(Fall19) Workshop-Jewelry: Soldering 101

Workshop: Soldering 101 with Cecilia Minnehan
Dates: Saturday, November 9th - Monday, November 11th
Times: 10:00AM-3:30PM each day (includes 30 minute lunch break each day)
Location: Jewelry Studio
Fee: $350 for 3 day workshop (15 hours), includes all materials.
No previous experience required. Min age 14. *Please see dress code below.

This is an accelerated 3 day workshop over Veteran’s Weekend, bring your bagged lunch! 
In this 3 day workshop with Cecilia Minnehan, from Cecilia Designs, you will learn everything you wanted to know about hard soldering.

• How to set up your own soldering station. You will be provided with a jewelry tool catalog and we will review all the absolute minimum tools needed to begin soldering in your own shop.
• How to manipulate metal: bending, folding, twisting, hammering, piercing sanding filling & how all those pieces will solder together.
• How to prepare your metals for soldering & how to solder different thicknesses to each other.

There will be a final project you can make specializing in what interests you the most.

Metalsmithing skills covered in this class:

• Torch set-up
• Types of solder and their purpose
• Soldering wires, jump rings, earring posts, bezel wire
• Annealing
• Piercing / sanding / finishing / polishing options

We will work with copper, and sterling.
Please bring reading glasses if you use them! Open to students of any level, Beginners welcome! No previous experience required.

*DRESS CODE*
For safety reasons we ask everyone to comply with the dress code policy in the Metals Department: Closed-toe footwear (no sandals), pants/shorts must go below the knee, long hair must be pulled back from the face and secured. Wear a headband or a hat without a visor if your hair can’t be tied back.