Jewelry Mechanisms, with Charity Hall

Create your own kinetic mechanisms to make your jewelry move. In this workshop, we will make a silver slide-to-open hinged locket with a stone set clasp. In addition we will make several other kinetic components, including stone set hinges, ball and socket joints, spinners, and more! Make your jewelry interactive and playful by incorporating these mechanisms.

ARTIST BIO

Charity Hall is an enamelist and metalsmith in Blacksburg, Virginia who creates biologically-inspired artwork. She shares her passion for metal and enamel through teaching workshops at Penland, John C. Campbell Folk School, Touchstone Center for Craft, and many other locations across the country. Charity's work is included in museum collections, including the Mint Museum and Philadelphia Museum of Art. Her work is currently shown at the Penland Gallery and Metal Museum, and is also featured in several books, including 500 Enameled Objects: A Celebration of Color on Metal, Humor in Craft, and New Rings: 500+ Designs from Around the World. www.charityhall.com

TOOL LIST

• Dividers 
• Digital calipers or ruler with millimeter markings 
• Miter jig (optional, but helpful) 
• Bur life 
• Jeweler's Saw frame 
• Bench pin 
• Ring clamp 
• Flat nylon pliers 
• Wire solder (hard, medium, easy 12” of each) 
• Sawblades 3/0 
• Bezel setting punch (these come as a set, but you will really only need the 3.25mm and 3.5mm sizes) 
• sandpaper/finishing abrasives 
• pliers (round/flat) 
• Files (large flat bastard file and needle files) 
• Drill bits #51  
• Drill bits #55 
• Drill bits #56 
• Riveting hammer 
• Chasing hammer 
• Chasing tools (especially liners) 
• Rawhide mallet

SUPPLY LIST: 

8mm sterling silver bead, 100% sterling, not plated 2

5mm sterling silver bead, 100% sterling, not plated 2

14 ga sterling round wire 6"  

Sterling silver sheet 22ga 3"x3" 1  

Sterling silver sheet 24 ga 3"x3" 1

Sterling round wire 12ga 6"  

Sterling round wire 18ga 12"  

Sterling Silver 3mm Seamless Heavy-Wall Tubing, Hard, 12" Length Rio Grande Item No. 100425 1 You will only need about 6" of this, but it is sold in 12" lengths 

2.5mm round faceted stones (cubic zirconia come in all colors and are recommended for their precise sizing) 6  

2.5mm setting bur - Lynx brand preferred 1  

2.3mm ball bur - Lynx brand preferred 1  

Round gemstone beads 3  

Sterling Silver 1.45mm Seamless Tubing, Hard, 12" Length Rio Grande Item No. 100099 1 You will only need about 1" of this, but it is sold in 12" lengths 

Sterling rectangular wire 4mmx1mm Rio Grande Item 100541 12"  

Wire solder (hard, medium, easy 12” of each)  

optional: any other sterling wire, sheet, or tubing