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This class has been converted to an online class. Please see new listing. Registrants have been notified and am awaiting responses for whether they want to convert to the new class.~tt

New listing: 
https://bainbridgebarn.wildapricot.org/event-3841477

In this 2-day workshop you will experience a collection of short cuts, bench tricks, stone-setting and polishing hints. If you are interested in homemade tools and bench tricks to speed your production or increase your understanding of goldsmithing this workshop is for you.

It is about seeing tools in new ways, solving problems and creating new solutions to tool use, processes, and technical procedures in jewelry making. Alternative equipment options and jeweler’s secrets have been gathered together representing decades of goldsmithing tricks. Cheap tool making, and unexpected sources for tools are described. With this workshop Prof. Lewton-Brain illustrates the highlights from both his book Cheap Thrills in the Toolshop and his Bench Tricks CD/DVD. 

Details:

• This is an intermediate level class.  
• $35 materials fee is included in the tuition price when you register. 

Instructor: Charles Lewton-Brain has studied and worked as a goldsmith and artist in Europe and North America for over 40 years. He has lectured and published internationally on his research into manipulating metal and art of jewelry. He has been honored with Canada’s highest award in Craft and retired as Prof. Emeritus from the Alberta College of Art, in Calgary. 

These workshops are the result of his lifelong research into technical and compositional systems in metals, as well as his art practice, conceptual research, and design skills. “My workshops are about thinking, using metalworking as compositional systems and providing deeper insights to students and professionals.” -CLB

Contact: Jewelry.Lead@BainbridgeBARN.org