About this Class

Now you can solder, let's get to stone setting. A simple pendant will be created using bezel strip, sheet and a bail (the thing that holds the pendant to chain). This class requires students to have taken Intermediate Soldering/ Jewelry Fabrication Class or have the equivalent experience.

Students will be making a bezeled pendant in this hands-on workshop. You will learn to create a bezel cup, how to bail and set a stone, and how to use Foredom for stone setting and polishing. There is a $23 material fee included in the class fee.

About the Instructor

From Susan Sipes-Rabinowitz: My bench jeweler journey involves the time-honored goldsmith tradition of sharing knowledge. Many of my students have become successful jewelry makers and creating small businesses, and others have decided at retirement from the state to start a cottage industry of jewelry making while traveling the States. Another success story is that one of my apprentices successfully made the transition to entrepreneur and created a nice on-line business. And lastly, one of my students, who was extremely afraid of fire and the torch, went on to become a jewelry arts student-assistant at ARC. She credits my instruction and patience to quenching her fire fear and going for it. As a side note, when approaching a class or workgroup, I like to have a short, casual discussion of level of expertise and expectations. This allows me to address each instructional step starting with the least experienced step / review and then addressing the next levels. I have found working addressing the novice and then the next levels, helps with review as well as eliminates overwhelming the novice. In addition, to bringing finished samples of the class projects, I like to bring my epic fails to show after exercise has begun. Therefore, those that think they are failing may actually see they are not…and those that have happy accidents…we all have to start somewhere. Also, I like to give visual, verbal. as well as written step by step instruction. Due to my corporate experience as a systems trainer, I gleaned that people learn with four stimulated ways and or a combination of the four, audio, visual, reading, doing / manipulation. In addition, I am great at social media and already have 10 people that are willing to join Hacker Lab to enroll in the Jewelry Program. My shop is great “window’ for people to see and then get information to start working their jewelry passion and advocating the Hacker Lab.

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SAC-302: Jewelry -- Simply Bezeled (Bezel Pendant)
Midtown Hacker Lab 1715 I Street, Sacramento, CA 95811 Map

Cancellation Policy

Please be aware: Most of our one-on-one classes require students to register at least 48 hours ahead of class time, after which they will be marked 'Not available'. Our regular cancellation policy of 48 hours of advance notice also applies.