[Jewelry making - Article 00079] - [Orchid] [Workshop] Eyewear Making by Brian Adam

[Brian]

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Hello people,

    I'm teaching eyewear making at the Series Summer School at Red Deer
    College, Alberta Canada this year. "Eclectic Eyewear", 7 - 11 July
    2008 Learn to make eyeglasses and make a spectacle. 

    We'll cover frame-building techniques and the optical rules involved
    in designing functional and comfortable prescription eyeglasses. 

    There's an aspect of eye and face adornment that can be attacked
    creatively by almost anyone with enthusiasm armed with some vital
    clues. You may be as experimental and risky as you like. You might
    also make up some working prototypes, or a component library of
    parts, to be further developed back in your studio incorporating your
    own jewellery ideas, processes and materials. 

    Or you may make a fabulous one-off 3D-sketchg that blows away all my
    fancy rules. 

    As jewellery artists already you may quite easily apply your capable
    skills to making eyewear by first overcoming any concerns you may
    have about the optical rules. I'll demystify that whole area and give
    some really useful guidelines to encourage you to go for it. 

    The course covers: 

    * Historical and contemporary eyewear overview. 
    * Frames - designing for lenses, eyewire channel and monofilament
       nylon. 
    * Lenses - shaping, edging, grooving, drilling, tapping, colouring. 
    * Soldering with precision. 
    * Optical bits ans pieces. 

    Bring a mirror to prop up in front of you on the workbench. 

    Red Deer College course no 841: http://tinyurl.com/3slegu 

    You may email me directly if you want to ask me anything about it.
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