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Description
The ultimate guide to core jewellery-making techniques, packed with unique (and money-saving) tips.
This book gives you an overview of core jewellery-making techniques and helps you to achieve the same results as traditional methods with easier and cheaper alternative solutions.
Each chapter is packed with unique ideas on how you can make tasks simpler, quicker or less expensive, and produce beautiful pieces. There are instructions for adapting and making your own problem-solving tools and jigs from everyday items, and tips on identifying potential pitfalls in a project and avoiding costly mistakes.
Practical and in a step-by-step format, this book includes over 50 fully illustrated projects and detailed explanations of tools and working techniques.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Tools for the jewellery maker
2. Basic techniques
3. The making of simple specialised tools
4. Punch and die
5. Alternative methods of soldering
6. Wire scroll work
7. The doming block
8. Applications of the screw
9. The removable spindle tool
10. Findings
Ring-sizing table
Wire-sizing table
Glossary
Index
Product details
| Published | 07 Jan 2020 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 144 |
| ISBN | 9781789940213 |
| Imprint | Herbert Press |
| Illustrations | 160+ colour images |
| Dimensions | 276 x 219 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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