One of my favorite things about www.artjewelrymag.com is the Community page, where we can go to check out the cool work that our readers are doing and find out what jewelry-making issues are important to them. I haven't visited the "Show Us Your Work" section in the Forum for a while, and when I saw Fred Zweig's repoussé faces and frog, I was delighted! They have a sense of movement and emotion that makes me want to stop and stare and get to know them better. Lucky for the jewelry-making world at large, Mr. Zweig, who makes his own tools because, he says, "Most of the commercial chasing tools are not suited for this fine work and are expensive," is offering a class in Tucson in March 2008. So, in his class, he'll be letting you in on his secrets for toolmaking as well as for repoussé.

Personally, I'm just glad that he let us see his work. Thanks for sharing, Fred.

And thanks to everyone else on the Forum who posts pictures of what they're working on. It's exciting to see!

—Kristin