Ready to add something totally different and beautiful to your woodturnings? This class is for you! This week, students already familiar with woodturning will explore making turned containers with metal clay lids. What is metal clay? It is an amazing clay medium made with metal powders mixed with a binder. Gold, silver, bronze, stainless steel, brass and copper are all available in a metal clay medium. It can be rolled, molded, carved, shaped, and stamped with a wide variety of tools or your bare hands. When fired in a kiln or by handheld torch, the binder burns away and what remains is the solid metal. In this class students will use copper & silver clay. Participants will learn how to roll out clay in an even thickness and form, shape, stamp and fire metal clay. We will then turn boxes for the silver and copper pieces to adorn. All tools for working with the metal clay will be provided, and students will kiln fire and torch fire their pieces in class. Students should expect to make three to four completed containers. This will be a fast-paced week with much information covered in this class so familiarity with woodturning and the use and sharpening of turning tools will be very helpful. The material fee will include all the clay and other consumable materials used for the projects made during the week.