Master Class Weekend Gold Application Techniques with Charles Lewton-Brain 5/10-5/11/25
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MASTER CLASS: GOLD APPLICATION TECHNIQUES WEEKEND 5/10, 5/11
INSTRUCTOR: CHARLES LEWTON-BRAIN
This class lets you paint and design with different metal colors onto background metals. The results of a two year research project for the Society of North American goldsmiths, and 40 years of ongoing research. It includes fusion applications (gold painting), making doublee, Keum-boo, depletion gilding (tumbaga, guanin), fusion inlay, overlay, incised overlay procedures and a discussion of fire gilding and substitution approaches.
Class Kit Fee: $0
Consumables Fee: $35 (includes Copper for projects)
Estimated Materials Fee:0
Prerequisites: None
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**MINIMUM OF 6 STUDENTS REQUIRED FOR THIS CLASS
Students Please Bring:
- Notebook, pens, camera to record samples if desired.
- Sterling sheet in mixed gauges, sterling wire, various carat 14 or 16g gold wire or some old gold jewelery scrap to make the wire from-mixed material that you would not use for anything else is good.
- Gold enamelling or keum-boo foil, one per person, OR a minimum one gram 24k gold grain or sheet for you to make keum-boo foil with. (Suggested source is a coin shop)
- Solder, Hemostat is recommended.
- Your favorite hand tools, saw, pliers, flex shaft etc.
- Silicon carbide separating discs, and flex shaft screw mandrel for them
- Safety glasses and ear plugs or muffs
- Emery paper selection
- Your favorite hammers, chasing tools, stamps, chasing tools etc.
- Wiggly pattern scissors, and any paper stamps you have (like the scrapbookers use), don’t worry about buying them if you don’t have these.
Charles Lewton-Brain
Charles Lewton-Brain learned and worked in Germany, Canada and the United States. His work is concerned with nature and structure. His jewelry and research into compositional systems for metal working has been published internationally. He invented and disseminated foldforming, a system of working sheet metal new to the field. Charles received Canada’s highest honor for Craft, The Saidye Bronfman Governor Generals Award. He co-founded the Ganoksin.com Project with Dr. Hanuman Aspler in 1996, now the worlds largest educational website for jewelers. He has over 1000 pages of his writing there.