Description

Title of class: Under Pressure: Bracelets & Rings 

 Instructor: Chapin Dimond

Date of Class: Tuesday, February 2, 2027

Time: 8:00 am until 5:00 pm

Level: advanced beginner minimum – helpful if comfortable with using a torch, saw, files, hammers, and flex shaft

Type: None (ability to use a jewelers saw and a torch to anneal is helpful) 

Maximum number of Students: 12

Class Fee: $290

Kit Fee: $85 (cash, check, Zelle)

*price subject to change due to metal price fluctuations

KIT INCLUDES

Use of tools/equipment and materials/consumables instructor will supply

● Flexshaft tools ○ Sanding drum 

○ Eve wheels with mandral 

● Double sided tape 

● Cleaning supplies 

● Patina 

● Handouts 

● Other needed supplies, consumables and tools/equipment for use 

● Torches – Ac/Atmosphere – annealing 

● Pickle pot for cuffs – pickle 

● Floor fire blanket for soldering/annealing area 

● Lighter/striker 

● Soldering bricks 

● Cookie sheets for solder bricks 

● Lazy susan with pumice 

● Bonny Doon Hydraulic presses 

● Bracelet formers for hydraulic press 

● Ring formers for hydraulic press 

● 95D 3x2x1 blocks urethane 

● Aluminum spacers 

● Pancake dies/ Blanking dies -ring, bracelet/cuff 

● Hot plate and pot – patina 

● Water tube for washing, quenching, patina 

● Flexshaft – (class set) 

○ Scotch brit wheel 

○ Polishing wheels 

○ 3m blue wheel 

○ Eve wheel deburring 

● white board 

● hammer for texture 

● steel block 

● Rawhide mallet or dead blow plastic hammer 

STUDENT SUPPLY LIST

Materials 

● Bring copper or brass or sterling silver sheets. (at the minimum 1 sheet of 18ga (6”x12”)) Some sheet of each gauge 16-20 is good. Recommend some to be pre cut to 6″ x 2”. Pre-textured metal is great, we will be texturing in class as well. 

Tools

● Bench pin 

● C-clap for bench pin 

● Bench light 

● files large (I like #2 cut) 

● sharpie 

● Safety glasses 

● Caliper- metal 

● Sharpie marker 

● sanding sticks 320, 400 grit 

● saw blades (I like 2/0) 

● saw frame 

● Dill bits (I like 1mm) 

● Optional 

● Hand shears (optional) 

● Large Soldering brick/pad (rio 502090) [optional- great for annealing] 

● Other tools for cleaning jewelry you normally like to use that you already have in your tool box – separating discs, sanding discs, 3m wheels(optional) 

Battery-operated or rechargeable work light

Noise protection (sometimes it gets loud in class!)

Optivisor or other magnification

Clothing requirements: closed toed shoes and avoid wearing polyester, it can be flammable.

 Tools and supplies for class can be found at Rio Grande (#’s provided) or any other jewelry supply company

Discount instructor codes:

RioGrande: RFSCDIMO

pepetools.com/cdimond gets 10% off

OPTIONAL

Sterling silver solder – hard, medium, easy [paste solder in kit]

Round faceted stone 3mm

Ball burs if you have any

Miter-cutting vise and jig

Other tools for cleaning jewelry you normally like to use that you already have in your toolbox

 Instructor Instagram: @cdimonddesigns

Instructor Website: www.cdimond.com

PTCLASS DESCRIPTION

 

 The hydraulic press is one of the most versatile and powerful tools in the studio.

Bonny Doon is providing presses and all the tools and attachments to make the hydraulic press do the heavy lifting (or should we say heavy pressing).

There are lots of different techniques and ways to form metal – let’s play with the hydraulic press to learn the basics and some new techniques. 

In this class students will learn how to safely use the press for bracelet forming, and ring forming, with forming dies and their variations, how to bend heavy stock, and use blanking dies to cut out blanks.

We’ll also use hammers to add textures to our metal as well. 

Copper will be used to practice forming.

Students can choose to work with copper, nickel, brass or sterling silver. (Students will bring all their own metal). We will use pancake dies (sometimes called blanking dies) to make cuff and ring blanks. 

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Chapin Dimond is a full-time professional metalsmith and

jeweler.

In 2003 he discovered the magic of metalsmithing. From Metropolitan State

College of Denver, he earned a BFA in Art: Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing.

Chapin is a Colorado native inspired by nature and the magic of metals.

Metalsmithing is the process of telling stories through metal, releasing the inner “feeling” of what metal wants to be.

“Swing that hammer, light that torch, and see that magic happen.”