Our Studio
Our fully equipped garden jewellery workshop is situated in Litherland, Liverpool, Merseyside.
We offer a full range of jewellery and silversmithing workshops and classes. Unless otherwise stated, no experience is necessary for our beginners 6 week jewellery courses or for most of our fun taster classes. We also offer silversmithing and specialised technique workshops for the more advanced students who have completed various courses or classes.
Each student attending our jewellery school will have their own workbench fitted with a bench peg, Foredom quick release pendant drill and overhead magnifier light. Each bench also has its own soldering station with 2 hand held gas torches. Each work bench also has all the hand tools you'll need - plier set, needle files, jewellers saw and blades, stone setting tools, hand clamps, ring mandrel and sizers plus more. You will also have access to the wide range of bench machinery - Pillar Drill, grinders, polishers, rolling mill and hydraulic press.
Our large soldering station for use when making large items or for casting - has enough room for two students to work side by side at the same time. the soldering station has a Smiths Little torch with various burners as well as 2 x Sievert torches with different size burners - each with its own propane tank. There are also various turntables, tripods, charcoal and honeycomb blocks and plenty of soldering tweezers picks and third hands.
We also have a larger tool station, which has a hydraulic press, polisher and grinder, a rolling mill and various hammers, blocks, and sandbags etc.
In short we should have everything you would need to create your designs.
Our class sizes are small to allow you dedicated time with your tutor and also to allow access to the bench tools without having to queue to use them.
For more information on dates and times, please contact us.
We offer a full range of jewellery and silversmithing workshops and classes. Unless otherwise stated, no experience is necessary for our beginners 6 week jewellery courses or for most of our fun taster classes. We also offer silversmithing and specialised technique workshops for the more advanced students who have completed various courses or classes.
Each student attending our jewellery school will have their own workbench fitted with a bench peg, Foredom quick release pendant drill and overhead magnifier light. Each bench also has its own soldering station with 2 hand held gas torches. Each work bench also has all the hand tools you'll need - plier set, needle files, jewellers saw and blades, stone setting tools, hand clamps, ring mandrel and sizers plus more. You will also have access to the wide range of bench machinery - Pillar Drill, grinders, polishers, rolling mill and hydraulic press.
Our large soldering station for use when making large items or for casting - has enough room for two students to work side by side at the same time. the soldering station has a Smiths Little torch with various burners as well as 2 x Sievert torches with different size burners - each with its own propane tank. There are also various turntables, tripods, charcoal and honeycomb blocks and plenty of soldering tweezers picks and third hands.
We also have a larger tool station, which has a hydraulic press, polisher and grinder, a rolling mill and various hammers, blocks, and sandbags etc.
In short we should have everything you would need to create your designs.
Our class sizes are small to allow you dedicated time with your tutor and also to allow access to the bench tools without having to queue to use them.
For more information on dates and times, please contact us.
The heart of the studio - our student benches. Our intimate studio has four student benches, which means no class is overfull. Each bench has a tray with its own hand tools which can be stored on the lower shelf, leaving you with more workspace above.
Each student bench is equipped with its own bench peg and hand tools
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and tools are kept in a tray which can be stored beneath the bench for more space on top
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Tutor bench
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Metal and Flame Jewellery School
Weather permitting, you can have your tea or lunch in the garden |
Tool Station
Hydraulic Press, Drill Press, Bench Grinder and Polisher |
Tool Station
Pickle Pot, Ultrasonic, Barrel Polisher, Mini grinder and polisher with pendant drill |
Tool Station
Rolling Mill to add texture to your metal |
Tool Station
Hammers - from nylon and rawhide Mallets to texture hammers for texturing and shaping your metal |
Tool Station
Sand bag and steel blocks. Doming and Swage blocks. Disc cutter, Punches which include alphabet, numeral and various decorative designs |
Tool Station
Mandrels and Triblets in different shapes and sizes which include - round and oval bangle mandrels. Neck mandrel and various shaped mandrels - teardrop, heart, star, oval, rectangle square, triangle |
Tool Station
Ring and bangle sizers |
Benches
Each student has their own bench with cutout and bench skin. Each student bench will have a set of safety glasses, and hand tools which include, piercing saw, plier set. Files in two grades. |
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Soldering Stations
There is ample space for 2 people to solder at the same time. We have a Smiths Little torch as well as 2 Sievert torches and propane tanks, with different size burners. We also have hand held torches which can also be used at your bench. |
Library
We have lots of inspirational and technical books to help with your designs. We also have various beading and precious metal clay magazines. Lovely to browse through whilst you are having lunch or your tea. |
Kitchen and Chemical Station
We have all the general chemicals jewellers use - pickle, polishing compounds, barrel brite, Silver dips, Liver of sulphur etc, and we also have acid for etching. |
Our studio sits at the bottom of our garden. On hot summer day, for those attending a full day course, the garden is a lovely place to sit and have a bite and a cuppa. There is also a pergola on the opposite side for those preferring a bit of shade.
