About us
Independently owned and operated since 1998, you can feel confident in choosing Nechamkin Silver Studios to cherish and restore your valued silver pieces, create timeless and modern original silver pieces, deliver the high-quality chasing tools you need to create your own works of art, or teach you new techniques to advance your craft.
Traditional silversmith Liza Nechamkin Glasser has earned a reputation world-wide for the highest quality craftsmanship, providing local to national and international clients with a full range of rare silversmithing services. Her highly satisfied clients come from a wide array of companies and industries including:
- Religious institutions
- Country clubs
- Baltusrol Golf Club
- PGA
- Hollowware manufacturers
- High-end trophy companies
- Major league trophies
- Jewelry stores
- Antique dealers
- Collectors
- Families with heirlooms
Clients have sought out her honest advice and expertise from as far away as France, Israel, Egypt and Australia. View a list of our repair and restoration services.
Because she is a sole proprietor, clients can feel at ease and confident that their silver piece is being handled by an experienced silversmith, who will restore the beauty of their prized possessions as well as deliver inspired masterpiece commissions.
Liza is multi-talented…teaching, lecturing, and exhibiting her chased works nationally. As a highly skilled and accomplished chaser, she specializes in the creation of custom silver pieces that are rich with highly ornamental chasing and repousse designs. In fact, images of her acclaimed work are included in the book, “Chasing and Repousse’ Methods Ancient and Modern,” by Nancy Megan Corwin.
She also is the distinguished creator of Nechamkin Chasing Tools™. Fashioned after antique tools dating back to the 1880s, Liza narrowed down a massive assortment of tools to basic sets of most frequently used tools. Her own branded Nechamkin Chasing Tools are based on these classic designs, that not only feel good in your hand, but also perform with ease precision.
Watch Liza’s YouTube video highlighting her surprising start to manufacturing Nechamkin Chasing Tools.
Liza Nechamkin Glasser
Liza Nechamkin began her career as a creative craftsman in high school, starting with making jewelry, drawing, painting, ceramics, weaving and painting fabric. While at the Rochester Institute of Technology, School for American Crafts, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts, she discovered her true passion for metal smithing, exploring all techniques and objects from rings and pendants to hollowware and flatware.
“As far back as I can tell, I always had a passion for making things,” Liza detailed. “While in school, one course focused on metal work…exploring rings, hollowware, flatware, and more… and I knew instantly, ‘This is what I wanted to do.’ I also loved toolmaking, making my own while school and knew I always wanted my own business.”
Immediately upon graduating, Liza went to work for Tiffany and Co.® for 13 years as one of the top three most highly skilled Silversmith/Chasers in the hollowware and trophy shop. Here, she mastered the fine art of metal restoration, inspiring other designers to talking about chasing, making an impact on design techniques during her time with them. During this time, she also developed her silver restoration business and started instructional chasing and jewelry workshops.
“I really enjoy the engineering part of silver repair. How it is put together. How I can pull it apart and repair it. It’s a rare and unique skill that I possess.”
Liza resigned her position with Tiffany and Co. ® in 2008 to manage Nechamkin Silver Studios full time and pursue the development and marketing of her branded Nechamkin Chasing Tools.
Today, Liza’s work reflects her deep love for what she does. She upholds the silversmith tradition, utilizing her extensive knowledge to fix silver jewelry, memorabilia, silver plating, fine silver hollowware and much more by hand. With 30+ years of experience, she is distinguished as a foremost expert in the silversmithing community, a master in an industry where traditional silversmiths are disappearing and only a few of her kind remain.
Manufacturer of Nechamkin Chasing Tools: Ikohe, Inc.
Certified Nechamkin Chasing Tools Dealer: Otto Frei
Liza Nechamkin – Owner/Operator Nechamkin Silver Studios
Recommended by:
- Baltusrol Golf Club
- George Cloyed, Master Silversmith of Cloyed Silversmiths
- Nancy Megan Corwin, Professional Chaser, Educator and Author of Chasing and Repousse, Methods Ancient and Modern
- Juan Carlos Caballero-Perez, Master Goldsmith & Sculptor, Professor, Metals Department, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Kevin Potter, Tool Maker/Owner, Potter USA