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The Art of Soldering for Jewellery Makers
The art of soldering - permanently joining metal components with a torch and solder - is seen as a challenge by many crafters. But this book makes it an easy-to-learn technique for creating beautiful jewellery projects. It features clear instructions for jewellers of all levels, from the hobbyist to the experienced maker who is looking to expand their soldering skills.
The Art of Soldering for Jewelry Makers
Offers strategies and techniques for soldering to create jewelry, covering the fundamentals of the craft, essential tools and materials, and safety precautions, and includes fifteen projects with step-by-step instructions.
The Complete Guide to Making Wire Jewellery
Wire is a wonderful material for making jewellery: versatile, forgiving of beginners, and available in a variety of shapes, sizes, and colours. This book shows you how to combine wire with other materials such as crystals, beads, stones, leather, and cords; as well as how to exploit wire's manipulative qualities to wrap, bend, form, twist, weave, knot, and knit.
The Complete Guide to Making Wire Jewelry
A professional jewelry designer and teacher offers design ideas, instruction on the use of jigs, mandrels, and spiral makers, repetitive patterns for jewelry chains and sets, step-by-step guidance for 11 projects, including earrings, bangles, bracelets, necklaces, and much more.
Inspired Wire
Be a live wire at the next party--with stunning wire jewelry * More than twenty beautiful projects * Comprehensive basics section with how-to photos * Earrings, necklaces, and bracelets; all presented in skill-building progression Wire jewelry can look complicated...but "Inspired Wire" makes it easy to create wonderful hand-formed precious metal and gemstone pieces. More than twenty beautiful projects are presented in skill-building progression, from creating basic wire links to forming more complex hand-shaped jewelry. Step-by-step instructions show exactly how to make the Cynthia's striking designs. With sophisticated yet minimalist jewelry projects, clear instructions, and how-to photographs, "Inspired Wire" helps beginners develop their skills and allows intermediate crafters to learn new techniques and gain a better understanding of wirework.
Hot Connections Jewelry
The art of soldering—permanently joining metal components with a torch and solder—can open up a new world of creative possibilities for jewelry makers. In Hot Connections Jewelry, award-winning jewelry designer Jennifer Chin guides you through every step, from choosing a torch to basic techniques like sawing, filing, and riveting, as well as more advanced techniques like creating surface textures, setting stones, and using inlay. With 23 in-depth lessons and 15 stunning projects, as well as inspiring examples from contributing artists, Hot Connections Jewelry is your essential guide to unleashing your creativity and confidence in jewelry making.
Silversmithing for Jewelry Makers
Your expert techniques with a silver lining! A comprehensive guide, Silversmithing for Jewelry Makers details techniques, surface treatments, and innovations specifically designed for all jewelry makers working in silver, and especially focuses on the needs and interests relevant to metal-jewelry artisans. Explore basic skills as well as specialist techniques, including filigree, chasing, annealing, engraving, etching, casting, and much more. Plus, profiles of contemporary practitioners are included in every section, along with galleries illustrating a range of beautifully crafted finished works. The handy resource section also features a how-to for selling jewelry in the contemporary accessories market. Experienced jewelry makers interested in either exploring silver for the first time or taking their silver jewelry to the next level will love this harmonious marriage between expert silversmithing advice and a jewelry artisan sensibility.
Silver Jewellery Making
"...one of the most comprehensive beginner’s guides to jewelry silversmithing available." BOOKLIST 2/1/21 Silver Jewellery Making is a practical beginners' guide to making silver jewelry, with step-by-step projects guiding the reader through seven projects. The projects are designed to help the reader gain skills and techniques and eventually progress to making their own designs. The seven tried-and-tested projects have been developed by Janet over forty years of teaching and have been honed to develop readers' skills in a practical, doable order. The emphasis is on teaching good practice and acquiring the basic techniques and skills to give the reader a solid basis for developing their jewelry-making capabilities. Tools will be introduced for each individual project, and their uses and correct handling explained. Troubleshooting tips explain how to overcome common problems that may arise. At the conclusion of each project, there will be examples of how the skills gained can be used to make other items. The book is for those who wish to start jewelry making either on their own or as a supplement to beginners' classes.
Making Wire Jewellery
Precious metal wire is a versatile material that can be used to great advantage in jewellery design. This book focuses on using soldering techniques to confidently construct wearable wire jewellery designs. It incorporates fundamental skills such as cutting, filing, annealing and soldering, and encourages the maker to master these basic techniques, so they can create individual articles of wire jewellery using their own inspiration and designs. There are suggestions on how to approach the design process through sketching, model making and creating test pieces, and a comprehensive list of tools and equipment needed for working with wire. Also included are illustrated step-by-step instructions for learning basic wire working processes, such as drawing, twisting, hammering and soldering wire, and practical advice for constructing more complicated pieces of jewellery containing structural forms. With further instruction for making chain, applying surface finishes and adding decorative elements to individual designs, this will be of great interest to all jewellers, and is superbly illustrated with 226 colour photographs.
Wax Carving for Jewellers
Wax carving is like sculpture for jewellery and allows enormous creativity, as so many different forms can be made. This practical guide introduces the techniques to this age-old method through a series of guided exercises and projects, and demonstrates how exciting it can be. Drawing on the experience of two master wax-carvers, it also gives invaluable advice on the finish of your cast pieces and how to reproduce them. With over 400 colour photos, it give advice on setting up for wax carving, tools, tool-making and materials. There are exercises that introduce the beginner to using wax and then build ideas and confidence to try more complex designs. Included are advanced techniques that show how to use stones in a carving and how to add texture and surface detail. Finally, finished examples demonstrate the potential, excitement and versality of the method.
