3-Day Silversmithing for Teenagers

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3-Day Silversmithing for Teenagers

£310.00

Monday 11th - Wednesday 13th August 2025
10am-4pm each day

Tea and coffee are provided, bring your own packed lunch.

Suitable for beginners aged 12-17

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Jewellery Summer School for Teenagers - 3 Day Course

An exciting 3-day course, introducing key jewellery and silversmithing techniques to your crafty teenagers! Each of the three days will focus on a different project, covering techniques such as soldering, forming, saw piercing, bending and finishing. Students will make a set of stacking rings, a pierced & textured pendant and linear shaped earrings. See below for the full course outline for each day.

As well as being a jewellery & silversmithing tutor for us at Meon Valley Studio, Gwen is an experienced art teacher, teaching secondary level children.

Tutor: Gwen Roff
Monday 11th - Wednesday 13th August 2025
10am-4pm each day
£310 per person
Materials additional

Tea and coffee provided each day, you will need to bring a packed lunch.
Materials are additional and can be purchased during the course.

Suitable for beginners aged between 12 and 17.

Projects and techniques covered on this course:

Day 1 - Set of silver stacking rings
- Discuss wire shapes
- Measuring metal length
- Using a piercing saw
- Bending & shaping
- Pallion soldering
- Filing, papering & polishing
- Texturing using hammers

Day 2 - Sheet silver pendant
- Piercing (sawing) sheet
- Texturing using hammers
- Filing & papering edges
- Drilling
- Surface finishes
- Forming

Day 3 - Chain drop earrings
- Forming & bending with pliers
- Soldering using the solder probe
- Making ear hook wires
- Time to finish off the week’s projects


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