This class is all about deep-relief carving using ball burs. I’ll show you how to make a
ring to size then carve out a pattern, first using a steel ball bur, then refining the pattern
with a silicon carbide bur.
 
Once the carving is perfected we’ll frame it between two
skinny rings then apply a bit of texture and patina. Along the way I’ll demonstrate a
bunch of tips and tricks that can be applied in all sorts of situations, not just this project.
 
$40 Kit Fee includes:
Sterling silver strip 5.8mm x 1.4mm x 7 cm
2 xSterling silver strips 2.2mm x 1mm x 8cm
Hard silver solder
 
Tools:
* = tool provided by Alex for students to share
Jeweler’s ruler*
Scribe
Dividers
Jeweler’s saw
2/0 blades
Half round pliers
0 or 2 cut flat file
Flush cutters
Ring mandrel
Non-marring mallet
Bench block
5mm ball bur*
5mm silicon carbide ball bur*
Blue, peach and light green 3m bristlediscs*
Hammer handpiece*
Sanding sticks in 180, 320 and 600 grits*
Sanding rolls in 120 and 600 grits*
Titanium solder clips*
 
 
Alex Boyd is a very serious artist.  If you don’t get it it’s not because there’s nothing to get, it’s because you don’t understand art.  He’s dealing with serious themes that challenge our preconceived notions of subjects and ideas relevant to the most pressing existential conundrums of modern existence and stuff like that.  He’s a true iconoclast.  When he’s not smashing icons or being forcibly ejected from various houses of worship for smashing their icons he’s making art that your two year old couldn’t come close to making so don’t even try that shit.
Alex lives the life of a true bohemian in a neighborhood so hip he won’t say where it is so that the Philistines don’t move in and ruin it with their Starbucks lattes and Arby’s roast beef sandwiches. All he’ll say is that it’s somewhere in Denver.
 
 
8 Contact Hours