Penn Foster’s Online Jewelry Design and Repair Training consists of courses that will cover fundamental topics such as ring sizing, molding, chain resizing, common jewelry store repairs, and more. Penn Foster Career School provides the equipment you can use for jewelry making, including assorted wires and solders, safety goggles and unlined nitrile gloves, and a two-speed rotary tool with bristle brush accessories.
Penn Foster's Jewelry Design and Repair Program instructs the student in the skills necessary to create, repair, and modify jewelry, including stone setting, sizing, and polishing, in order to work for an established jeweler or start a business of their own.
Create your first piece of jewelry! Practice your skills by training your mind and hands to work together for the basic operations of sawing, filing, drilling, and finishing.
Supplement: Gesswein Catalog Request Form
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Craft earrings to match the pendant you made earlier in Project 1.
Resize two chains to form one necklace and one bracelet.
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Supplement: Gemstone Gallery
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Construct a three-stone prong-set band. Craft a ring band from any type of sterling silver or gold-filled or plumb gold stock. Then, attach three gemstones to the band using several four-prong settings.
Resize two sterling silver bands — one is size 5 and one is size 7 — to size 6.
Supplement: Jewelry Design
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