Today was the first day of Casting class at Rio Grande‘s Winter Workshop, being taught by Phillip Scott (who taught Intermediate Stone Setting when I was here last year) and Gregg Burgard. Phil’s link only takes you to his Rio Grande bio page, because Google didn’t want to yield up any other results for the […]
Today was Day 2 of the Soldering class at Rio Grande‘s Winter Workshop, again taught by the incredibly clever (and easy on the eyes) Mark Nelson. While today only yielded one overall piece of jewelry, it covered a variety of techniques, solders, and more information on flux capacities (yeah, the geek in me almost typed […]
Today was the first day of my Soldering class at Rio Grande‘s Winter Workshop. Technically you might say that I already “know” soldering, but after having taken classes at Rio Grande last year I became fully aware that what you can learn there is a different caliber of knowledge than what I was learning back […]
So this is the first new post being actually put up on my jewelry blog here at The Orchid Blogs Network. I hadn’t realized just how long I’d been neglecting it. Good thing it’s not a plant. I figure it’s appropriate that I don’t delay another day since I was in day 2 of Charles […]