Registration for this schedule starts on 12/01/2025 and ends on 09/30/2026
Participants must be 18 years to 120 years old when the program starts.
FORBIDDEN LAPIDARY: WHAT YOUR MOTHER NEVER TOLD YOU
INSTRUCTOR: JEFF FULKERSON
This is the class you always wanted but didn’t know it! In this class I’ll reveal several shortcuts, new techniques, giving old tools new uses, and totally unrelated tricks that will shoot your lapidary skills to the next level. In this class you will learn to back stones, we’ll explore different dopping techniques, and how to make cabettes (small cabochons for stone on stonework).
You will learn alternative methods to polish soft stones, how to line up & make small dots or round cabochons, cutting earring pairs, how to polish flat cabochons on a lapidary arbor and we will make some odd shaped and sharp cornered cabs including concaved shapes. Finally, we’ll look at making an intarsia cab, the mystery of superglue & silver dust, as well as Un-dopping different dopping techniques.
Students must provide rough stones for the intarsia. I recommend lapis, jaspers, as well as some rough turquoise. Think about what colors you’d like when selecting your rough. Bring more than you think you’ll need. The instructor will have a very limited supply of
rough.
Class Fee: $295
Kit Fee: $35 to cover consumables
Prerequisite: Students must have taken a lapidary class & have a basic knowledge of cab making
Artist Jeff Fulkerson, M.A., has been creating stunning, imaginative jewelry for over 40 years. A contributing artist to Lapidary Journal/Jewelry Artist Magazine, his work has also been featured in Art Jewelry Magazine, Rock & Gem Magazine, the Tucson Show Guide and Step by Step Wire.
Jeff has produced several instructional videos including “Beginning Inlay.” His Silversmithing Video Library offers jewelry artists of all levels the opportunity to learn and improve their skills. Jeff is the inventor of the Steady Stamp™ and the Fast Flare Forming Disks (pat. pend.) for making spinner bangles. He has taught at Bead Fest, Bead & Button Show, Art Retreat in the Desert, Art Unraveled, the San Diego Museum of Man, and several private studios and bead shops across the country.
A self-taught silversmith with a background in construction and design, he counts himself fortunate to have studied with many great Native American artists in the last few years, most notably, Richard Tsosie, Navajo, Jesse Monogya, Hopi/Navajo and Michael Cheatham, Cherokee. “It’s very satisfying to me to help others grow in their gifts and talents.”
Please contact William Holland School of Lapidary Arts if you have any questions.