[Jewelry making - Article 00091] - Re: [Orchid] Metals class for kids

[Linda Gebert]

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    You didn't say just what all you'd be teaching, but in my experience,
    if you are teaching soldering, 13 should be the absolute lower limit
    in age. I taught adult and youth metals classes at Wichita Center for
    the Arts for many years, and that was our restriction. Even then it
    required diligent watching. One student poked his soldering tweezers
    into the "holes" in a strip running along the work stations shorting
    out half the room's electricity, thankfully not electrocuting himself
    in the process. His comment "I didn't know it was electric, they're
    supposed to be on the wall, not a table." Also, at first they're
    often afraid of the torches, but as they became more confident, some
    were too careless with them, creating many new burned spots and
    mini-fires.Perhaps a session on cold connections would be a nice
    alternative. Just a few of my experiences as food for thought. 

Linda Gebert
http://homepage.mac.com/lgebertsilverjewelry
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