Advanced Soldering skills for jewellery

Soldering Masterclass

Master the art of soldering to improve your jewellery techniques. Book Now – Soldering...
experimental stone setting from delft casting, wax forming and claw

Experimental stone setting techniques – Delft, Claw and Wax (A28)

The aim of the course is to create designs that begin with the stone. How best can you show all of its qualities? Once you understand how to create simple, reliable settings using conventional techniques you can adapt these processes to truly honour the spirit of the gemstone.

Vitreous enamelling techniques on copper, steel and silver
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Jewellery Courses 2015-2016

Our expert jewellers at Flux have devised a range of unusual and stimulating jewellery courses and workshops for you to come and develop your skills. Don’t forget to check out our regular 10 week courses that run every term – autumn, spring and summer. Learn all about chain making, find out how to recycle your scrap silver, explore forming techniques, make a ring, set a stone….. we hope we have something for everyone here, and everything for some keen students too!

3 ways to make a silver ring

3 Ways to Make a Silver Ring (G31)

3 Ways to Make a Silver Ring: 10 Week Course (Evening, Wed).

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– On this fantastic introductory course to jewellery making we’ll show you 3 ways to make a silver ring. In the process you will explore how to texture cut, bend, shape, solder and manipulate metal using traditional jewellery tools and techniques.

Wax Techniques For Jewellery Making

Wax Techniques For Jewellery Making (B24)

10 week jewellery course in wax techniques for casting in precious metals. Book now.
Project 1 – Wax carving: design and carve a ring in wax; incorporate a stone setting.
Project 2 – Working with hot wax: make a one-off wax model for lost wax casting

Recycling silver - smelt your scrap, process it into sheet , wire, or cast it into a new piece of jewellery

Recycling Silver (A23)

Recycling silver: 10 week jewellery making course, How to identify precious metals, how to prepare, Melt and cast scrap into ingots or bars; how to process into sheet and wire. Book now.

Design and Make a Silver ring

Design and Make a Silver Ring (G18)

Book now. By the end of this course you will know how to cut, file and polish metals like copper and silver, texture metal using pressing and punching techniques, hammer and punch sheet into 3d form, permanently join 2 or more elements together using traditional silver soldering techniques, forge wires into unusual and unique forms. You can make your experiments into bangles, earrings and pendants – and you will have designed and made a uniquely you ring in silver.

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Creative Chain Making (C22)

Intermediate Jewellery Making – Creative chain making and other connections. 10 Week course (Evenings, Thu). Book...
Advanced Soldering skills for jewellery

Improve Soldering Skills (A22)

Jewellery class – Focus on improving your soldering skills, while developing your own jewellery project(s). Book now.
Soldering Skills – Weekly group tutorials and demonstrations examining the nitty gritty of soldering, from basic to complex procedures over 10 weeks. Personal Project – continue to develop your own jewellery projects with as much assistance as you need from your tutor.