class activities

Week 1 - 9/1/26

Topics

• Attendance 

• Introduce Yourself

  1. Name 

  2. One minute:

     • Why you're taking this class 

     • Show & Tell - bring your favorite piece of jewelry and tell us why!

  3. Instructor Intro

• Course Intro

  1. Syllabus and Group Agreement highlights

  2. Communication preferences and routine expectations

  3. Additional reminders

• Overview of course projects

  1. Self Portrait or Monogram (or your own choice - Talk to me about your design) | Ideas

  2. Cabochon Ring or Pendant | Ideas

• Lecture and Demos

  1. Work-hardening and Annealing

  2. Roller-Printing

  3. Sheet gauge

  4. Using stomp shear

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• Tools Box & Material Kit 

  1. Share Rio Grande's Wholesale Access Code (look for email)

• Project 1 Ideas

Technical Exercise #1: (due at the end of WEEK 1)

• Email a picture of your sawing/piercing sample to instructor after class

Week 2 - 1/27/26

Topics

• Quick review of sawing (additional tips)

• Work-hardening and Annealing

• Metals: Alloys, Gauge (converting gauge to inch and mm) and Hardness.

• Practice sawing, drilling and piercing

• Project 1 Ideas

• Look at Instructor's texture sample and make your own for the technical exercise  

• The library and shape templates