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Making Hollow Formed Beads

Making Hollow Formed Beads. Are you a bead-a-holic? This class explores making your own riveted and soldered beads using various metals including sterling, copper, brass, bronze, colored aluminum, niobium and tin. Work with textured metals and use textured hammers, metal stamps and chasing tools to create your own designs. You will learn the basics of metal forming, texturing, soldering, drilling, working with tubing, and finishing in this workshop and take home with you a variety of round beads for use in your own jewelry creations.