There are still a few spaces available in:
August Classes:             September Classes:
· Fabrication 3              · Fabrication 5 
· Fabrication 4              · Fabrication 6             
· Repair 1                    · Metal Clay 1           
· Repair 2                    · Metal Clay 2             
· Polishing                    · Platinum 1: Intro        
                                  · Forged Rings                                                         · Rendering
                                                               · Design
October Classes:                                      · Diamonds                             
· Heavy Bezels                                       
· Granulation 3
· Wax 1
· Wax 3

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Classes fill quickly, so reserve your spot today!

Photo: Box Ring from Fabrication 3 in 14k gold, sterling and carnelian by Revere student, Jamie Green

Once every two years, we offer Revere Academy East, a special opportunity to immerse yourself in jewelry for a week. This is especially appealing for those on the East Coast who can take our most popular classes close to home. Students and staff stay in cozy stone and wood dorms overlooking the Blue Ridge Mountains as the fall leaves turn color. Classes cover the same materlal, using the same tools and equipment, and are taught by the same experienced instructors as our classes in San Francisco.

Session 1:                                Session 2:
· Fabrication 1                          · Fabrication 2
· Fabrication 3                          · Jewelry Design        
· Exploring Mokume-Gane         · Catches, Clasps & Closures      
· Granulation 1                         · Granulation 3          
· Setting 1                               · Setting 2 

 

Whenever you rub a steel tool against a gemstone, you risk scratching the stone. Whether it is a file or a burnisher or a cup bur, if the surface of the tool is rough, the risk of damage is high.

Unfortunately most factory tools are not finished sufficiently and require some fine tuning at your bench before putting them to use. Just as finishing files are prepared with a polished safe edge for working around stones, and burnishers are always polished to impart a polish, so should cup burs be finished, to avoid damaging stones.

Every time you use a new cup bur, take a moment to polish the end first. Place the bur in the hand piece of your flexible shaft machine and hold the flat end against some 4/0 polishing paper. Spin the bur and polish the end, avoiding contact with the interior cuts of the bur. Now when you use this bur to work around prongs, even if the it accidentally touches the stone, there is far less risk of scratching it.

 

Just off the press! Here's the line-up:

· Rivets & Screws with Julia Turner, April 5-6, 2008
· Torch Fired Enameling with Deborah Lozier, April 5-6, 2008
· Imaginative Captures with Andy Cooperman, April 7-11, 2008
· Exploring Enameling with Linda Darty, April 7-11, 2008
· Saw & Champlevé Enameling with Linda Darty, April 12-13, 2008
· Zougan-Japanese Inlay with Naohiro Yamada, April 14-18, 2008
· Design for Survival with Thomas Mann, April 15-18, 2008
· Project Object with Thomas Mann, April 19-20, 2008
· Forging for Jewelers with Jack da Silva, April 19-20, 2008
· Clasps, Catches and Kinetic Movements with Felix Stüssi, April 21-25
· Hori-Japanese Engravng with Naohiro Yamada, April 21-25, 2008
· Advanced Hori & Zougan with Naohiro Yamada, April 26-27, 2008
· Jewelry Tecniques from Around the World with Felix Stüssi, April 26-27

Recent Revere graduates, Kristy Stone, Shika Bindal, Ruth de Jesus, and Brian Beiriger have been hired as bench jewelers by the Shane Company in several bay area locations. These students were all graduates of the Jewelry Technician and Jewelry Technician Intensive Diploma Programs.

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