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BARN member:  $180 (4 sessions)
Non-member:  $198 (4 sessions)

Tuesdays, November 1, 8, 15 & 22 from 9 am to 12 noon

Materials fee: $25 (cash or check to BARN payable in class)

Add a bit of sparkle to your jewelry in this class. This is a great class if you want to incorporate smaller faceted stones to your jewelry designs. A tube setting is a secure setting, where the stone is held inside the tube by the tube walls after a seat is cut. We will be using burs, files, pushers and punches to set the stones. It will teach you the important basics and give you a better understanding of all traditional faceted stone settings. 
This class will show you more ways to use the flex-shafts in the jewelry studio. Tube setting is a versatile addition to your growing skills, and is a good next step after bezel setting. You will have the opportunity to make a pendant or earrings, but the class will focus on the skills more than a finished product. This is a challenging class and you should be comfortable with basic bezel setting and be able to solder on your own.

Students should bring loupes or magnifiers, digital caliper, ring clamps, vices, files, setting burs, flex shaft hammer, pushers, punches and burnishers if they have them.

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.