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What does it take to secure a solid position as a working Jeweler today? We believe it takes a commitment to excellence, a solid foundation of skills, a willingness to continually learn and the skills and talents of excellent craftsmanship.

Where can you learn such skills and develop your talents? That's where New Approach School for Jewelers excels, in helping you to discover and perfect your skills.

Are you new to the industry? Our Bench Comprehensive 5 day workshop is a great starting point. This course is specifically designed for students interested in learning to make and repair jewelry. This class is an ideal way to discover the foundational skills required in making jewelry, as well as familiarizing yourself with the tools and terminology to ensure success in our Intermediate and Advanced classes as you progress. Many students elect to take Bench Comprehensive and Stone Setting Comprehensive as a two-week starter program into making jewelry. Our Bench Jeweler Comprehensive covers torch theory in detail, and our Stone Setting Comprehensive is an in-depth workshop on many popular stone settings. 

We have many fast-paced, intense and information packed classes to help you increase your efficiency, understanding and techniques. Our Graduate Bench Jeweler program is specifically designed to help you learn the art of making and repairing jewelry, as well as advanced stone setting techniques and platinum fabrication. Our Graduate Bench Jeweler program covers an immense scope of material, from foundational bench jeweler skills such as sawing and soldering skillfully to beginning through advanced professional stone setting, introduction to ornamental hand-engraving, techniques for working with sterling, gold, platinum and other materials, designing, constructing and setting your own designs, with fabrication from raw materials to technically challenging and flawless creation of a three stone basket ring in sterling, and again in platinum as you progress through the program.

CORE CLASSES

Bench Jeweler Comprehensive

  • Tuition: $1120
  • Kit Materials Fee: $45 plus tax
  • Required Tools: None, We provide all necessary tools for you to use in class
  • Pre-requisites: None, Open to all levels of experience
  • Hours in Class: 45 hours (40 hours of instruction with daily lunch break)
  • Schedule: 5-day workshop, Monday through Friday, 8:30am to 5:30pm, See class dates offered 

Stone Setting Comprehensive

  • Tuition: $1145
  • Kit Materials Fee: $90 plus tax
  • Required Tools: None, We provide all necessary tools for you to use in class
  • Pre-requisites: None, but many students elect to take Bench Comprehensive and Stone Setting Comprehensive as a two-week Intensive
  • Hours in Class: 45 hours (40 hours of instruction with daily lunch break)
  • Schedule: 5-day workshop, Monday through Friday, 8:30am to 5:30pm, See class dates offered

Advanced Stone Setting

  • Tuition: $1170
  • Kit Materials Fee: $90 plus tax
  • Required Tools: None, We provide all necessary tools for you to use in class
  • Pre-requisites: Stone Setting Comprehensive
  • Hours in Class: 45 hours (40 hours of instruction with daily lunch break)
  • Schedule: 5-day workshop, Monday through Friday, 8:30am to 5:30pm, See class dates offered

Graduate Bench Jeweler Intensive

  • Tuition: $12,200
  • Kit Materials Fee: $1,750 plus tax
  • Enrollment Fee: $50
  • Required Tools: None, We provide all necessary tools for you to use in class
  • Pre-requisites: None, but many students elect to take Bench Comprehensive first
  • Hours in Class: 540 hours (480 hours of instruction with daily lunch break)
  • Schedule: 3-month intensive workshop, Monday through Friday, 8:30am to 5:30pm, See class dates offered

NEW CLASSES

We also offer some contemporary classes with skilled instructors including, Mokumé Patterning and Rings, Wax Carving and Counter Sketching Black and White & Color Rendering, with more to come. If you have any questions about your most successful path, please send us an email or give us a call at 800-529-4763 today. 

Counter Sketching and Color Rendering

  • Tuition: $995
  • Kit Materials Fee: $132 plus tax
  • Required Tools: None, We provide all necessary tools for you to use in class
  • Pre-requisites: None, Open to all levels of experience
  • Hours in Class: 45 hours (40 hours of instruction with daily lunch break)
  • Schedule: 5-day workshop, Monday through Friday, 8:30am to 5:30pm, See class dates offered

Mokume

  • Tuition: $695
  • Kit Materials Fee: $95 plus tax
  • Required Tools: None, We provide all necessary tools for you to use in class
  • Pre-requisites: None, but Beginning Fabrication, Bench Comprehensive or bench experience is suggested
  • Hours in Class: 27 (24 hours of instruction with daily lunch break)
  • Schedule: 3-day workshop, 8:30 to 5:30, See class dates offered

Wax Carving:

  • Tuition: $995
  • Kit Materials Fee: $45 plus tax
  • Required Tools: None, We provide all necessary tools for you to use in class
  • Pre-requisites: None, but Beginning Fabrication, Bench Comprehensive or bench experience is suggested
  • Hours in Class: 45 hours (40 hours of instruction with daily lunch break)
  • Schedule: 5-day workshop, Monday through Friday, 8:30am to 5:30pm, See class dates offered

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Please feel free to send us an email at blewis@newapproachschool.com
or give us a call at 800-529-4763, Mon-Fri, 8:30 to 5:30 Central Time.

 

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Enrollment Policy

Your seat in class is not reserved until we receive your student application and deposit. Deposit will be applied toward the cost of tuition. Remainder of tuition is due the first day of class for all classes except the Graduate Bench Jeweler program, which can be paid in 3 equal installments (Beginning of: Week 1, Week 5 & Week 9 ).

Registration Policy

We make every effort to ensure that our students receive the best experiences possible at New Approach School. Our classes are extremely popular, fill quickly long in advance of start dates. To ensure that spaces are reserved for students who are truly committed to attending the classes they have registered for, we have adopted the following policies:

To register for a class, a deposit is required as listed per class. We accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover or you may pay by check or cash. 

Please be aware that many of our classes fill long before that date, so if you plan to attend, please send in your deposit and application as soon as you register.

If paying by check, please send your deposit check ASAP, and allow at least 7 days for your check to arrive. Your spot is NOT reserved until your check clears. 

We are an independent, private school dedicated to your success and although we truly appreciate the commitment and sacrifice necessary to attend our programs, we do not offer financial aid or grants.

Your deposit will be applied toward the cost of the class you register for.

Additional kit fees and taxes will be added to the remainder of tuition as listed per class. 

Cancellation Policy

For the full cancelation policy of a specific class, please see the Class Registration Form for the class you wish to take. All of these registration forms are made available to view and download at REGISTER NOW

Video & Materials Policy

All materials and coursework, including techniques demonstrated by instructors or staff, may fall under copyrights or licenses held by New Approach School of Jewelry Technology or its affiliates. 

To protect both you and any copyright holders from litigation, we ask that you DO NOT publish, share, copy, display or otherwise upload any provided coursework or any captured video footage through video sharing sites, forums, email, other websites, flyers, books, etc. If you are interested in publishing your video footage, please ask our Communications Department about obtaining permission in writing.

You may make printed copies from appropriate materials for your own educational and training use only, unless otherwise noted in the publication. 

We ask that you respect this policy to ensure a quality education for future students at New Approach School for Jewelers.

Disclosure of Physical Limitations - Minimum Course Requirements

Attendance at the New Approach School of Jewelers involves periods of prolonged sitting while performing very detailed work with and without magnification equipment. Additionally, students are required to attend classes for eight hours a day enduring periods of work and study significant enough to permit him or her to complete the course at a rapid pace. Accordingly, NASJ asks each student to disclose any physical limitations and/or health matters that may impact the student during their period of instruction:

Please disclose any of the following medical conditions:

Vision Problems 

Eye Sight Correctable to 20/20 

Epilepsy 

Black outs or dizzy spells 

Posture or spinal problems 

Please NOTIFY US IN WRITING any other medical conditions that may affect your ability to perform the minimum course requirements.

In addition, NASJ requires all students to have an eye exam prior to the first day of class. It is crucial when discussing your vision with your doctor to emphasize the distance at which you will be working. You need to specify that you will be working 8 inches away from your nose. If you are near-sighted and wear contacts, you need to bring your glasses to school as well. 

New Approach School for Jewelers does not discriminate unlawfully in any of its programs, procedures or practices against any person on the basis of age, citizenship, color, disability, national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other category or classification protected by law. 

The student hereby warrants that he or she has disclosed all medical problems to NASJ that may affect his or her performance at the school, and will disclose any and all medical problems in the future, as they become known. 

General Release and Waiver

Release and Waiver: In consideration of goods and services provided or to be provided by New Approach School of Jewelry Technology, and the school’s president, Marshall B. Lewis, individually and doing business as New Approach School for Jewelers (hereinafter referred to as “the school,”) the undersigned (hereinafter referred to as “the student,”) hereby acknowledging the above consideration to be good and sufficient to support this General Release and Waiver, hereby completely and forever releases and discharges New Approach School of Jewelry Technology’s past, present and future, it’s general and/or limited agents, employees, employers, attorneys, partner, heir, predecessors and successors in interest, and assigns, from any and all past, present or future claims, demands, obligations, actions, causes of action, rights, damages, costs, expenses and compensation of any nature whatsoever, whether based upon tort, contract or any other theory of recovery, and whether for compensatory or punitive damages or claims for attorney’s fees (hereinafter collectively referred to as “the legal remedies,”) which the student now has or may hereafter acquire, on account of, or in any way arising out of the school’s instruction, demonstration or supervision of student in jewelry manufacturing and/or repair and associated business of the school or otherwise out of the school’s provision of an opportunity for student to engage in any facet of the jewelry instruction business of the school. Furthermore, student hereby waives any and all rights and entitlements, directly or indirectly, to pursue any of such legal remedies arising out of such instruction, demonstration or supervision of student in the jewelry business of New Approach School of Jewelry Technology, or out of New Approach School of Jewelry Technology provision of an opportunity for student to engage in any facet of the jewelry business of NASJ. 

General Release and Waiver and Assumption of Risk: The student further acknowledges and agrees that the release and waiver set forth in paragraph I hereof is a general release; that student expressly waives and assumes the risk of any and all claims for money due, compensation or damages which may exist as of this date, but which the student does not presently know or suspect to exist, and which, if known, would materially affect the student’s decision to enter future claims for money due, compensation or damages which may arise or exist in the future; and that the student, while being instructed, shown demonstrations, supervised and/or provided an opportunity to engage in various facets of the jewelry business of the school will be exposed to hand tools and may be exposed to power tools and machinery that is inherently dangerous and that the student expressly waives and assumes the risk of engaging in these activities fully acknowledging that such activities could result in serious bodily injury or even death. 

Persons Bound: This General Release and Waiver and the terms, covenants, conditions, provisions, obligations, rights and benefits hereof, shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of New Approach School of Jewelry Technology, and the student and their respective officers, employees, employers, agents, representatives, successors and assigns.

Full Understanding and Acceptance: The student represents that he or she has read this General Release and Waiver in full, completely understands the terms of the Release and Waiver and voluntarily accepts those terms.