classes at SilverWorks

 
 

Setting Up Your Silversmithing Studio $95

Stuffed full of all the inside information that you have been dying to know from decades of collected experience, Blair will share basic conventional knowledge as well as discovered short cuts and personal tips to help streamline your home studio.

All the “scary” things that hold you back from equipping your home silversmithing studio are addressed: torches and other tools; soldering surfaces compared; how to handle Pickle. Safety concerns and flexi-shaft accessories will be explained. Daunting and confusing industry terms made simple. Demo, group discussion, and Q&A.

A few things we will cover...

studio set up

  1. Bullet When to change pickle

  2. Bullet How to neutralize it

  3. Bullet Different solders and their uses

  4. Bullet Soldering surfaces

  5. Bullet Staging assistants

  6. Bullet Different torches

  7. Bullet How to assemble a torch

  8. Bullet Tool identification

  9. Bullet Tool maintenance

  10. Bullet Safety

  11. Bullet Defining the differences between Sterling, Fine, Dead-Soft, Half-hard, etc.

  12. Bullet and more...