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Casting & Glass Classes Wellington

Casting is an amazing and ancient way to create jewellery!

An excellent technique for absolute beginners to achieve fun results; more advanced students can develop and refine their skills to reach amazing levels of detail and complex designs. These classes book out fast!

Our Leadlight or Stained Glass workshops are a great way to make something on a different scale, and enamels are an excellent technique to add to your fabrication skillset.

Lost Wax Casting Classes - Blocks

Wed Evenings for 6 weeks, 5.30pm - 8pm, $325 Plus materials

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Lost Wax Casual Classes are for those with some lost wax experience.

Lost Wax In Three

Taught over three sessions rather than our block of 6. Learn the basics of working in jeweller's wax to create stunning jewellery using the age-old lost wax technique.

Salt & Water Casting Workshops

This is a super quick and fun way to learn casting. Students will learn to melt and pour sterling silver or shibuichi (a mix of silver and copper) directly into a water or salt. This results in surprising, cute and usable shapes that can be easily turned into simple earrings or pendants or used as elements in your other classes. Three hour taster sessions are best for simple projects. The full day option covers both techniques and can be used to create multiple projects.

Sandcasting Workshops

Students are shown the ancient technique of sand casting, using a wax to make a simple hard model or found objects such as buttons or simple small forms - create your simple 2-part mould and melt and pour sterling silver or shibuichi (a mix of silver and copper) to cast into the sand.

The model you have made or found enables you to make multiple pours possible, until you either get the result you are after or to create multiple pieces. This is a fun process for those who just want to try

their hand at it, or a very useful low-tech process for those who are making jewellery into a

career or creative activity.

Other Casting Workshops

Other casting classes include In-Studio Casting, which is a 4 wk block where students will cover a range of different low-tech casting methods. Ideal for those who want to continue with these techniques in other classes or in their own making. In-Studio Lost Wax casting at our Ōtaki studio, where the art of lost wax casting is covered from go to woah - including spruing up, investing, burning out the flasks and the centrifuge casting. Cuttle Fish Casting is another super low-tech casting class using a simple two-part mould made from cuttlefish "bone".