Dies 3 Ways with Jayne Redman

Dies 3 Ways with Jayne Redman

Class | Available

Master Class

10/20/2024-10/25/2024

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$750.00

MASTER CLASS: DIES 3 WAYS WITH JAYNE REDMAN

This is not your everyday die-forming workshop! Put an inventive and non-conventional spin on three ways of die-forming to reproduce your designs quickly and accurately. Silhouette dies allow you to make rounded relief forms in metal. Press from both sides of the die to make mirror images for beads or hollow forms. Use thermal reactive plastic for quick contour inserts.  Non-conforming dies carved from cast acrylic add contour and detail to your forms. Combine a silhouette die and a non-conforming die into a hybrid die for both contour and larger relief areas.  Make conforming intensifiers with thermal plastic. Design and create blanking dies to instantly cut out the exact shapes you form, or incorporate your shape within a larger outline.

Class Kit Fee: $150
Est Materials Fee: $0 to $20
Prerequisite: Previous experience with sawing, filing and using a flex shaft. basic jewelry skills like sawing, drilling and soldering.

To view projects click the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRn9ULB7e0kT5aEcPXjLnSQ

 

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  • Once you have enrolled and paid tuition, there are no refunds or credits issued for Master Class Workshops if you are unable to attend.
  • By enrolling in a Master Class workshop, you affirm your acceptance of our no refunds policy and represent to us that you possess the appropriate skills to comply with the prerequisites.  
  • In the event that William Holland School must cancel the workshop, a refund or credit will be issued.  
  • Master Classes are not eligible for Instructor Free Class, scholarships or Instructor family member pricing.

**MINIMUM OF 6 STUDENTS REQUIRED FOR THIS CLASS

KIT FEE INCLUDES:

Tool Steel – 2? x 4? x 1/32?, 9? x 4? x 1/32?, 9? x 4? x 3/64?
Circular protractor
Thermal plastic

Cast acrylic – 1/4? x 3? x 3?, 4 pieces
Cast Acrylic – 3? x 3? x 1/2?, 3 pieces
Saw Blades, 2 dozen each, Super Pike, Pike Platinum
Skip Tooth Saw blades
Separating Discs

Snap on Discs and mandrel
Radial Bristle Discs
Screw mandrel
#52 drill bits, #60 drill bits
Handouts

Party Favors!

 

  • Tools and Materials supplied by students or William Holland Lapidary School (**supplied by school)

    **Bonny Doon Hydraulic Press: Rio Grande or other brand such as a Potter Press

    **Flexible shaft: Rio Grande, (foot pedal and handpiece sold separately)  -  Or Dremel: Home Depot

    Center Punch: Rio Grande - Or 1.5mm ball bur: Rio Grande

    Dividers: Rio Grande

    Bur life: Rio Grande

    5" or 6" deep saw frame: Rio Grande

    Flat or half round hand file, #0 or #1 cut, Rio Grande - Or belt sander from a hardware store

    Ball burs such as Lynx Round Bur Sets,  2.7mm to 8mm - Rio Grande #344340, and Lynx Round Bur set .05mm to 2.5mm - Rio Grande #344335

    Round diamond burs: Amazon

    Metal: Copper and/or brass, 23 gauge (roll down from 22 gauge) or thinner to use with blanking dies 1/32” thick – 19 gauge (roll down from 20 gauge)  or thinner to use with blanking dies 3/64” thick

    Copper and/or brass to test dies.

    **Shears like Joyce Chen Shears to cut thin metal: Amazon or Kitchen store

    **For working with thermal plastic: Stainless steel pot, stainless steel spoon, glass or metal bowls for ice water. (Don’t use a plastic bowl, the thermal plastic might stick to it.) Hot plate or other heat source for keeping water close to boiling temperature in the stainless-steel pot.

    **Cooking spray like Pam

    Double stick tape

    Rubber cement or Scotch Permanent Glue Stick - Office supply store like Staples or Amazon

    Scissors - Office supply store like Staples or Amazon

    **Ruler - Office supply store like Staples or Amazon

    Exacto knife - Office supply store like Staples or Amazon

    Paper, including tracing paper and white printer/copier paper. Drawing materials including rulers, Sharpie markers, pencils and erasers, compasses, and plastic circle and oval templates: Office supply store like Staples or Amazon

    Apron

    Dust mask

    Safety Glasses and eye magnification if needed (WH have available to check out or purchase)

    **William Holland will Provide

     

    Optional:

    Bonny Doon Form Box Kit, Rio Grande #1104701    

    Silver or gold sheet: 23 gauge (roll down from 22 gauge) or thinner to use with blanking dies 1/32” thick – 19 gauge (roll down from 20 gauge)  or thinner to use with blanking dies 3/64” thick

    Silver or gold wire for finished pieces - assorted gauges. I use 20 gauge for ear wires.

    Jett Ballistic thermal plastic: Rio Grande

    Wolf Wax Trimmer  used with a cylinder bur to create 90-degree walls on your silhouette die for mirror image pieces

    Wolf Wax High Speed Cylinder Bur: Rio Grande - 25mm x 6.3mm, 25mm x 4.7mm, 25mm x 3.3mm

    Highly recommended! Additional saw blades 2/0 or 3/0,

    Super Pike Saw Blades: Rio Grande

    Original Laser Blades: Rio Grande

    You will receive 4 dozen saw blades in your kit, but you may want more!

Redman, Jayne

Nature provides an endless reference for imagination and invention. The linear quality of stems and the fullness of flower buds inspire my jewelry. I enjoy integrating mechanics with design, allowing each piece to function in a visually intriguing way. I work with multiples of the same shape engineering them to fit precisely giving an abstract impression of their botanical origin. Many years of metalsmithing have taught me the power of simplicity. My forms begin as flat metal shapes and arrive as small sculptures. Their complexity is in their conception as curving planes of origami.

Jayne Redman, a Maine native, earned her B.F.A. in Jewelry and Silversmithing from the Maine College of Art in 1977. She began her jewelry career in New York as a design and production assistant in the fashion jewelry industry. She started her own company, Jayne Redman Jewelry, in 1982 and exhibited her jewelry nationally at Fine Craft Shows. Jayne is the recipient of numerous jewelry design awards including the Niche Awards for Silver Jewelry, Lapidary Journal’s Jewelry Arts Award and was a nominee for the Saul Bell Awards.

Jayne has been featured in articles for Crafts Report, AJM/MJSA Journal, Lapidary Journal, Professional Jeweler, Niche, and Ornament magazines. Examples of her work illustrate the books Art Jewelry Today by Donna Z. Meilach, Making Metal Beads by Pauline Warg, 500 Earrings and 20th Century Jewelry - The Best of the 500 Series by Lark Books. She was a contributor to the books Profiting by Design by Marlene Richey, Celebrating 70 by Karen Lorene, and Linking our Lineage: Twelve Techniques from Twelve Master Smiths edited by Victoria Lansford. She contributed the chapter, The Keum-boo Process: Step by Step, to the book Jewelry Metals edited by James Binnion for the MJSA Press.

After many years of designing and making jewelry for Fine Craft stores and Jewelry Galleries, Jayne now focuses on developing her line of jewelry tools and teaching her innovative engineering and production techniques at Jewelry Schools and Guilds around the country and at her studio in Southern Maine.