Rolling Mill Workshop – Oct.25, 2008 9am-4pm at Whaley Studios – San Diego, CA USA

Workshop Topics

  •  Alloying jewelry metals
  •  How to alloy different colors and karats of gold from 24K and pre-mixed alloys, and making sterling silver from fine silver and copper or S88 alloy.
  •  Strategies for selecting and adjusting ingot molds for correct sized finished wire and sheet stock.
  •  Melting and pouring ingots with a torch.
  •  Care and maintanance of rolling mills.
  •  Making basic square wire stock.
  •  Making a true square, rectangular wire, bezel stock, tapering wire for the drawplate.
  •  Correct annealing of wire and sheet stock, coiling and wrapping for annealing wire.
  •  Upsetting rectangular stock for narrowing.
  •  Reshaping larger wire shapes into smaller wire forms.
  •  Using the mill to make sheet stock “dead flat”.
  •  Using drawplates to make wire stock.
  •  How to straighten wire.
  •  Assorted rolling mill tricks for making fancy stock.
  •  Roller printing with assorted materials.
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