Jewelry Events

Tira introduces students to beautiful design elements to compliment jewelry, knives or other hand engraved items. Learn how to lay out and execute border patterns. Understand the design,  construction and engraving of individual flower types and learn how to create floral bouquets. Incorporate banners and learn basic lettering to incorporate into your projects. Experience working...

Experience working with modern pneumatic tools and a microscope to shorten your learning curve and improve the quality of your work! This class will be geared toward jewelers.  While this class will be helpful for anyone wanting to learn to engrave, patterns and projects will favor jewelry examples.  Ultimately, pre-course input with students will determine...

Joel McFadden teaches a combination Bead Setting Class and Fishtail Setting Class to jewelers of all levels On Day 1, Joel will teach how to set a basic single row bead set band using modern tools.  Instruction covers the basics of all Pave work and styles. On Day 2, Joel will build on the bead...

Please visit us at the MJSA Expo 2018 in New York City at the Jacob K Javits Convention Center, River Pavilion We will be at MJSA Expo 2018 in Booth 245.  At the show you will be able to see or try: Leica S9i, S7E and A60F Microscopes; EnSet Engraving Systems; Precision Bench Workbenches; A...

Joel McFadden teaches jewelers how to set Princess Cut stones and other delicate stones without damaging the corners of the stones. He rounds off the course with some of the easiest channel setting techniques you will ever learn.

For jewelers who want to refine high-quality bead setting skills and develop decorative stone setting techniques using modern tools. Students each have their own bench with a microscope and pneumatic engraving tools to dive right into new techniques

Tira teaches students how to shape and sharpen the right tool for the job, transfer patterns to your work, and execute traditional border patterns & scroll design. For jewelers and engravers who already have basic engraving skills.

Using the program Matrix® as an example, Joel McFadden will cover both design and business techniques for incorporating CAD in a modern jeweler’s business. Students will learn to simplify the design process by avoiding Boolean operations, making setting as easy as possible.  Optimize  CAD designs for finishing castings faster. Joel gives tips & tricks for...

For jewelers who want to refine high-quality bead setting skills and develop decorative stone setting techniques using modern tools. Students each have their own bench with a microscope and pneumatic engraving tools to dive right into new techniques