Portland 2010 Registration IS NOW OPEN!

Melissa Manley
9:00 - 4:30
Wednesday - Oct 6

P299 - Forged, Milled & Changed

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$ 140  

Learn textural METALSMITHING! Hammer, heat and yes, roll metal! We’ll texture and transform sheets of copper to adhere to book covers using handmade tube rivets much like eyelets. Metal can be squished through a roll mill, much like an old wringer washer, with textural items like dried leaves to create fabulous detail. This texture can be further embellished with hammering and stamping. In the words of a former student of mine “hammering is good!”  So bring a book to adorn and come play with us. Ironically though we’ll be squishing metal, this should be a low stress class for you, where we have fun as we explore using a roll mill. WARNING: You may be addicted to metal after this class!

$5 Kit fee payable to the instructor includes:  tubing, patinas

Supplies Needed for Class:

• A bunch of flat, relatively thin, DRY items to roll, like: lace, cardstock cut into shapes, dried leaves, skeletonized leaves from the craft store, aluminum foil pieces, stickers, cicada wings, vegetable bag net, tulle..... the skies the limit!
• 22g Sheet copper- roofing copper from the hardware store works fine (18g, 20g, 24g are also fine to use)
• A book to rivet your copper sheet onto
• 320 grit wet/dry sandpaper for metal
• small metal working hammer I suggest a 4oz ballpein and/or a chasing hammer for stamping
• hand sheers to cut metal -I will be bringing some if you are unsure, or don’t have any, but you’ll have to share mine
• a small steel bench block
• Magnifying/reading glasses, if you need them

Optional items:

• Your own letter stamps if you don’t want to have to share
• fibers/ribbons to embellish scissors to cut fibers
• beads, shells, charms to adorn
• wire for additional adornment
• pliers to work the wire

I’ll bring: roll mill, torches for annealing, patinas tubing for rivets a hole puncher and other tools to share.