JEWELLERY & METALSMITHING
Overview
The Jewellery & Metalsmithing Studio (Room 217) provides students with the opportunity to explore the media and practices of jewellery and metalsmithing. Processes undertaken in the studios include:
- Metal casting in bronze and silver
- Metal fabrication in silver, copper, brass and nickel
- Hot and cold joining techniques
- Soldering using silver or gold solder with natural gas and oxygen or oxyacetylene
- Sawing using jeweller's saw frame
- Filing
- Emerying (by hand or with belt sander)
- Drilling (both drill press and flex shaft)
- Polishing
- Riveting
- Jump rings
- Forging (both hot and cold)
- Surface finishing
- Forming (including forging, smithing, hydraulic press and bending break)
- Machining (unimat, sherline, lathe)
- Milling machine
- Ultrasonic (for cleaning debris off work from polishing)
- Steamer (for cleaning debris off work from polishing)
- Use of mild acid for the cleanup of metal after soldering
- Use of chemicals for the colouring and patination of metal
- Tool making (using grinder and belt sander)
- Plating using pen plater
- Material fabrication (making alloys and ingots for fabricating sheet and wire)
- Drawing wire using draw bench
- Stone setting
Schedule
Jewellery Studio Schedule- Summer 2013
Materials
Consumable materials can be purchased from technicians or class assistants during open studio hours. Please check studio and shop schedules in order to ensure you are not interrupting a class when you go to buy materials. Materials can only be bought using OCAD U tickets. Tickets can be purchased from the Cashier, Monday to Thursday, from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Cashier is located in the Rosalie Sharp Pavilion, 115 McCaul Street, Level 1.
The following materials are readily available for students to purchase:
Sterling Silver
Sheet: 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26 gauge
Wire: round, .8, 1, 1.5, 2, 3, 4 mm
Wire: round, 2, 3, 4 mm
Wire: square, 2, 4, 6 mm
Sterling silver casting grain
Sterling silver tubing: 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5, 5 mm OD
Fine Silver
Sheet: 18, 20, 22, 24, 26 gauge
Wire: round, .5 mm
Fine silver casting grain
Silver solder: hard, medium and easy
Copper
Sheet: 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 gauge
Wire: round: 1, 2, 3, 6.3, 9.5 mm
Pipe: 1.5, 2 inch OD
Brass
Sheet: 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, gauge
Wire: round: 1, 3, 6.3, 12.7 mm
Nickel
Sheet: 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, gauge
Niobium
Sheet: 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28 gauge
Wire: round in a variety of sizes
Bronze Casting Grain
Investment for casting
Wax for Casting:
Blue: sheet & wire
Blue: ring wax in a variety of sizes and profiles
Blue: sprue wax in a variety of sizes
Red: sprue wax in a variety of sizes
Brown sculpture wax
Pink sheet: 20, 22, 24 gauge
Green sheet: 20, 22, 24 gauge
Drill Rod
1/4 Inch Oil Hardened
3/8 Inch Oil Hardened
Findings
Pin backs: nickel and sterling
Tie tack pins
Earring posts and butterflies
Drill bits (4 Pkg containing .8, 1, 1.5, 2mm)
Miscellaneous
Stone setting kits (pusher handles, steel, wax, brass rod)
Pink wheels
Buffs: a variety of small muslin buffs
Screw mandrels
Emery paper: 120, 220, 320, 400, 600, 1200
Saw blades: 1/0, 2/0, 3/0, 4/0, 6/0, 8/0
Spiral wax blades
Flux
Press-N-Peel blue transfer film
Slide sleeves
Saw frames
Styrene sheets (for model making)
Acrylic (for hydraulic press)
Contact
Robert Mitchell
Technician
416-977-6000, Ext. 281
Office: 217a
rmitchell@faculty.ocadu.ca
Kyla Vitek
Technician
416-977-6000, Ext. 281
Office: 217a
kvitek@faculty.ocadu.ca
UPDATES
Welcome all spring/summer 2013 students! Only those students enrolled in studio courses have access to the shops and studios during the summer months.
Please check individual studio pages for updated schedules.
WHAT'S NEW?
Thank you to all who participated in TOOLBOX 2012!
A celebration of studio based education
Wednesday, November 7 & Thursday, November 8