Casting for Replication
Instructor Ben Horton
7 Sessions, Mons, 5:30pm - 9:30pm
Class Dates: 6/1, 6/8, (No Class 6/15), 6/22, 6/29, (No Class 7/6), 7/13, (No Class 7/20/26), 7/27, 8/3
Course Fee: $310.00
Lab Fee: $15.00
Prerequisite: None.
 
This class will teach you how to take advantage of molding and casting to cut down on fabrication time. Instead of making every link of a bracelet by hand, we'll make it once, mold it and then cast the wax versions over and over till we have all the links we want (hopefully enough to make a bracelet). The link you create will have a tube setting as part of it. Nobody should be intimidated by this. The most technical part will be making the tube-setting (which if you don't know is super simple). Once all of the links have been cast and finished, we will join them to make a bracelet, add a simple clasp, and voila! You will have a beautiful bracelet. Students will supply their own metal & stones and I'll provide the mold making supplies. For stones, I'd recommend CZs because they are consistent and cheap but feel free to use something else: just remember, your tubing needs to be half a millimeter wider than the stone (reach out if you have any questions).