One Day Workshop

Saturday, August 24th 10:00 - 4:00PM

Material Fees: $25-75

Experience Level - Must have basic jewelry making experience.

Ever want to try your hand at working with gold? Add gold to your silver jewelry? Afraid of getting started? This workshop is ideal for anyone who wants to step up their bench working skills and expand their metal palette to conquer the fear of gold. An overview of the different karats of each alloy - 10kt, 14kt, 18kt, 22kt, 24kt. We will work mostly in 14kt yellow gold which is standard in the US. Joy will demonstrate soldering gold to silver, how gold solders behave in comparison to silver solder, how to solder gold bezels and set stones in gold. We will make gold bezels, and learn to add gold settings to jewelry. We can recycle old gold jewelry (such as broken gold chains, old gold jewelry or scraps) by melting items down to make gold ingots that can be used to produce gold wire, gold bezel, gold beads for accenting silver, etc. Surface emblement such as keumboo will be covered as well.