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description
Formfolding is an easy way to add excitement and drama to your sheet metal projects. This class will introduce you to some basic folding techniques including line folds, T-folds and cross folds. Your folded sheet will then become the hinged lid for a small copper box suitable for storing jewelry or other precious items. You’ll learn box making skills that you can apply to your own projects.
Formfolded Copper Box
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supply list
- I will supply the following:
- Silver solder and flux
- Copper tubing for hinges
- Pickle solution
- Liver of sulfur
- Felt for interior lining
- 24 gauge copper approx 6 inches x 6 inches.
- Flat nose pliers,
- Metal shears or tin snips,
- Wire cutters – flush cutters preferred but not essential
- Tweezers
- Vise – the kind that attach to the table preferred over the ones with a suction bottom
- Dividers (like a compass but without a pencil…just two pointed ends)
- Small butane torch for soldering (crčme Brule variety will work nicely)
- Soldering pad or firebrick for soldering on
- 2 Small plastic containers to hold water for quenching and pickle solution
- Files, fine sandpaper, sanding block or Scoth-brite type pad for cleaning and polishing
- Small inexpensive brush for applying flux
- Bench Pin
- Optional, but very useful
- Rotary tool (Dremel, Foredom or similar) with cutting discs and attachment. ( I will have a couple to share but work will go more quickly the more we have.)
- Tube cutting jig
- Jeweler’s saw and blades ( #0 or #1)
- Resources: supplies and tools can be found at the following
- www.monsterslayer.com
- www.riogrande.com
- www.sfjssantafe.com
- www.contenti.com
I have had a life-long love affair with art and ‘making stuff’. I began working with metal in 1969 as an assistant to Carmel, CA metal sculptor Malcom Moran. After a brief period of operating my own metal sculpture studio and gallery, I entered the teaching profession. For the past 30 years I have taught art and photography in public school. More recently I have turned to making found-object jewelry as an outlet for my metal work and have been teaching jewelry making classes to adults at various venues in the Southwest. My work has been featured in ‘Step-by-Step Wire Jewelry’ and ‘Jewelry Artist’ magazines and included in Susan Lenart-Kazmer’s book ‘Making Connections’. My artwork can be viewed at www.rsalley.com.
