In this class students will hand fabricate a capsule pendant for holding tiny found objects. We will fuse and mill our own 18ky and fine silver bimetal to create a two tone pendant for quartz crystals set under a clear watch crystal. 
 
Students will hone their soldering skills with this multilayer construction, learn about depletion gilding and practice bezel setting. Fun will be had. You will have a pendant that jingles.
 
Tool List
Handfiles
Needle files
​saw frame and blades
sanding sticks
bezel roller and/or hammer setting punches
mallet
ring mandrel
round bezel mandrel if you have it
your favorite rotary finishing tools
Soldering tools: tweezers, picks
 
Materials Kit* $190-240 (depending on gold prices), payable to instructor
14mm sapphire watch crystal 
hard and medium silver solder
16g sterling silver sheet
14mm sq x 25g 18k yellow gold sheet
3" 20g sterling silver wire 
5mm x .60mm, 2" silver bezel wire
3mm x .60mm, 2"  silver bezel wire
.90-1mm ball bur
Variety of faceted stones/crystals to put inside!
 
Baleigh Acebo has tinkered with craft and jewelry since she was a wee adolescent. After pursuing a BFA in Creative Writing she realized she had made a terrible mistake on a very expensive education because what she wanted to do was work with her hands.  She then enrolled in the North Bennet Street School’s Jewelry Making & Repair program in Bahston, MA and everything was good again. Baleigh was technically trained to craft her own tools, fabricate intricate pieces from scratch, handset diamonds & precious gems and repair fine jewelry. Baleigh is a process jeweler and gets turned on from the problem solving involved in designing intricate pieces and setting weird stones.  Her work employs bold colors and graceful geometry that she finds inspiring from everyday design. Baleigh works out of her home studio that she shares with her hubs Alex, along with their 3 adorable floofs.