Things You'll Learn From This Series:

• Introduction to Air chasing, T-fold and making a fold formed flower

• How to create organic shapes like leaves and pods

• Designing beautiful fold formed pod earrings

• Different design uses for fold forming leaves

• When you can incorporate enameling with your fold forming

• Learn a great men’s design

• Create spontaneous designs in copper and other metals

• See Kim's favorite Fold Forming Folds

• Why Kim recommends the tools she uses and how they help with this technique

• Learn about Kim’s “Cootie Kisser” fold

• Kim’s outlook on “perfection” in your jewelry designs

• Learn how to make finished projects from simple to more complex with stones

• How to make your finished piece look professional

Tools You'll Learn From This Series:

• Discover New Tools that make completing Fold Forming projects easier than ever before

• Using Wrap & Tap pliers to make a bail

• Kim explains how her favorite rotary tool will change your finished jewelry forever

• Forming ear wires with Wrap & Tap pliers

• Finishing up with a wire rounder

• Find out about a great new hammering tool Kim uses that adds a lot of interest to your air chasing, (Whaley Hammer) as well as being great fun to use

• Learning the correct way to use your Bench Top Polisher and shield

• Using fine stone wheel on bench lathe

• Using the medium abrasive wheel on the Bench Top Polisher

• Finishing edges with a Bench Top Polisher

• Tips on using 3M wheels on a Bench Top Polisher

• Learn about the different levels of polishing wheels and when to use each one

• Advantages to hand held polishing tools

• When a tumbler is a better option for finishing your project

• Learn how to use a spring loaded punch to add detail to your design

• Special recommendations on tools for opening folds

• Kim’s trick for using an anvil for opening folds

• Shares great uses for mat work surface

• Which polishing disks to use for amount of metal removal

• What is pumice and why it is used with torching and annealing

• The advantages to annealing in a rotating pumice pan

• New Bezel Cutting Shears

• Special tips for your rawhide hammers

• What is the advantage of using the different types of hammers

• What technique to use with each hammer for different outcomes

• Correct hammering techniques

• Learn how to hold your hammers for best results without physical stress

• Information on different types of hammers and how to prep your soft blow hammer

• Using different hammers to add texture

• Why you use the different hammers for different steps in the process

• Which hammer to use for soft blow and confirming

• How to add more design using round nose pliers

• Using your pliers to help form your pieces

• Torch safety tips and tools to keep you safe

• Using her pumice pan for soldering odd shaped items

• Different tools that give different textures for Air Chasing

• Find out how having control of your texturing tool can be a great asset to your design

Free Supply Kit Includes:

• POD
  2 Pieces 1 x 3 24 Gauge Copper Sheet
  Sterling Silver wire for Ear Wires 20 gauge 4 inches (2 inch each)

• LEAF
  1 x 3 24 Gauge Copper Sheet
  Fine Silver Bezel Cup with matching Cabochon

• SCARF TIE
  6 x 1 24 Gauge Copper Sheet

• AIR CHASING
  2 x 3 24 Gauge Copper Sheet
  12 Inch 12 Gauge Square Copper Wire

• T-FOLD
  4 x 2 24 Gauge Copper Sheet

• FLOWER
  3 x 3 24 Gauge Copper Sheet

Techniques You'll Learn From This Series:

• Discover New Tools that make completing Fold Forming projects easier than ever before

• Difference between folding and confirming the folds

• Why do you avoid corners when cutting shapes

• Best position for hammering

• What you need to do before you open any fold

• How to open difficult folds without damaging your project

• When to pickle or not to pickle

• Options for different pickling solutions

• When to use a vise to help with folding

• What is “upsetting” the edge and why you do it

• Learn how to make your metal stretch evenly

• Learn the steps to complete a project with many complex folds

• Learn the difference between an outside and inside fold

• Working unforeseen situations into your design as unique element

• How to avoid “kinks” in your fold forming pieces

• Tips for using square wire in your projects

• Learn how and when and why Kim uses Liver of Sulphur for Fold Forming

• When to hammer on cut or folded edges for different results

• Learn a safer way to open folds

• What is a safety zone and why it is important

• What causes pleats and wrinkling

• Using your rotary wheel to do final smoothing on bail ends.

• Putting finishing touches on your design to hide seams and connections

• Using texture to incorporate inadvertent marks

• Learning to make “frogs' skin” by using spring punch and black mat

• What metal to use and why

• What is annealing and why it is important in simple to understand terms

• What part heat plays in the annealing process

• When do you and don’t you need to anneal

• How annealing helps with metal movement

• How annealing is like a “library”

• How to tell when to stop the annealing process

• When do you anneal both sides of a project

• What torch options to choose from when annealing

• How to use a kiln to anneal

• How to recognize your copper is at the right temperature for being annealed

• How to anneal a large piece of copper

• What you need to know about the torch flame and get the best out of it for annealing

• Quenching after torching

• Why to dry after quenching

• Learn how to correctly quench different types of metal

• When to anneal before getting started

• When do you need to anneal again

• How to tell if you are annealing too long

• Shares the differences between annealing and fold forming with copper and silver

• How to anneal long or large pieces of copper

• What you could use an old tree stump for

• What size pieces you can make

• Different ways to make you copper look like new after fold forming process

• What causes changes in the copper color and how to keep or remove

• How to get more movement when working the folds

• How the size of metal impacts your movement you can get

• How to get curves not just extend length of metal

• Where to start hammering

• How to tell where you need more work for movement

• How to make a circle from a rectangle

• Find out what happens when you open a folded circle

• What gauge metals to use and how it changes with the process

• How a brass brush can help finish off your copper pieces

• What is burnishing and what it does to your copper

• What is a line fold and how do you use them

• What a loose fold is and what technique uses this fold

• Using fine silver bezel cups with cabochon stone

• Putting solder to very small bezel cup without melting the cup

• Options to solder bails closed or not

• Kim shares the advantages to using silver solder even on copper projects

• Learn how to solder square wire to flat sheet

• Kim share how to adding ear wires with pick soldering method and why

• Kim shares a simple household item that makes bezel setting simple and beautiful