The Claflin Jewelry Studio regularly hosts technical workshops by both professional craftsmen and student teaching assistants. These workshops are open to all Dartmouth students and faculty and are free with the possible exception of fees for materials. The following is a list of major workshops offered throughout the year at the Claflin Jewelry Studio. Descriptions of jewelry making techniques are adapted from "The Complete Metalsmith" by Tim McCreight.

Silver Bands and Pendants
Covers the processes of bending metal, soldering, filing, sawing and polishing.

Stone Setting
Covers basic stone setting techniques including making bezels and setting cabachon stones.

Classical Chain Making
This process consists of creating and fusing links then shaping and interlocking them to form a chain. There are numerous styles of chain and this workshop covers a few basic varities.

Casting (Lost Wax)
In this workshop a wax model of a project (for example, a ring) is covered in plaster (investment) and burned out in the kiln. Then, using the shop's vacuum casting machine, molten metal is poured into the mold where it assumes the shape of the original model.

Texturing Metals
This workshop focuses on the use of different hammers, chasing tools and the rolling mill to imprint texture on metals.

Box Construction
Covers techniques used to fabricate boxes and lids from sheet metal.

Wax Carving
This technique is used to carve rings from wax using knives, files and the lathe. A follow-up workshop further develops this skill and its use in carving stone settings.

Raising
In this process metal is deformed over a hard surface called a stake and forced to take on a volumetric shape. It is used to make objects such as bowls, candle holders, and cups.

Etching
Covers the use of acid or strong chemicals to selectively corrode or eat away at a metal object to make a design or decoration.

Forging
This is the controlled shaping of metal by the force of a hammer.

Granulation
This is a decorative process using fusing techniques instead of soldering to attach tiny metal balls and wires to the surface of an object to create patterns or figures.

Die Forming
This workshop will cover the process of hydraulic die forming. In this versatile process a metal sheet is given form by pressing it between two rigid dies.

Cold Connections
Hinges, rivets, tabs and other non-heat methods used to connect metals. Cold connections are useful to maintain patinas or other decorative surfaces which would be destroyed by flame.

Lapidary
Cut your own stones! In this workshop, we will cut, shape and polish cabachon stones.