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New Class! Textured Toggle Pendant with Stone
$98.00Date and Time: 08/03/2025 from 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Maggie Joynt
Prerequisites: Basic soldering skills.
Use many metal working skills to make this highly functional and aesthetic pendant that doubles as a toggle clasp. Saw out a hole, create a rivet, texturize your metal, and create a bezel for your stone. This is a classy piece and you get to hone your skills in the making.
Sawing & Soldering
$88.00Date and Time: 06/29/2025 from 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Maggie Joynt
Prerequisites: Basic sweat soldering skills.
In this metal working class, learn some precision sawing techniques to create negative space. Take the shape just sawed out and solder it on the pendant to create texture. Your pendant will be one-of-a-kind. A great project for honing your sawing and soldering skills.
Metalwork Buffet Pendant
$88.00Date and Time: 06/12/2022 from 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Lonna Keller
Prerequisites: Soldering Sampler or equivalent skills (spot and sweat soldering).
Join UI Adjunct Professor Lonna Keller in this buffet of metal working classes. You will spot and sweat solder, saw, and texturize and/or stamp metal to make a pendant. These are all the basic skills of metalworking all in one project.
Metal Chain Making and “S” Hook
$105.00Date and Time: 06/24/2018 from -
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Kelly Kinser
Prerequisites: Soldering skills--see Soldering Sampler on June 10.
Learn to form, cut, and close your own jump rings that are consistent in size and shape. Then use your soldering skills to make them into a chain. You will also learn to make an “S” hook clasp for your chain.
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! Metals Smorgasbord
$128.00Date and Time: 07/15/2017 from -
Capacity: 8
Instructor: Holland Houdek
Prerequisites: Soldering skills
Holland Houdek, our metals instructor, is leaving to head up a metals department at a university in another state. This will be her last class and will be a full day of soldering, sawing, filing, drilling, bezeling, and etching. Come for a full day of metalworking review.
Soldering Sampler
$88.00Date and Time: 05/25/2025 from 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Maggie Joynt
Prerequisites: No experience necessary.
This workshop involves the fundamentals of soldering. Learn and hone a variety of soldering skills—connecting an open jump ring, adding a ring to another piece, and more. Practice both sweat and spot soldering. Leave with a variety of samples and a new set of skills.
This class serves as a pre-requisite for many metal working classes.
Soldering Sampler–This Class is Full! See 5/29 or call to get on waiting list!
Date and Time: 05/28/2023 from 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Maggie Joynt
Prerequisites: No experience necessary.
This workshop involves the fundamentals of soldering. Learn and hone a variety of soldering skills—connecting an open jump ring, adding a ring to another piece, and more. Practice both sweat and spot soldering. Leave with a variety of samples and a new set of skills.
This class serves as a pre-requisite for many metal working classes.
This class is full. See class on 5/29 or call 319-338-1566 to get on the waiting list. When there are two people on the list, we will work to make a new session.
New Class! Spinner Ring–only 2 seats left!
$88.00Date and Time: 04/13/2025 from 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Capacity: 6
Instructor: Maggie Joynt
Prerequisites: Basic soldering skills.
Use your soldering skills to make a ring band. Then make a smaller ring that will spin freely around the band. A fascinating piece of jewelry to help you through the stress of the day. Click for more information and a video!