny and sometimes sparkly objects well. Come spend a day learning how to photograph your work and edit your images with product photographer Charley Freiberg!

Learn new processes in surface embellishment with powder coat!

When it comes to hammers and stakes, there is only one thing better than owning a set of Fretz tools--learning to make the most of them from the master and maker himself. Metalwerx is pleased to welcome Bill Fretz for a two day workshop on making handwrought pendants using concave and convex forming techniques. Learn this clean and easy way to add peaks and valleys to jewelry and holloware instead of using pitch for chasing & repousse techniques.

Delve into more creative ways to make jewelry and produce one-of-a-kind "stones" to bezel set in unique ways. "Stones" will actually be made by enameling on domed metal surfaces.

Give your gemstones a jewelry home – create in wax to set in metal. In this two-day workshop, you will be guided to complete a set of designs utilizing different wax-forming techniques, primed for stone setting. Creating bezel settings, prong settings and basket settings will all be addressed as well as how to prepare your wax models for metal casting.

This workshop teaches the Hoodoo Hex weave (by Blaise Hartley) and the related Dragog weave, also known as Japanese Hoodoo (by Barb Gujic), through the construction of a Hoodoo Hex bracelet and a pair of Dragog chain earrings in sterling silver.  Each kit will contain enough supplies to make 1 pair of earrings and a bracelet approximately 8” in length.  Students will also receive a color handout documenting each step of the process so that they can recreate these designs at home.  Additional information on widening the Hoodoo Hex weave, connecting the ends of the Hoodoo Hex weave to form ri

Resin Inlay is a great way to add absolutely any color you can think of to your jewelry! This workshop covers the entire process of adding resin to a fabricated design that students create during class.

Celebrate the holidays with a handmade ornament!  Ornaments can make for a perfect gift, honor a loved one, or even commemorate a special occasion.  In collaboration with Halstead and the Metalwerx Ornamental Peace Project, this class will teach students how to design and fabricate an ornament using traditional metalsmithing techniques. Students can expect to come away with a finished handmade ornament, and learn how to saw/ pierce, rivet, texture, and patina metal.

When you think about it, the standard ring is a very simple form: a squat tube or a torus. Typically, we make these rings out of precious materials such as gold, silver, platinum, and so on. But what if you could make them out of other materials such as plastic or even wood? In this one-day workshop, we will bring this exciting prospect to life! Students will utilize a few very simple hand tools to create finished, wearable rings out of what most would consider to be strictly non-jewelry materials.

In this workshop we will make fun earrings using sterling tube bezels and faceted CZs to make sparkly stud and hanging earrings. We will make 3 pairs of earrings, 1 pair of studs, 1 pair of dangling earrings and 1 pair of whatever design you wish to do!   Demonstrations will include how to solder on ear posts, how to make your own ear wires and how to set stones in the tube bezels.   You will go home with 3 pairs of wonderfully sparkly earrings, just in time for the holidays!

Ever struggle with soldering and wish you had a set of troubleshooting tricks to help? Not sure how to set up your own soldering torch and tank? This one day workshop will cover all the soldering basics to advanced, from butt joints to stick soldering, to supporting metal to solder hard to reach solder joints. We will work on soldering and help you gain confidence in your soldering skills.   Great for those who have been taking jewelry classes but want to improve on soldering as well as those who want to understand soldering.

For most metalsmiths the torch is the be-all and end-all in joining metals. However, there are many situations where the application of heat is not appropriate, and many more where the visual stylings of cold connections can create a unique design unmatched by comparatively boring solder seams. In this one-day workshop, students will learn several versatile cold connection techniques: from the three main types of rivets to the mechanical wonder of the tap and die (screws).

This two-day weekend workshop will cover techniques to create textures on metal surface to enhance the appearance of transparent enamels. Whether it is used to increase light reflection or add another layer to your designs, this process offers exciting possibilities to add to the complexity of your enamel pieces. We will cover metal etching, application of roller printed textures and templates and the use of chasing and engraving tools. This is a hands-on workshop where technical demonstrations will alternate with time to practice and apply your new skills.

Make delicate, textured bangle bracelets utilizing not-so-delicate blacksmithing techniques on copper and silver! Students in this two-day workshop will learn how to hammer-draw, planish and shape heavy gauge wire into these wearble forms. 

Students will raise a bowl using hammer and stakes, learning to let the hammer do the work for them.

Keum Boo provides a cost efficient means of introducing high-karat gold to jewelry designs while simultaneously adding texture, pattern, and color. Learn how to create your own foil and employ a variety of embellishment techniques.

Swing the door open to add hinge mechanisms to your work! Catches, latches, and other findings are the focus of this intensive three-day workshop. Special attention will be given to simplifying the fabrication process for assured, secure results.

The ancient technique of granulation is demystified in this workshop. Granulation is the process by which small spheres of gold or silver are fused onto jewelry. Learn to make granules, properly prepare metal, set up a design, fine silver, and clean-up.