To Become My Own Jeweler

In early post, I complained that it's become hard to find the accessorise I like to wear. I'm not interested in those mass produced accessories. Things I like tend to be too expensive to afford, yet I do not want to complomise my style. So, what can be the solution?

Well, I would design and make my own accessories then!

Therefore, I started taking a basic jewelry making class. That was a 6-weeks-course, and 7 students were in the class. We had the instructor from a local jewelry shop, and she tought us all the basic skills.

Those are basic tools for jewelry making. Hammers, a forming block, bezer rollers, files and  etc... Our class assignment was to make rings. So, we used those tools to cut, bent , and filed metal and formed it into the shapes we like. It was very time consuming and frustrating. Sometimes, it took me hours to file a part!!

This is the picture of the soldering station. We used this torch to solder the parts together. Soldering was the most fun and the hardest part. It could go wrong so easly, but we had to do it right to finish our assignment.

Here is the finished product. I could have done better, but this ring is totally wearble, and concidering this is my first time making anything like this, I am satisfied.
The 2nd session of this class has just begun. I hope I can report what I am working on right now in future post.