In this tricks and tips lecture, students will learn to speed up their production and understanding of goldsmithing from a master in the field, Charles Lewton-Brain. This 4-hour demo-oriented course is an information-packed compilation of goldsmith's tricks, shortcuts, tool hacks and alternative equipment options. This lecture is for anyone who works in metal—not just gold.
 
Learn to free your thinking and find solutions to whatever technical problems that might arise!  
 
If you are interested in homemade tools and bench tricks to speed your production or understanding of goldsmithing this workshop is for you. A loose, eclectic collection of invention principles, shortcuts, bench tricks, stonesetting tips, polishing hints and alternative equipment options for the metalsmith representing decades of goldsmithing tricks are gathered together.
 
Cheap tool making, jewellers' secrets and unexpected sources for tools will be discussed. Subject areas covered include the Jewelers Bench, Home studio set-up, Racks and holding things, Useful tools and Modifications, Polishing/finishing, Punches and chasing, Gemsetting tools, Wax working, Soldering Tips and Stakes, hammers and forming.
 
Charles Lewton-Brain learned and worked in Germany, Canada and the United States.  His work is concerned with nature and structure. His jewelry and research into compositional systems for metal working has been published internationally. He invented and disseminated foldforming, a system of working sheet metal new to the field. Charles received Canada’s highest honor for Craft, The Saidye Bronfman Governor Generals Award. He co-founded the Ganoksin.com Project with Dr. Hanuman Aspler in 1996, now the worlds largest educational website for jewelers. He has over 1000 pages of his writing there. 
 
MATERIALS & TOOLS
Note-taking materials
 
 
8 Contact hours