Engineering Your Way Out
Students create necklace or bracelet.
January 24, 25 & 26, 2025
Online via zoom
$425+ sales tax= $459.80
email: alison@antelman.com
tel: 510-704-1905
Registration is Open Now.
Engineering Your Way Out
Develop your ability to solve jewelry fabrication problems and learn solutions to common design and fabrication challenges. Design and create a hinged bracelet or necklace. Students create a “map” of their project, learn to make irregular shaped bezel settings for unusually shaped stones, add hinges and where to place them for irregular shapes and using stainless steel wire, solder sterling terminations to the steel, add a hook clasp and complete your project.
Students are guided through the process along with discussion, case studies, actual examples and solutions shown in a power point presentation. We will explore the interplay of movement and functionality in jewelry and the approach from the wearer’s point of view (ie: does it sit funny on the neck, is it too heavy, does the pendant flop over). The real benefit to this class is learning how to engineer your jewelry projects as you discover solutions to common design and fabrication challenges.
Sample of project in progress
Step-by-step handouts are supplied along with samples. Basic fabrication and soldering required.
Kits are optional and an additional $80 including shipping and will be mailed 2 weeks prior to class (students provide sterling sheet) . Step-by-step handouts are provided. Basic fabrication, including soldering, required.
Register Please contact me with questions: alison@antelman.com
Optional Kit for purchase of $80
Students provide their own sterling sheet, materials list provided.
OPTIONAL: Kit fee, $80
Students supply their own sterling 2 by 6 sheet in 24 gauge
Contents of Kit: KIT Engineering your way out -Online
1. 28g/.30mm fine silver sheet 2 X 6 - Cut bezel to size for larger stones
2. 1.6mm x .010 light wall tubing for hinges- 1 foot (if you are making your own kit order early, Hoover and Strong)
3. 20g/.81mm round wire for hinge- 1 foot
4. 12g/2.54mm round wire for hook clasp- 6”
5. 2.25mm light wall Tubing for terminations- 3” (this tubing fit 2 strands of the stainless cable wire)
6. medium wire solder- 2 feet (additionally, use a foot of brass, copper or stainless tubing as a ‘handle’)
7. 220 grit wet/dry sandpaper
8. Scotch brite for cleaning stainless wire
9. Found sea glass and pottery or irregular shaped stones
10. Stainless Steel cable wire. 1 yard. UNCOATED
304 stainless steel cable, non-coated. 7 x 7 strand core cable size 1/32 inch.
Many students ask where to buy this, the supplies seem to change: Grainger: Stainless steel cable 1/32 of an inch, 304 stainless, 7 by 7 uncoated.
Item # 33RG76 , Mfr. Model # 33RG76 , Catalog Page # 1087 , UNSPSC # 31151705
https://www.grainger.com https://www.grainger.com/product/DAYTON-Cable-33RG76?
Cancellation Policy: Full Refund up to 14 days prior to class start date, transaction fees apply if paid by credit card. No Refunds after that date unless the spot is filled.
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Class fee includes kit. Materials list is supplied. Questions? alison@antelman.com
Alison Antelman
alison@antelman.com
510-704-1905
Registration
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January 24, 25 & 26 2025
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mountain Time
$425 + sales tax is $459.80
Optional Kit Fee: $80
NM requires sales tax on services.
Pay by check or credit card
*please read policy and fees
Kits are optional and an additional $80 including shipping and will be mailed 2 weeks prior to class (students provide sterling sheet). Students are asked to supply minimally, a 2 x 6 sheet of 22 or 24 gauge sterling silver. Materials list is supplied. Please feel free to ask questions. alison@antelman.com
Student Projects
*Cancellation Policy: Full Refund up to 14 days prior to class start date, minus a $20 fee if credit card is used.
No Refunds after that date unless the spot is filled.
You are welcome to pay by check and if you need to cancel, there’s a full refund with 14 days notice. Please alert me that you are registering so I will hold the space for you. If Instructor cancels then a full refund is issued.
NM requires sales tax on services.
Pay by check or credit card
*please read policy and fees