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• Intro to Jewelry Making & Tool Training

  • When
    08/19/2024
  •  
    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    The MINT, 112 Quality Lane, Rutland, VT
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  This class provides the fundamental skills and materials knowledge you'll need for future projects in jewelry and metalsmithing. Students will receive:

  • An introduction to basic metals (copper, brass, nickel, silver, gold) and their characteristics
  • Up-close demonstrations of basic techniques: sawing, filing, sanding, texturing, stamping and polishing
  •  An overview of our metalsmithing equipment:  bench pin, jeweler's saws and files, disccutter, acetylene torch, propane and oxygen torch (with flux coating and pickle bath), flexshaft and attachments, rolling mill, ring bender, dapping blocks (dome and u-channel), steel block, punches, stamping tools, ring stretcher, a variety of hammers, and the buffers and polishes
  • Lots of hands-on practice and time for Q & A
  • In addition, each student will make and take home a small, personalized charm or ring designed in their choice of metal and pattern.

  This beginner's class is for anyone interested in the art of metal smithing to use in jewelry making or in any fine metalworking project or application. This tool training is required before members can use the Jewelry Studio (all equipment including hand tools).

  POLICIES

  This class is intended to provide basic training on, and independent access to, a specific set of tools at The MINT.  

  Non-Members may take this or any other class at The MINT.  Become a Member to gain independent access to our shops outside of class time.

  Instructor: Tim Schneller of Timco Jewelers, downtown Rutland

  Limit: 4

  Teens and adults welcome!

  $50 for members, $85 for non-members, plus $10 material fee payable to instructor at class. 

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• MINTacular!

  • When
    10/12/2024
  •  
    11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    112 Quality Lane

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  MINTacular is back!!

  Come and join us for a MINTacular festival on October 12th, 2024!

  Activities kick off at 11AM. We will have a pumpkin carving station, corn hole tournaments, food trucks and cake!

  There will also be guided tours, and demonstrations in the form of ongoing classes...sign up now!

  We will conclude the celebration with an *official* mural unveiling.

  Join us for an hour, or the whole day! Bring a friend! Celebrate the MINT and the wonderful creative energy that exists here all year long. 

  
  

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• Intro to Jewelry Making & Tool Training

  • When
    10/12/2024
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    The MINT, 112 Quality Lane, Rutland, VT
  • Spaces left
    4

  Register

  
  

  This class provides the fundamental skills and materials knowledge you'll need for future projects in jewelry and metalsmithing. Students will receive:

  • An introduction to basic metals (copper, brass, nickel, silver, gold) and their characteristics
  • Up-close demonstrations of basic techniques: sawing, filing, sanding, texturing, stamping and polishing
  •  An overview of our metalsmithing equipment:  bench pin, jeweler's saws and files, disccutter, acetylene torch, propane and oxygen torch (with flux coating and pickle bath), flexshaft and attachments, rolling mill, ring bender, dapping blocks (dome and u-channel), steel block, punches, stamping tools, ring stretcher, a variety of hammers, and the buffers and polishes
  • Lots of hands-on practice and time for Q & A
  • In addition, each student will make and take home a small, personalized charm or ring designed in their choice of metal and pattern.

  This beginner's class is for anyone interested in the art of metal smithing to use in jewelry making or in any fine metalworking project or application. This tool training is required before members can use the Jewelry Studio (all equipment including hand tools).

  POLICIES

  This class is intended to provide basic training on, and independent access to, a specific set of tools at The MINT.  

  Non-Members may take this or any other class at The MINT.  Become a Member to gain independent access to our shops outside of class time.

  Instructor: Tim Schneller of Timco Jewelers, downtown Rutland

  Limit: 4

  Teens and adults welcome!

  $50 for members, $85 for non-members, plus $10 material fee payable to instructor at class. 

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