Sawtooth School Lapidary Cabochons

What it is

Sawtooth School Lapidary Cabochons is a first-party public lapidary workshop program at Sawtooth School for Visual Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Official registration course 5600. Lapidary - Stone Cutting & Polishing - Cabochons! teaches stone selection, trim-saw use, dopping, and grinding/polishing on a cabbing machine, with just four seats so each student has a machine. The Glass studio page states the Glass Studio houses lapidary equipment including CabKing cabbing machines and RayTech faceting machines. One-day 56001 cabochon workshops are also offered. It is a public, fee-based, pre-scheduled art-school course series. It is not a membership gem-club listing by itself and not a retail supply shop.

Who it’s for

Beginners and beyond (ages 14 through adult) in the Winston-Salem / Triad area who want instructor-led cabochon cutting with published member and non-member fees and dated 2026 sections. No experience is required; repeat students are welcome. Materials are included in the multi-week class fee; students keep their creations.

Why it’s listed

This is a first-party lapidary workshop with a printed downtown campus street address, named course numbers, dated 2026 sessions, and on-page dollar prices for members and non-members. It is not a scraped directory card, not a gem-club meeting listing alone, and not a jewelry retail storefront.

• Presenter and venue (registration and Glass studio / footer, checked 2026-10-02): Sawtooth School for Visual Art, 251 N. Spruce St., Winston-Salem, NC 27101; phone 336.723.7395; Glass Studio room 208 on the October 5600 registration detail. Generations Center address (114 W. 30th Street) appears on Glass studio pages for other programs—this listing is for downtown Spruce Street lapidary.
• Multi-week price — course 5600 (registration detail, checked today): Fee $230.00; Member Fee $207.00. Materials included.
• Multi-week schedule samples (registration, checked today): October 7–28, 2026 section status FULL (Wednesday 9:30 AM–12:00 PM EDT on that detail). November 4–December 2, 2026 section status Available at the same $230 / $207 fees (View Schedule link on that detail—confirm live clock times before relying on the October Wednesday morning cadence for November).
• Curriculum (5600 registration description, checked today): cabochon basics; trim saw; dopping; grind/polish on a cabbing machine; oval then freeform; locally sourced and exotic rough; class runs with as few as two students.
• One-day option — course 56001 (registration, checked today): example September 26, 2026 one-day workshop listed Fee $125.00 / Member Fee $112.50 plus Supply fee $20.00; ages 14+. That September date is already past as of this check—use live registration for the next open 56001 date.
• Scholarship note (5600 registration, checked today): Forsyth Gem and Mineral Club Lapidary Arts Scholarship is described on the class page with an online application path.

The fees, times and session dates above are what the official registration details showed on the check date. Sections fill and fees change. Confirm on live Sawtooth registration before treating any figure as fixed.

Official URL

Last checked: 2026-10-02

https://sawtooth.org/

Glass studio (equipment note): https://sawtooth.org/studios/glass/

5600 Lapidary Cabochons — Nov 4–Dec 2, 2026 (Available on check): https://reg121.imperisoft.com/sawtooth/ProgramDetail/3435333939/Registration.aspx

5600 Lapidary Cabochons — Oct 7–28, 2026 (FULL on check): https://reg121.imperisoft.com/sawtooth/ProgramDetail/3435333938/Registration.aspx

Location

Classes meet at Sawtooth School for Visual Art, 251 N. Spruce St., Winston-Salem, NC 27101, Glass Studio room 208 per the October 5600 registration detail. Phone 336.723.7395.

This is a public art-school classroom venue. It is not a gem-club membership application page and not a lapidary retail counter.

Notes

• Category is Workshops. This is a public, pay-per-course lapidary series with printed fees through Sawtooth’s registration system. It is not a Clubs membership society listing and not a Suppliers equipment or rough shop.
• The $230 / $207 multi-week fees are copied from the official 5600 registration details checked on 2026-10-02 and may change. Prefer the live ProgramDetail pages.
• sawtooth.org HTML fetches sometimes return a bot-challenge interstitial (HTTP 202) from some networks; registration.imperisoft.com ProgramDetail pages returned usable class text and fees with a normal browser User-Agent on the check date. Cite the registration URLs that printed fees.
• A still from the first-party-linked lapidary demo video on the 5600 registration page (youtube.com/watch?v=xClD1U3A_TM) is saved as sawtooth-school-lapidary-cabochons.jpg (YouTube hqdefault JPEG). Direct studio stills from sawtooth.org were not retrievable without the site challenge on the check date.
• Not affiliated with Lapidary Plaza.
• No Lapidary Plaza contact, purchase, booking, or publication action was taken.

FAQ

Q: How much is the Sawtooth lapidary cabochon class?
A: Course 5600 registration details (checked 2026-10-02) list $230.00 non-member and $207.00 member for the multi-week Stone Cutting & Polishing — Cabochons class, materials included. Confirm on the live ProgramDetail links above.

Q: When and where does it meet?
A: An Available November 2026 section checked on 2026-10-02 runs November 4–December 2, 2026 at Sawtooth, 251 N. Spruce St., Winston-Salem, NC 27101 (Glass Studio 208 on the October detail). An October 7–28, 2026 section of the same course printed Wednesday 9:30 AM–12:00 PM EDT and was FULL. Use View Schedule on the live November detail for that section’s clock times.

Q: Do I need gem-club membership to register?
A: No. Registration is through Sawtooth School for Visual Art as a public art-school class. Sawtooth membership yields the lower member tuition on the fee line. A Forsyth Gem and Mineral Club scholarship is mentioned on the 5600 page for students who apply.

Q: Is this a gem club or a supply shop?
A: Neither as listed here. This entry is under Workshops. It is a public, fee-based lapidary course series at Sawtooth. For membership gem societies, see Clubs. For equipment and rough, see Suppliers.