Old to New: Reusing & Recycling Metals for Jewelry-Making

Have you been holding onto your grandmother’s silver spoon or jewelry? Or have clean scrap sterling silver? Learn to recycle precious metals and add environmentally-friendly techniques to your jewelry-making! This class covers the fundamentals of hallmarking to identify sterling from plated base metals, plus highlights various karat golds. Explore melting metal and pouring it into ingots that can be rolled or milled to make useful material like wire and sheet. Once that step is complete you'll work at the jeweler's bench using a variety of hand tools to texture and shape metal, and a torch to solder to make a band ring. Basic jewelry finishing will also be covered.

All skill levels are welcome! You'll need to supply or source your own sterling silver scrap or objects to melt for this class.

$200 ($180 tuition + $20 materials)  |  4 weeks
Open to ages 18 and up.

Instructor: Linda Seebauer Hansen