El Dorado Casting Lab
A working jewellery casting lab and teaching studio on Bishop Street, and the only place on the island where you can learn the whole chain under one roof — wax carving, metalsmithing, stone setting, enamel and CAD. It is a trade lab first: casting is what the business does, and the classes run on the same benches and equipment, taught by jewellers who work there. Terms are long by Oʻahu standards, mostly eight to ten weeks of one weekly session, which is what it takes to get from carving a wax to wearing a cast ring. A member of the Hawaii Jewelers Association.
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- Workshops & ClassesWEDNESDAYS · 5:45–8:45 PM
Intro & Hybrid CAD for Jewellery
Next: Wed, Sep 9 · 5:45 PM
An eight-week evening course in jewellery CAD at El Dorado Casting Lab on Bishop Street, running Wednesdays from 30 September, 5:45 to 8:45pm. CAD is the half of modern jewellery most Oʻahu classes skip entirely — you model a piece on screen, then it is 3D printed in wax and cast on the lab's own equipment downstairs, which is the whole reason a casting house is the sensible place to learn it. The hybrid format means you are not required in the room every week. It is the only computer-aided jewellery design course we have found on the island.
$475 · $30 off with code CADDISCDetails → - Workshops & ClassesOCT 23
The Perfect Stack: Ring Making Workshop
Fri, Oct 23 · 5:50 PM
A single evening at the bench making a set of stacking rings, at El Dorado Casting Lab downtown on Friday 23 October, 5:50 to 8:30pm. Stacking rings are the sensible first metalsmithing project — several simple bands rather than one ambitious piece, so you repeat the same cuts, solders and finishes three or four times in an evening and actually get better at them. Unlike the lab's eight-week terms this is a one-night commitment, which makes it the easiest way to find out whether metalwork suits you before signing up for a course. The studio does not publish a price for this one.
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