Description
Instructor: Rosy Revolver aka Jessica Cote
Title of Class: Flower Bomb
Click on this link for a short video!
Date of Class: November 10 – November 13, 2023 (four days)
Time: 9:00 am until 5:00 pm daily (28-hours)
Location: we’ve contracted with this fabulous professional jewelry studio – Urban Metal Studio, Mesa, AZ
Level: For the intermediate metalsmith. Prior experience with a torch is highly, highly recommended.
Type: Combination of both project and technique
Class Fee: $1295
Kit Fee: $75 (payable to Jessica on first morning of class)
*Kit fee may vary a bit due to fluctuating prices of precious metals.
Kit includes the following
- Heavy weight paper for prototyping and model making
- Base metal (brass) for prototyping and model making
- Graph paper
- Sterling silver sheet in various gauges from 18g to 24g
- Hard silver solder
- Medium silver solder
- Flux
- Pickle
- Emery cloth
- Cotton thread & needle
- Half-drilled pearl or gemstone
- Iron binding wire
Students will be provided the following in class
We will be meeting in a beautiful professional working studio, complete with all the large equipment necessary to complete the projects in this retreat. Students will be asked to bring a variety of hand tools for their personal use.
Student Supply List
- Saw with 3/0 and 2/0 blades and benchpin
- Flat hand file #2 cut
- Half round hand file #2 cut
- Set of needle files #2 cut
- Liner stamps- a variety of sizes is nice
- A set of pliers: half-round/flat, chain nose, flat nose, round nose
- Flush cutters
- Miter jig
- Digital caliper or ruler
- Sketchbook
- Super glue GEL
- Double sided tape
- Scissors
- Ring mandrel
- Mechanical pencil
Optional Supply List
If you’d like, you may choose to bring:
extra metal
extra wire
Texturing hammers
Rolling mill textures or plates
Safety glasses/Magnifiers/Optivisor
Wouldn’t it be fun if we all stayed at the same hotel?
<<Here’s where Jess, Barb and Erin are staying!>>
Instructor’s email: rozaphine@gmail.com
Instructor’s website: rosyrevolver.com
DO YOU NEED ANY SUPPLIES OR TOOLS FOR CLASS?
PRE-ORDER THEM TODAY!
Many of our students have asked us to help streamline the process of gathering their supplies and tools for classes, and we have come up with a way we think will work for you.
SJ Jewelry Supply in Phoenix is owned and operated by a wonderful family, headed by Mario Morales. His wife, Erika, and son, Steven, round out the staff, and they are excited to help make gathering your supplies easy and stress free. We guarantee they will make life easier for you! No kidding!
Here’s how it will work….
- Once you have determined what you will need for class, send an email with your request for products and/or tools to SJ Jewelry Supply
- Go to our website, open the class description for the class, scroll down to the section “Student Supplies,” cut and paste the items you want to purchase into an email to Mario.
- Here’s their email address mailto:info@sjjewelrysupply.com
- When they receive your email, they will send you a return email acknowledging receipt of your request
- In this email, they will instruct you about payment methods
- Once your order is filled, they will send you a second email with confirmation stating your order is complete
- Included in this email, they will give you instructions on how to pick up your orders upon arrival in September!
Sound easy? We think it’s going to help take the stress out of preparing for classes!
