WE’RE GLAD YOU JOINED THE TEAM! Renee Ford | Silky Florentine Hand-Engraved Star Bead Set Moissanite Ring | Monday, February 2, 2026 | 8:00 am until 5:00 pm (one-hour lunch)
$290.00
Learning to hand-engrave doesn’t have to start with complex scrolls and elaborate patterns.
A simple silky finish is just the elegance your work needs to bring it to the next level.
A star bead setting can be a beautiful element that adds glimmer and shine around a simple stone.
In this class you will learn this basic florentine engraving technique and to star bead set a 2mm sparkling faceted moissanite on a 6mm sterling silver flat band.
This is a technique heavy class on the florentine engraving technique and star bead setting.
You will complete a finished ring.
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Description
INSTRUCTOR: Renee Ford
TITLE OF CLASS:Silky Florentine Hand-Engraved Star Bead Set Moissanite Ring
DATE OF CLASS: Monday, February 2, 2026
TIME: 8:00 am until 5:00 pm
LEVEL: Intermediate level: must be comfortable with little smith torch
CLASS FEE: $290
TYPE: Project and Technique
KIT FEE: TWO OPTIONS
$265 INCLUDES
stones, gravers, collets, handle and personal expendables without metal.
$295 INCLUDES
all the above INCLUDING metal
KIT INCLUDES
$265 KIT
Moissanite three precision cut -2mm rds (Bring extra if you want more practice.)
$295 KIT
includes all of the above kit items
and
Silver stock 6x2mm flat, 3” minimum. (Bring extra if you want more practice.)
Tools
liner graver
60º graver
Onglette graver
Quick Change Handle and collets
Beading Tool
Personal Expendables
Blade Butter sample
Sanding Sponge
Blade Butter
RENEE WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING FOR USE IN CLASS
1mm Drill bits to share
Ball Burs to share
Screw mandrels
Cylinder burs to share
Ring sizers
Scribes to share
Fine tip Sharpies
Magic Pliers (forming pliers) to share
Pipe Deburrer to share
Shears
Equipment
Ring Clamps to share (limited number)
Ball Vise and inside ring holder to test out
Inside Ring Stamps for metal fineness
Brass Maker Stamp holder
Ring Bender
Diamond Silicone Wheels for sharpening
Classroom Expendables
Sand paper rolls in 320 & 400 to share
Grey pumice abrasive wheels to share
3M Radial Disc light green Bristle Wheels to share
Setting burs to share
Sanding Discs and mandrel to share-
Rubber inside ring cylinder polishers to share
Torches and soldering stations
Complete soldering stations – table protection, floor protection, torches, fuel, quench bowls
Pickle station – brass brush and copper tongs, baking soda for neutralization, bucket of rinse water, towels for drying project
Patina station – brass brush and copper tongs, baking soda for neutralization, rinse water, towels for drying project
flex shafts
STUDENT SUPPLY LIST
METAL – IF YOU CHOOSE TO BRING YOUR OWN
- Silver stock 6x2mm flat, 3” minimum. (Bring extra if you want more practice.)
Tools & Materials
- Silver solder in Hard
- jewelers saw & lubricant
- 3/0 saw blades
- bench pin with 3-inch C-clamp to secure it to work table
- small anvil or bench block with something to deaden the sound (rubber base for example)
- solderite board to carry your project to-and-from soldering stations
- soldering pick
- jewelry pliers – flat nose, chain nose, round nose, half-round nose
- flush cutter
- metal shears
- favorite files
- Charcoal blocks
- Soldering picks
- Flux
- LONG Toothpicks
Misc
- Battery-operated or rechargeable task light for workbench
- Dust/particulate mask
- Hearing protection
- Eye protection
- Magnification – Optivisor, for instance
OPTIONAL SUPPLY LIST
Non-marking forming mallet
Forming Pliers
Sanding Sticks
Ring mandrel with sizes
Instructor Email Address: renee@reneefordmetals.com
Instructor Website: http://reneefordmetals.com/