- $100
Wear Your Story - a wearable book necklace
Wear Your Story - a soldered wearable book
Everyone has a story. This one begins with a creme brûlée torch and a roll of solder.
Join me for this technique-packed wearable book workshop. Using materials easily sourced at your local hardware and craft store, you will forge small relic-like book covers. You’ll learn various techniques for adding content to your book. Then, using a centuries-old technique, you’ll bind it all together into a tiny tome to hold your unique story. You won’t stop there though. Using your favorite beads and found objects, I will guide you through several methods of turning your book into a head-turning piece of jewelry you’ll be proud to wear.
The techniques you learn in this workshop will arm you to make books of all sizes. They include:
- How to pool solder onto base metal and attach metal findings
- How to add patina to metal
- How to prepare a photo and add it to your book cover
- Coptic bookbinding
- The process of preparing paper to be bound into a book
- Various jewelry techniques including wire wrapping and how to make hook fasteners from wire
You will have access to this course forever.
* I am offering a kit for $30 plus shipping which includes these materials.
** These tools are not necessary if you purchase a kit.
** These tools are not necessary if you purchase a kit.
Work Space, Materials and Tools
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WORK SPACE, MATERIALS AND TOOLS
- Ventilation
- Closed toe shoes
- Apron
- Mask - particulate dust mask for sanding and/or mask respirator for solder
- No loose clothing or hair
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WORK SPACE, MATERIALS AND TOOLS
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• Soldering tools- Hard Solderite pad or other fireproof surface to solder on (6 x 6 is $9.25 at Rio Grande) ceramic tiles (two)
- Level
- Torch - Examples: Iwatani cooking torch ($28), 8 oz can of butane fuel for $10, BonJour from Bed, Bath and Beyond for $30, Blazer micro torch - $50
- Old pliers, pick
- Tray of water
- Towel
- Old toothbrush, sponge
- * Green scrubby pad
- Baking soda
- Ruler
- Patina - Novocan Black Patina for lead and solder
- * Steel Wool - Extra fine 0000
- * Sandpaper - 220, 320, 400
- Drill with 1/16” bit, flexible shaft or hole-punching pliers (1.25 mm)
- Fine tip Sharpie
- Spring-loaded center punch or center punch and hammer
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• Bookbinding tools
• Paper awl
• Bone folder
• * #5 Darner needles (two)-
Jewelry tools
- ** Rawhide mallet
- ** Metal cutting shears (not serrated)
- ** Files
- Pliers - flat nose, round nose (Rio Grande or Contenti)
- Flush cutters
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Jewelry tools
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• Materials
• * Brass or copper sheet or strip - 24-26 gauge (Rio Grande or K & S Metal - Ace Hardware)
.016 = 26 gauge and .032 = 20 g
• * Solder - lead free, no acid core or rosin core (Canfield DGS $34/lb from Delphi Glass or Oatey)
• * Flux - Oatey H-2O Paste Flux
• * Flux brush
• * Findings - brass, copper, buttons, old jewelry (talk about what to watch out for)
• Photos or other paper if using
• Distress Ink
• Mod Podge
• Resin - jewelry grade (Ice Resin)
• Fine tip Sharpie
• Center punch
• * Jump rings OR larger hole - could be cut with jewelers saw
• * Leather, ribbon or waxed linen thread
• * Paper
• * 2-ply waxed linen thread (Royalwood Ltd. for spools, Lima Beads or other sites for smaller amounts)
Jewelry materials
• * Chain
• * Leather
• Beads
• Wire - 24 g for wrapping, 16 g for hooks
* I am offering a kit for $30 plus shipping which includes these materials.
** These tools are not necessary if you purchase a kit.