Metal Forming | Jewelry Focus

Class Description

Taught by Erin S. Daily

8 week course (meets once a week for 3 hours)

Create lightweight volumes using sheet metal forming techniques for jewelry. Through bending, hammering, dapping, and rolling, you will stretch and form metal and discover how it behaves. Scoring and bending using a separating disc can give your forms a crisp structure that is quick to execute. Strategic fold forming approaches can yield elegant shapes with minimal hammerwork. Create hollow rings without excessive soldering. Explore how small variations in patterning can affect the resulting hollow forms. All of these techniques can be used for hard crisp angles or soft flowing surfaces.

Three projects will be introduced - a pair of earrings using scoring and bending techniques, a bracelet using precise fold forming techniques, and a hollow ring using forming and dapping techniques.

Students must be comfortable with basic jewelry fabrication skills, including soldering and torch work. Our Welcome to Jewelry Class and Jewelry 2 (or a comparable class) are recommended .

Class size 4-12 students.

There is a supply kit available for purchase through our Tool Shop. Materials will be available for pick up during your first class.

Early Bird pricing discount will be in affect until October 11th, when the course will rise to $580. All students receive a 50% discount on hourly bench rentals throughout the duration of their course.

Refunds & Credit

Please email us at info@bkmetalworks.com to withdraw from class. Withdrawals from class more than 7 days prior to the start of the class will receive a full refund for the class minus a 10% processing fee. If cancellation occurs 3-6 days prior to the class, we will provide a 50% refund. Cancellations 48 hours or less receive a 25% refund. Refunds will not be provided for no-shows or same-day cancellations.

We do not refund tuition for classes that students miss due to their own circumstances. There will be no refunds once the class begins in any circumstance, nor can we transfer you to a later semester. Students enrolled in multi-session studio courses (excluding workshops and intensives) may make-up missed class sessions during open studio hours for up to two weeks after the last class meeting.

We reserve the right to cancel or discontinue any class, in which case you may choose to receive a refund, apply the class credit towards a different course, or receive a tuition credit for future use. Tuition credits are valid for up to one year. Refunds will be issued within 30 days.