This is a comprehensive class that combines the three-day Basic Steel and Gold class and the three-day Etching Steel and Silver workshop.
- Working with mild, cold rolled steel including sourcing, cutting, soldering, forming, textur- ing, patinating and sealing. Materials and supplies required to work with steel.
- Cleaning and prepping steel for fusing and Keum Boo.
- Alloying various karats and colors of gold in preparation for fusing, a skill that can be broadly applied to other metals.
- Heat fusing gold to steel sheet and iron wire. Adaptations for different torches. Managing the fusing process. Trouble shooting.
- Keum Boo on steel. Using the torch and table top kiln to apply gold foil to steel.
- Texturing steel. Hammer and roller patterning steel to add interest to fused pieces.
- Cleaning and prepping steel for etching.
- Chemical and electro-etching steel and silver.