From Sheet to Form: Silversmithing Techniques with Oscar Saurin
Published: 11.06.2025
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DEADLINE: 02/09/2025

Refine your silversmithing skills in this three-day hands-on course with award-winning maker Oscar Saurin.
Learn to transform flat metal into sculptural forms through hammering, raising, planishing, and fly press techniques. Ideal for jewellers ready to scale up, this intermediate course will strengthen your soldering, forming, and finishing capabilities. You’ll work on a raised bowl and a form-pressed lid, building control, precision, and confidence. Small group size ensures expert guidance and time for personalised skill development.
Dates: 16 – 18 September 2025, 9.30 am – 4.30 pm.
Price: £499 (6 places available).
About Oscar Saurin
Oscar Saurin is a traditionally trained silversmith with over a decade of professional experience at renowned workshops including Richard Fox and Grant Macdonald. His portfolio spans Formula One trophies, ecclesiastical commissions, and intricate smallwork. Oscar combines expert hand skills—raising, chasing, polishing—with modern applications of CAD, offering a balanced and forward-thinking approach to silversmithing. With a deep respect for technique and a collaborative teaching style, he helps makers expand their abilities and apply precision to larger-scale work.
Dates: 16 – 18 September 2025, 9.30 am – 4.30 pm.
Price: £499 (6 places available).
About Oscar Saurin
Oscar Saurin is a traditionally trained silversmith with over a decade of professional experience at renowned workshops including Richard Fox and Grant Macdonald. His portfolio spans Formula One trophies, ecclesiastical commissions, and intricate smallwork. Oscar combines expert hand skills—raising, chasing, polishing—with modern applications of CAD, offering a balanced and forward-thinking approach to silversmithing. With a deep respect for technique and a collaborative teaching style, he helps makers expand their abilities and apply precision to larger-scale work.
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DEADLINE: 02/09/2025
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