2025 Prototype to Production with Jayne Redman 5- days April 4,5,6,7,8, Diane Weimer Studio Cost- $806 Kit- $155

2025 Prototype to Production with Jayne Redman - 5- days  April 4,5,6,7,8,  TIME 9-4 at Diane Weimer's studio in Long Beach,CA. Cost $806  Kit-$155

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Take your designs from flat to three dimensional with this in-depth workshop from Jayne Redman. Learn the innovative design and assembly concepts that Jayne has developed over 40 plus years of metalsmithing. Jayne will teach you the principles behind centrally radiating forms, properly nested forms, spacing for slotted forms, faux hinge assembly, and tab construction. She will show you how she uses her computer as a design tool and how to duplicate the same steps manually. Learn how to make blanking (pancake) dies to quickly cut out the shapes you develop in class and get lost in the process of experimenting with forming and assembly. Speed up your production or incorporate identical shapes in one-of-a-kind pieces. 

Techniques taught:

• Developing flat patterns used for three dimensional forms

• Prototyping with heavy aluminum foil

• Using your computer as a design tool or creating the same design manually. 

• Layout for a correctly designed blanking die

• How to correctly use a saw frame and choosing saw blades for sawing tool steel

• How to determine rotational angle of your Bench Pin or WorkRing relative to thickness of tool steel and saw blade


• How to saw a blanking die out of tool steel

• How to use a hydraulic press or bench vise to blank out metal with blanking dies

• Tips and tricks using flex shaft accessories

• How to make your own forming tools

Jayne Redman - Artist Statement and Biography

 Nature provides an endless reference for imagination and invention. The linear quality of stems and the fullness of flower buds inspire my jewelry. I enjoy integrating mechanics with design, allowing each piece to function in a visually intriguing way. I work with multiples of the same shape engineering them to fit precisely giving an abstract impression of their botanical origin. Many years of metalsmithing have taught me the power of simplicity. My forms begin as flat metal shapes and arrive as small sculptures. Their complexity is in their conception as curving planes of origami.

 Jayne Redman, a Maine native, earned her B.F.A. in Jewelry and Silversmithing from the Maine College of Art in 1977. She began her jewelry career in New York as a design and production assistant in the fashion jewelry industry. She started her own company, Jayne Redman Jewelry, in 1982 and exhibited her jewelry nationally at Fine Craft Shows. Jayne is the recipient of numerous jewelry design awards including the Niche Awards for Silver Jewelry, Lapidary Journal’s Jewelry Arts Award and was a nominee for the Saul Bell Awards.

 Jayne has been featured in articles for Crafts Report, AJM/MJSA Journal, Lapidary Journal, Professional Jeweler, Niche, and Ornament magazines. Examples of her work illustrate the books Art Jewelry Today by Donna Z. Meilach, Making Metal Beads by Pauline Warg, 500 Earrings and 20th Century Jewelry - The Best of the 500 Series by Lark Books. She was a contributor to the books Profiting by Design by Marlene Richey, Celebrating 70 by Karen Lorene, and Linking our Lineage: Twelve Techniques from Twelve Master Smiths edited by Victoria Lansford. She contributed the chapter, The Keum-boo Process: Step by Step, to the book Jewelry Metals edited by James Binnion for the MJSA Press.

 After many years of designing and making jewelry for Fine Craft stores and Jewelry Galleries, Jayne now focuses on developing her line of jewelry tools and teaching her innovative engineering and production techniques at Jewelry Schools and Guilds around the country and at her studio in Southern Maine.