Soldering Masterclass

Are you ready to master your soldering?

As a jewellery maker, when you are confident in your soldering skills every thing else is so much easier, and what's more, you can create more intermediate and advanced designs.

So this class was designed as an intensive day to push your soldering skills up a level. Without the pressure of making a finished piece, you can spend the day learning about a variety of different types of soldering, from soldering chain and jumprings, to sweat-soldering and creating 3-dimensional shapes.

This is an improvers level class and all students do need to take the Beginners Silver Jewellery I (or equivalent) before joining.

Get expert help with your soldering including:

• Making multiple joints in the same piece (working with different types of solder when needed)

• Techniques for soldering more challenging and complex joints

• Using the correct equipment and tools for the soldering job

• Heat conduction and tips for your soldering

• Troubleshooting any issues that may arise so you can feel confident correcting mistakes with soldering.

Throughout the day we will start from the basics of soldering and work upwards setting a range of tasks and projects to explore soldering in a new way. As this is a technique focus class you may not making any finished pieces but will have a bunch of soldered items to take away and remind you of the processes used. And next time you make a piece, soldering will be a breeze!

These can then be incorporated into new designs at home if you wish.

What you need to bring to this class:

For this class you don't need to bring anything but yourself as everything is provided.

General Info:

As with all of our classes, all materials are included in the cost of the class as well as plenty of tea, coffee and snacks! The classes are all run by expert tutors with years of professional experience who are friendly, knowledgeable and approachable. The size of the classes is kept small to allow plenty of one-on-one attention and the maximum number of students for this class is 8.

We take an hour break for lunch and there are plenty of local shops to get food from, or you can always bring a packed lunch to eat in the studio. If you have any questions regarding this, or other courses please don't hesitate to get in touch.