"This practical guide from MJSA Press offers expert insights into all aspects of working with precious and non-precious jewelry metals.
This book explains how to test, buy, sell, and care for jewellery with precious and alternative metals. High-quality colour photographs show how these metals are creatively used in jewellery.
"Comprehensive reference for all techniques used for making gold, silver, bronze, and copper jewelry"-- Provided by publisher.
An ideal introduction, this manual details the craft of making metal jewelry by pairing expert guidance with clear, explicit photographs.
Metalsmithing can be a daunting task, especially to the beginner.
Packed with step-by-step instructions and color photos, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Making Metal Jewelry explains essential techniques — soldering, smithing, stamping, hammering, casting, riveting, and wiring.
Utilizing stringing and wireworking techniques accessible to beginners, this mixed metal jewelry guide also offers boutique-style designs that will captivate the more experienced beader.
This beginner’s guide to metal jewelry making shows how to create exciting wearable art using just 12 simple, inexpensive hand tools—no jewelry torch required!
This is not a project book; rather, it is an approachable, unintimidating workbook that breaks metals processes down into very specific experiments, such as texturing or plastic deformation of metal, with no goal in mind other than to ...
"Make elegant imaginative jewelry by learning easy ways to join metal that don't require a solder or a torch."--From publisher description.
Looking to take your jewelry skills and experience to the next level? With Making Etched Metal Jewelry you will become an alchemist, a magician, a historian, a storyteller.... The rewards of making etched metal jewelry are plenty.