OQZO Metalsmith
Jewelry Store
Why pick this one
OQZO Metalsmith offers beginner metalsmith fundamentals, guest-instructor workshops, and open studio access in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
Best for
- Beginners learning jewelry-making fundamentals
- Jewelry artists needing equipped open studio space
- Students seeking stone-setting instruction
- Students interested in specialized guest workshops
- Jewelry makers needing access to studio tools and materials
Look elsewhere if
- Customers seeking primarily ready-made jewelry purchases
- Customers needing emergency jewelry repair or same-day service
Specialties
- Metalsmith fundamentals
- Stone-setting
- Drawing on metal
- Chasing and repousse
- Imagery on silver
- Hollow-form vessels with a hydraulic press
- Form and function engineering for multiples
What makes them different
- Guest workshops featuring instructors including Kai Hill, Deb Karash, Victoria Lansford, Elizabeth Lyne, Jayne Redman, Kimberly Renee’, and Cyd Rowley
- Beginner fundamentals workshop offered with flexible dates
- Open studio access for jewelry artists and OQZO Metalsmith students
- Each workbench is equipped with bench tools for making fine jewelry
- Lynn Occhiuzzo's hand-fabricated watch case, buckle, and band was a 2015 Saul Bell Design Award finalist
- Years in business
- 15
- Serves
- Hillsborough
Distilled from this business's own website.
Contact & Location
- Address
- 1106 Woodgrove Wy, Hillsborough, NC 27278
- Phone
- +19542704493
- Website
- http://www.oqzo-metalsmith.com/oqzo-home.html
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Services
- Beginner jewelry-making classes
- Additional one- and two-day jewelry classes
- Guest instructor workshops
- Open studio access
- Studio tool, metal, and material sales