Intermediate Silver Jewellery Workshop

Make a Spinner Ring and Lentil Bead

Ready to take the next step in your jewellery-making journey?

In this intermediate workshop you’ll build on your existing skills and learn how to create two beautiful and technically satisfying pieces of jewellery:

• A spinner ring with a moving outer band
• A lentil bead formed from two domed pieces of silver

These projects introduce new techniques that bring dimension and movement into your jewellery making, while helping you build on the core skills you’ve already begun to develop.

If you’ve completed the Silver Jewellery Workshop or already have some basic experience with sawing and soldering, this is the perfect course to deepen your skills.

What You’ll Learn

In this professionally filmed, online workshop you’ll continue developing your fundamental jewellery-making skills while learning techniques that add complexity and interest to your work.

You’ll learn how to:

• Saw, drill and file your pieces with greater accuracy
• Create a wide ring band suitable for a spinner ring
• Fit and shape a thin spinning outer band
• Use doming punches to create form and dimension in metal
• Shape silver into even domes
• Create a lentil bead from two domed pieces of silver
• Solder a domed bead cleanly and securely

Along the way you’ll gain a deeper understanding of how silver behaves and how jewellers create form and movement in their designs.

The Projects

Spinner Ring

Spinner rings are loved for their tactile movement.

In this project you’ll learn how to create a wide silver band and add a thin outer band that spins freely around it.

You’ll discover how to:

• Form and solder the wide base ring
• Fit a thinner outer ring so it moves smoothly
• Refine and finish your ring for a professional result

The finished piece is both elegant and satisfying to wear.

Lentil Bead

Next you’ll create a classic lentil-shaped bead using doming punches.

This project will teach you how to:

• Dome two pieces of silver evenly
• Align the domes accurately
• Solder them together to form a hollow bead

This is a fantastic skill to learn as it opens up many possibilities for creating dimensional forms in jewellery.

Working with Doming Tools

A key technique in this workshop is learning to use doming punches and blocks.

These tools allow you to transform flat metal into beautifully curved shapes, giving your jewellery more depth and sculptural interest.

Once you understand how to create even domes, you’ll be able to apply this skill to many other jewellery projects.

Who This Course Is For

This workshop is ideal for jewellers who:

• Have completed the Silver Jewellery Workshop
• Already know the basics of sawing, drilling, filing and soldering
• Want to develop their jewellery-making skills further
• Are ready to try slightly more advanced projects

If you’re looking for a next step that will stretch your skills while still being achievable, this course is the right one for you.

Lifetime Access

When you enrol you’ll receive lifetime access to the course, allowing you to learn at your own pace.

You can revisit the lessons whenever you like and repeat the projects as many times as you wish.

Early Bird Offer

To celebrate the launch of this workshop we’re offering an Early Bird discount of 50% off.

This special price is available for a limited time only.

Continue Your Jewellery Journey

If you enjoyed making your first silver jewellery pieces and want to develop your skills further, this course will help you move forward with confidence.

By the end of the workshop you’ll have created two new pieces of jewellery and gained techniques that will expand what you can make.

Join us and continue building your jewellery-making skills.

FAQs

What tools and materials will I need to complete these projects?

Tools

If you have some experience of jewellery making you shouldn’t need a lot of extra tools. Here is the list:

  • Digital Callipers

  • Permanent marker

  • Saw frame and blades (2/0 is great for this project)

  • Bench peg

  • Hand file

  • Pliers Half round/D shaped pliers, round, snipe

  • Soldering equipment - soldering block, steel fine point tweezers, flux, flux brush, tin snips/solder cutters, torch, gas cannister, bowl of cold water, pickle powder, glass jar or bowl, warm water, brass/copper tweezers

  • Ring mandrel

  • Rawhide or nylon mallet

  • Needle files

  • Buff sticks

  • Sandpaper

  • Bench block

  • Selection of large doming punches

  • Heavy hammer

  • Circle template

  • Glue

  • Scribe

  • Small ball burr

  • Optional - hammer for texturing

  • Rotary tool - Dremel or Foredom (optional for polishing)

  • 3m Radial discs - yellow, dark blue, pink (optional for polishing)

Materials

  • Spinner ring - 0.9mm Silver sheet, 10mm wide x 70mm length

  • 1.5mm round silver wire, 10cm length

  • Lentil bead - 0.8mm Silver sheet, 30mm wide x 60mm length

  • 1mm round silver wire, 10cm length

  • Hard silver solder (required for both projects)