Saddle-Set Hinged Earrings with Alex Boyd
Colorado-based jeweler Alex Boyd will teach a three-day class on making a pair of hinged saddle-set earrings.
This class is all about teensy tiny moving parts. They can seem intimidating at first but with a little guidance you’ll be crushing it. And by crushing it I actually mean not crushing it because then they wouldn’t work anymore. I’ll cover building 22k gold bezels for cabochons, making saddle settings for drilled stones, making tiny hinges and riveting them together without freezing the hinge, making a little swivel hook for ear wires so that the earrings don’t go flying off the next time you’re headbanging in the mosh pit, and tons of other little tips and tricks that have applications in all sorts of scenarios.
Dates: October 11 – 13, Friday – Sunday
Hours: 10-5, with one hour lunch break each day
Cost per student: $650 for CMAG members
Studio provides: benches, torches, flex shafts
Materials:
2 matching cabs
2 drilled paddle-shaped stones
Sterling sheet
6 gauge, approximately 2cm x 2cm (large enough to back 2 bezels)
22 gauge, 3.4mm x 4.5cm
22 gauge, 2.3mm x 5cm
22 gauge, 1.6mm x 3cm
Sterling tubing, 1.7mm outer diameter, .9mm inner diameter, 9mm long
Sterling round wire, 20 gauge, 10cm
18k or sterling 20 gauge round wire, 3.5cm
Bezel wire 22k gold or fine silver 24 gauge, tall enough and long enough to set cabs
Hard silver solder
18k yellow hard solder (if using gold)
A full materials list with tools will be emailed to registrants.