This workshop meets Friday and Saturday, August 25 & 26, 2023, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm each day with a lunch break
 
This two-day workshop will guide attendees through how to build advanced settings for firing stones in place in precious metal clay. Attendees will learn how to build settings for round and oval, asscher and radiant, marquee, and pear shaped stones. How to set very small accents stones will also be covered. This class will culminate in students creating a ring using their favorite set stone from the first portion of the workshop. How to securely assemble multiple small components into one ring will be covered, and tricks and tips on building rings will be shared.
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These are the tools participants should bring along:
Soft, small paint brush for applying water and smoothing syringe
Larger brush for dusting
Tuff Cards/small teflon sheets: this process involves joining and drying connections of lots of little pieces that will need to be moved to heat to dry
Clay board/work surface
Extra, old work surface/teflon sheet: to protect the surface you would roll clay on- will be cutting and drilling
Medium sanding stick/nail file
Extra small needle files
Scalpel Tweezers: should be fine tipped, for picking up and setting small stones
Small oval and circle templates with markings for use for guidance in prong positioning
Q-tip or disposable makeup applicator to clean stones with alcohol prior to firing
Clay Pick
Rolling frames
Pencil
Acrylic sheet/snake maker for rolling coils
Dish for water
Sanding pads- from super fine to micro fine
Dust mask
A small candle warmer/ hot plate and a 3 prong extension cord
Mandrel to form ring on, silicon recommended
Optivisor or close up glasses if would be helpful to you for seeing details of small stones
 
Additionally, the following tools will be used (I recognize these are not all typical metal clay tools, and that participants may not already have these on hand. If participants do have any of them to bring along, or if they would like to purchase them anticipating wanting to set more stones using these methods after the class, I recommend them do so. However, I will be bringing a few sets of each to share with students as needed):
A pair of small dividers
Miter Jig
2” steel square
Jewelers saw frame
Size 1 blades
Hand Drill
2mm bur
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A kit fee of $120 will be collected by the instructor during the workshop and will include:
Clay:
EZ.960 clay 25g pack 
EZ.960 Syringe 
 
Stones: (all are fireable up to 1675 degrees)
6mm Round
6x9mm Pear
6x12mm Marquise
8mm Asscher
6x8mm Oval
6x8mm Radiant 
10 2mm round CZ’s
 
This workshop is part of the Metal Clay Artists Symposium and requires the purchase of the General Registration.