In this hands-on Beginning Bezel Setting (premade bezels) jewelry-making workshop, you’ll learn one of the most elegant and timeless stone-setting techniques — the bezel setting — while building practical soldering and finishing skills you’ll use throughout your jewelry journey. We’ll begin at the bench with a mini torch, learning how to prepare and solder a…

Learn the basics of wax carving for jewelry using simple, beginner-friendly tools. In this introductory workshop, you’ll get hands-on experience cutting and shaping wax to create your own unique pendant design, which will be cast in bronze and mailed to you after the workshop. A few of the techniques you’ll explore include: This workshop focuses on accessible tools…

Get to know the equipment at the Club’s lapidary workshop. Use a trim saw to cut the outline for a cabochon. Shape the stone on the grinding wheels and use the Expando wheels to polish it. Use the arbor with a leather wheel to get a high polish. Go home with a cabochon you can…