Jake Janowski gets an opinion about his jewelry piece from Emma Wille of LaGrange Park. Students in a second semester jewelry-making class at Lyons Township High School do a lot of independent work on their projects. | Jon Langham~for Sun-Times Media
Dylan Westerhoff of LaGrange Park uses a fret saw to cut out a pattern on his piece. | Jon Langham~for Sun-Times Media
Tess Kelley of La Grange uses a hammer to flatten a metal wire. | Jon Langham~for Sun-Times Media
Instructor Matt Brod shows some pieces his students created incorporating randomly selected decorative stones. | Jon Langham~for Sun-Times Media
Ingrid Sandoval of La Grange uses a torch to weld some metal pieces together. | Jon Langham~for Sun-Times Media
Jake Janowski of Countryside files his jewelry piece. Students in a second semester jewelry-making class at Lyons Township High School do a lot of independent work on their projects. | Jon Langham~for Sun-Times Media
The intermediate jewelry and metalsmithing class at Lyons Township High School isn’t just for producing a lovely piece of jewelry or metal sculpture. Rather, it’s a test of one’s mettle. Western Springs junior Acadia Floyd admits to a bit of frustration, at times, with materials …