Abingdon Silver Group

There is just one space available on the course.  Please contact John Huddleston if you are interested or want to go on a waiting list for this or next year’s course.

Our last session on the 20-21 season is on 21 July.  We will be restarting on 15 September – more details to follow.  (All subject to Covid of course!)

Unfortunately, we will have to wait until stage 3 of the easing of lockdown before we can restart.  This means 19 May is the earliest date according to the current Government guidelines.

Regretably, we have to close from 11 November to 2 December.  Hopefully we’ll be back on 9th December.  Watch this space! However , we can’t welcome new members or visitors until spacing restrictions are removed. 

Things will be different in the way that we work because of the need to socially distance, but we are actively planning to start again on 16 September. However, we will not be having an

Now to become a regular feature during lockdown, we’re taken our much-loved 8pm tea break into the aether and held a Zoom meeting instead.  There were 10 of us at some point – Grant, Robert,

Some of you will be continuing to do silversmithing at home if you have tools and materials. I am lucky enough to have a workbench in our spare room so am continuing with projects. With

Having decided to cancel our planned sessions in the light of Government guidance, we were told that John Mason school has cancelled all bookings anyway at least until 3 April.   Take care and act

John gave a demonstration of how to cast using cuttlefish bones on 19 February 2020. The images are here.

John Huddleston has just given a demonstration on how to delft clay cast. There is a slide sequence here.  In February, John will do a similar demonstration of cuttlefish casting.