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Join us for this Beginners/Intermediate one day cold forging class. What is cold forging? Cold forging mean we will be hammering the annealed metal at room temperature. Using hammers and saws we will divide and shape a copper rod into a double ring shape. Learn to anneal, move, taper and flare the metal. It doesn’t have to end up being a ring, you can push this design as far as you want to. The goal is to learn how to get the metal to do what you want, when hammered.    


Students Please Bring: Please bring to class if you have (Magnification, Bench Mate vice, micro burnishers, setting and hart burs, safe files and sticky wax). If you don’t have these things, just bring a good attitude, because we have enough to share.  Copper is included in class fee, silver is extra.

Instructor: Jody Lyle is a goldsmith with over 23 years of experience designing and making jewelry. It all started in a high school jewelry class which lead to a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from the University of North Texas , to be followed by many jewelry classes and workshops all over the west. Outside of the classroom, the world’s influences continued to inspire her with travels to places to view art in Egypt, Greece, Mexico, and the British Isles. Jody’s jewelry collections have been shown throughout New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado, the San Francisco bay area, and now on Bainbridge Island. Jody continues to hone her skills, acquiring new techniques and is continually expanding the definition of her jewelry. As a child Jody learned that for a day to be satisfying, one had to make something. This is simple but it still holds true.

Email: jody@jodylyle.com