Making Gold Jewellery

Learn to make professional gold jewellery from start to finish with this wonderful progression course

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Are you ready to start working with gold?

This course covers lots of techniques to help you design and make gold and mixed metal rings. Taught by expert jeweller, Hayley Kruger, you will learn how to make:

  • Gold band ring made from 9K yellow gold round wire
  • Hammered yellow gold ring
  • Sterling silver ring with gold nugget embellishment
  • Gold tube set faceted stone on a sterling silver ring

This course is for you if you have some experience of working with silver and are ready to learn to add gold to your skills!


What Will You Get?

  • Ongoing access to comprehensive video lessons, guiding you through all the techniques, tips and tricks
  • Downloadable course notes to work alongside the videos
  • Full list of kit and materials you need to create these gorgeous designs
  • Access to our supportive community of jewellers and tutors to help you at every stage of the process
  • Access to the videos 24/7 - you can stop, pause, rewind and replay as much as you like
  • Excellent close-up shots to see what is happening in each step so you don't miss a thing

Your Instructor


Hayley Kruger
Hayley Kruger
Hayley Kruger is a jewellery designer and jewellery industry professional who has worked in many aspects of the trade since 2002. With a BA Honours in Jewellery and Silversmithing, Hayley went onto work as a designer for many of the UK's most recognisable retailers such as Top Shop, Marks & Spencer, River Island, Next, Lola Rose, Orelia, Morgan and many more.
She taught for many years at the London Jewellery School and has been a mentor for the Jewellers Academy Diploma courses since the beginning, currently mentoring on the Advanced Jewellery Diploma.


Hayley was invited to show her work at the Victoria and Albert Museum, has been published in Vogue, Stylist and Marie Claire to name a few. And she was invited to be an ambassador for Triumph Lingerie's Women in Making campaigns 2013 and 2014.


Using the experience she gained, Hayley now works from her studio in Cirencester on private commissions including engagement rings and shares her knowledge on various aspects of the jewellery industry.


Who better to learn from than an experienced goldsmith?

Course Curriculum


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This course is suitable for jewellers who have experience of working with sheet silver metal and are competent at soldering and basic stone setting.

If you are new to working with silver but would like to give it a try take a look at our beginners course The Silver Jewellery Workshop, the Soldering Masterclass and Stone Setting in Silver first. You will need some experience of tube and cabochon stone setting to make these pieces.

We look forward to welcoming you on the course and seeing your new creations soon


Tools

  • Silver jewellery tool kit including bench peg, saw, needle files, steel block, chasing hammer (for hammered designs)
  • Soldering equipment including torch, soldering block, pickle, steel block, third hand
  • Stone setting - stone setting burr the same size as your stone, pin vice handle, square pusher, curved or straight burnisher

Materials

Note: These are the sizes that Hayley used in the video but the same instructions can be used for other thicknesses of wire from 1mm upwards. The length of wire you require for your projects will depend on your ring size. The course notes include a chart to help calculate how much you may need.

Project 1: 9 carat yellow gold wire, 1.5mm thick

Project 2: 9 carat yellow gold wire, 1.5mm thick

Project 3: 1.5 mm thick sterling silver wire
approx 20mm 9 carat rose gold wire (any offcuts of gold will do. You could also use gold casting grain)

Project 4: 2mm thick sterling silver wire
9 carat yellow gold tube (Hayley used 3.5mm diameter tube approx 8mm depth)
3mm round brilliant cut gemstone

For all projects - silver solder - medium and hard

9 carat gold solder - medium and hard

Suppliers

To source your tools and materials, take a look at our list of worldwide jewellery suppliers https://www.jewellersacademy.com/jewellery-supplie...


Do you need different tools for working with gold?
No, you can use the same tools as you use for working with silver

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