Just two of MANY self-directed earring designs created by students in our shop! On the left, Y.K. made these gorgeous sweat-soldered copper and silver earrings (self-designed). We also sometimes use other mediums in our shop for self-directed projects, including polymer clay (pictured on the right), wood, acrylic, etc. Awesome work!
H.C. in Grade 10 took on this HUGE challenge to make a NIN ring out of hand-cut copper and nickel silver. It was definitely a labor of love (and unfortunately, very hard to photograph, ha!). Excellent work!
The Creative Project combines everything we learn in our first unit of Jewelry/Metalwork 11/12: cutting with a jeweller’s saw, soldering two or more metals together, and sanding/buffing/texturing/finishing metal. Each of these projects is uniquely designed by students, and all are cut entirely by hand. Extra congrats to R.H. for that super tricky guitar – she worked SO dang hard on getting those wires soldered. Awesome work, everyone!
A selection of unique and challenging Creative Projects (minimum 2 types of metal sweat-soldered together) made by senior students. That wolf/deer coin was especially tricky – way to go, everyone!
D.G. in Jewelry 11 went beyond his “eclipse” sweat-solder practise project and created these gorgeous earrings as a gift for his mom. Nickel silver and brass were used, as well as a sheet metal punch to get those perfect circles. Metals were sweat-soldered together, and his finishing touch was stamping a mountain design into both earrings. Beautiful work!
These extra projects were designed and created by Grade 11 student K.C. – WOW! Pitbull was sweat-soldered and had a small heart charm added with a jump ring, and both projects were intricately cut by hand using a jewellers’ saw.
Gorgeous work, K.C.!
These stunning pieces were designed and hand-cut by Senior Jewelry/Metalwork students. Canucks logo by D.G., Tiger by L.J., Cityscape (with tempered skyline and triple-sweat-solder!) by A.K., Lion by K.C., Humpback Whale by B.C., Mountain Biker by E.V.T., intricate Rose cut-out by R.M., Wolf by C.P., Lakers logo by Q.S., Air Jordan by T.B., Butterfly by V.N., and Cat by J.C.
Great work, everyone!
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