In one of the high schools that I went to I took a jewelry class. It was full on working with metals to create pieces of jewelry, you could even make a ring out of wax and send it out to be encases in gold or silver. The metal that the school had on hand though was steel, copper, aluminum, the standard cheaper metals, along with strips and sheets of silver. Ever since I left that school I wanted to get back into jewelry making. I was thinking about buying some perforated metal or something and seeing how much the tools I would need would cost me. I know I would need a wooden mallot, a blow torch, a ball peen hammer, and a special kind of saw. I think I could get back into it fairly easy, it would just be the price of everything that would be hard.
I know that I could get a lot of the metal supplies from Petro Wire & Steel, they seem to have good pricing on the stuff I would need. The thing that I love about their site is that it is very easy to navigate, there’s no guess work for anything. I just need to select a metal type, like wire cloth or bar grating and then select what I want. It is very clean and they try to organize things very well and it shows. A lot of the other sites I have looked at are disorganized. If and when I do get back into the jewelry making then I will go there and pick up the metals that I would need, even if they would just be for practice.