MASTER CLASS: Tools and Jigs for Multiples with Jayne Redman

MASTER CLASS: Tools and Jigs for Multiples with Jayne Redman

Class | Available

Master Class
10/12/2025-10/17/2025
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$700.00

MASTER CLASS: Tools and Jigs for Multiples with Jayne Redman

Class | Available

Creating findings that combine form with function will add to the uniqueness of your designs. The challenge is in duplicating them! Jayne Redman will show you how by introducing you to the many methods of making tools and jigs she has developed.

 

This workshop will focus on ways to duplicate three dimensional shapes in wire including linkage systems, ear wires, clasps, and other unique findings. You will make a series of tools that will give you time saving ways of measuring, cutting, connecting and forming sheet and wire accurately in coils, circles, and straight lengths. 

 

Learn how to modify pliers to create perfect wire loops with accurate inside diameters, tapered tube crimps to attach tubular clasps to chain or neck wire coils, notches in handmade ear posts, and specialty forming pliers.

 

Hard and thermal reactive plastics are perfect for forming tools and jigs that won't mar metal. Some of the tools you will make include a "u" tool for conforming both sides of a shape at once, pushing tools that model metal in various ways, and a fingernail tool that will slide over and under shapes to be bent, and assist in closing loops. Design multiple jigs for single and reverse curve ear wires and linkage systems, and easily duplicate cloisonne wires.

 

You will gain the knowledge to comfortably modify existing tools and invent tools and jigs of your own design. You will be able to make exact duplicates of your forms and findings, enhancing your craftsmanship and adding appeal to your jewelry.

 

Techniques taught:

• How to make your own forming tools for sheet and wire

• How to easily modify metal tools including pliers

• Making jigs with acrylic, delrin, thermal plastic and wood

• Tips and tricks using flex shaft accessories

• Drawing wire

• Using a drill press for milling

• Using the Jayne Redman Rotational Bench Pin or WorkRing as a hands-free work surface

 

To view projects click the links below:

 

https://youtube.com/shorts/MBpiBZiFcXI?si=gA0tc_dvkQLH94JR

 

https://youtube.com/shorts/L4tuyLf7PxM?si=IP50gSuZAQMruj6j

 

 

Kit Fee: $150.  Includes:

 

  • Wooden dowel set of 9, maple block 1/4” x 3” x 3”
  • Delrin block prepared for jigs, 3” x 3” x 3/4”
  • Delrin block, 3” x 3” x 1/4”
  • Delrin rods
  • Acrylic square, 6” x 6” x 3/16”
  • Thermal plastic 
  • Skip tooth saw blades
  • Assorted flex shaft accessories
  • Round/flat nose pliers for modification
  • Bent chain nose pliers for modification
  • Chain nose pliers for modification
  • Delrin pliers
  • Tweezers
  • Steel rods
  • Nickel sheet
  • Drill bits
  • 4’ specially hardened sterling wire
  • 4’ Brass wire
  • Handouts

 

Tools and Materials supplied by students or workshop venue:

 

Rio Grande stock numbers given for reference:

20 gauge half hard sterling wire

Flexible shaft: Rio Grande -  Or Dremel: Home Depot

Cylinder burs – These are hard to find right now. The link goes to a set from Amazon. Contenti has some also.

Bur life: Rio Grande

Saw frame: Rio Grande (My new favorite is the Green Lion Big Belly Saw Frame)

Wax file: Rio Grande

Assorted Needle Files: Rio Grande

Flush cutters: Rio Grande

Dividers: Rio Grande

Scribe: Rio Grande

Flat nose pliers: Rio Grande, these will be modified

Metal shears like Joyce Chen shears

For working with thermal plastic: Stainless steel or aluminum pot, stainless steel spoon, bowl at least 6” in diameter for ice water. Hot plate or other heat source for keeping water close to boiling temperature in the metal pot.

Cooking spray like Pam

Apron

Dust mask

Safety Glasses

Eye magnification if needed   

 

Office supply store like Staples or Amazon for:

Compass

Scissors

Double stick tape

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

 

Optional:

Fine nose pliers set: Rio Grande, to be used for modifying for additional purposes

Online Metals, Round bar pack natural acetal - Discount price for Delrin rod assortment

Japanese Pull Saw: Hida Tool, Home Depot, Amazon, fantastic saws for plastic and wood!

Round drawplate  with Tungsten Carbide inserts: Rio Grande

Draw tongs: Rio Grande

Foredom drill press : Rio Grande

Or Mini Drill Press: Rio Grande

Wolf Wax High Speed Cylinder Bur Set: Otto Frei – a good deal. This is the only way to get Wolf Cylinder burs now.

Wolf Wax Trimmer: Rio Grande

Non Marring Vise Jaw Accessory – Amazon


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**MINIMUM OF 6 STUDENTS REQUIRED FOR THIS CLASS

     

     

     

    Redman, Jayne
    Jayne Redman

    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.