This course is for jewelers and engravers who already have basic engraving skills and are comfortable working with tools. Tira will focus on shaping and sharpening the right tools for the job, transferring patterns to your work and executing scroll work onto metal. Learn intertwining elements, principals of basic scroll design and how to cut...
Experience working with modern pneumatic tools and a microscope to shorten your learning curve and improve the quality of your work! Tira will use examples and focus on techniques for engraving steel. Whether you want to engrave knives, firearms, or modern jewelry made of tougher metals, this class will focus on techniques to get you...
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...
Experience working with modern pneumatic tools and a microscope to shorten your learning curve and improve the quality of your work! Tira introduces students to hand engraving with EnSet Hand Engraving, Stone Setting and Finishing tools. Learn to shape and sharpen many gravers including: a 90 degree graver, a 110 degree graver, a flat, a...
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...
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...