Jewelry / Metal Arts: Classroom Studio
Learning, Demonstrating, Building Community
Regular Studio Hours for Jewelry/Metal Arts
Monday-Friday, 8am-12am
Saturday-Sunday, 8am-10pm
Please contact the Studio Manager directly or email shops@cca.edu with any questions.
The Classroom Studio
Shaklee Building
Oakland Campus
Spring 2022: On-Campus Studio Access
CCA continues to provide access to on-campus studios and shops as permitted to do so by the San Francisco and Alameda Departments of Public Health.
About the Jewelry / Metal Arts: Classroom Studio
The main classroom is equipped with 18 professional jeweler's benches with flex-shafts, a communal soldering area, two drill presses, a bench shear, a rolling mill, an instructional video monitor, an art display case, and various hand tools designed for metal-smithing.
Specializing in These Materials
- Aluminum
- Brass
- Copper
- Karat Golds
- Palladium
- Platinum
- Resin
- Silver
- Steel
- Titanium
- Wax
Tools and Equipment
- Natural gas torches
- Rolling Mill
- Hydraulic press
- Citric acid pickle baths
- Drill presses and flex-shafts
- Step sheer, beverly sheer, straight sheer
- Buffing/polishing lathes
- Orion i200 pulse arc welder
- Puk 5 precision impulse welder
- Small lathe mills
- Formlabs 3, 3D printer
- G-Tec TB-30 natural gas booster
- Casting equipment (kilns, centrifuge, and vacuum caster)
- Wax injector
- Electrical etching bath for non-ferrous metals
- Metal forming/forging hammers, stakes, and anvils
- Band saw (wood or metal)
- Sanders (wet or dry)
- Glass Bead blaster
- Draw bench
- Titan stone cutting lathe
- Gryphon C-40 diamond band saw