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Intro To Soldering will take a student from having no knowledge about soldering or even how to light a torch to learning multiple torch soldering techniques and creating a layered metal pendant, hollow-formed earrings, and a copper bead. Students will learn about basic torch types, setting up a soldering space, torch flame types and uses, and torch safety including lighting and extinguishing and the use of the shop metal working area. Students will learn how to anneal metal, how to pattern metal with a rolling mill, soldering techniques (sweat soldering, butt joints, post on sheet and jump rings) and the use of chip, wire, and paste solder. No experience necessary.
Intro To Soldering will take a student from having no knowledge about soldering or even how to light a torch to learning multiple torch soldering techniques and creating a layered metal pendant, hollow-formed earrings, and a copper bead. Students will learn about basic torch types, setting up a soldering space, torch flame types and uses, and torch safety including lighting and extinguishing and the use of the shop metal working area. Students will learn how to anneal metal, how to pattern metal with a rolling mill, soldering techniques (sweat soldering, butt joints, post on sheet and jump rings) and the use of chip, wire, and paste solder. No experience necessary.
This class is an introduction to the basics of cutting and polishing gemstone cabochons
This class is an introduction to the basics of cutting and polishing gemstone cabochons
We can use light transmitted through a mineral to better identify, orient, and understand minerals. One of the tools useful in investigating how light interacts with a mineral is the polariscope. In this course we‘ll build a simple polariscope to help in understanding how a polariscope works, and then use the polariscope to investigate the optical properties of mineral specimens. In addition to the provided mineral specimens for exploration, bring your own transparent minerals or gems to investigate as well. You‘ll leave the course with a simple polariscope and a better understanding of minerals!
No experience needed, but a previous gem ID course is certainly useful.
Gem Cutters Workshop
Meadow Mill at Woodberry
PREREQUISITE: Beginning Cabochon/Intro to Lapidary Cutting Class completed. No exceptions. Please do not register if you have not taken the Guild’s Intro to Lapidary course. Please contact classes@gemcuttersguild.com if you have any questions.
Learn how to do basic intarsia. Intarsia is the art of cutting stones and gluing them together to create new designs. It is a way of taking some simple stones and creating a dramatic one of a kind piece. You will design your own square or rectangular piece and one triangular piece. You will create, glue and grind and polish two pieces ready to mount or display.
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