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Beginning Metal Working: Copper Pendant
$128.00Date and Time: 03/25/2018 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Kelly Kinser
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
In this full day metalworking class, learn the fundamentals of metalworking: cutting, sawing, filing, drilling and other manipulation. Then design your pendant and put your new found or refreshed skills to work. This class serves as a prerequisite for many classes in our metalworking series.

Cupped Copper Earrings through Kirkwood Community College
Date and Time: 07/21/2017 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Karen Kubby
Prerequisites: No experience needed. Ability to make a wrapped loop helpful, not necessary.
Participants will learn to stamp and dap copper disks into earrings of their design. Some may choose to keep their copper bright or oxidize it for a different look. Beads will be added to the center and/or the bottom or bottom. This is an active, fun, and loud class.
Registration is through Kirkwood Community College. Register at:
www.kirkwood.edu and go to Continuing Education and then search for Beadology Iowa under the instructor search. On site registrations will be taken if registration through Kirkwood meets minimum requirements of two participants.
$30 instructor fee/$38 materials fee

Make a Stone/Glass and Metal Ring to Size
$105.00Date and Time: 03/24/2019 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Kelly Kinser
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Learn to make a ring band to size. Then add a stone or glass bead as the focal. This is a way to learn and enhance your metal working skills and to learn tricks to size a ring professionally.

New Class! Bezeled Stone and Silver Ring
$108.00Date and Time: 03/05/2017 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Holland Houdek
Prerequisites: Soldering skills, see Soldering Sampler on Sunday, Feb. 26.
Take your soldering skills to the next level. Size a ring band and connect a bezeled stone to it of your own creation. Be ready to use and expand your metal working skills.

New Class! Make a Sterling “S” Hook Clasp
$98.00Date and Time: 02/24/2018 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Kelly Kinser
Prerequisites: No experience needed.
Use sterling wire to create your own “S” Hook Clasp. This allows you to customize your clasp to best fit the design of a piece of jewelry you have made.
Gyrls Night Out: Embellished Metal Ring
$78.00Date and Time: 03/25/2022 from 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Lonna Keller
Prerequisites: Basic soldering skills. See Soldering Sampler on Jan. 30.
Take your soldering and metal working skills to the next level. Create your design, form your ring to size, and solder your components into place.