Product Description

Packed with hundreds of colour how-to photographs, images of contemporary work, and time-tested tips - this spectacular guide will become an essential addition to every jeweller's library. All the basics are covered such as: sawing, piercing and soldering metal with advanced skills such as granulation, enameling, stone setting, and simple casting. Every unique project reinforces the techniques - create the stunning Bubbles Brooch by hollow-forming silver, adding pearls, and attaching pin findings. Or, make a handsome lapel pin by cuttlefish-casting 18-carat gold; then set a brilliant sapphire on the textured surface. Each chapter features a substantial gallery of contemporary pieces.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #147079 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 176 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781579905705
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From Booklist
From even a novice's perspective, information on the fashioning of metallic baubles and bangles is crammed into 176 very colorful pages. Certainly, every photograph, illustration, and how-to sequence is valuable--and chock-full of the kind of instructions and tips that make the difference between amateurish pin and designer brooch. Experienced author (Making Metal Jewelry, 2003, Creative Metal Crafts, 2004, among others) and artist Gollberg provides a broad foundation: first, warm-up data on metals, their properties, tools, and equipment; then, a series of chapters on progressively more difficult techniques from filing, carving, and tube riveting to flush stone setting and kum boo (the Korean art of bonding gold foil to another metal). Thirteen projects set the design bar high, as do the gallery pages that follow each chapter. Admittedly, it is a lot to digest at once. Consider supplementing Gollberg's overview with single-topic books on enameling or working with stones. Barbara Jacobs
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Customer Reviews

Wow!
When I buy an "instructional" book, I nearly always find one or two handy tricks which make the book worth it's price. This one is loaded with great tips! Joanna Gollberg is a whiz at the technical aspects of the craft and she's very good at making the information understandable. If I could only have two books in my metalsmithing collection, this would be on the shelf along with Tim McCreight's Fundamentals.

Best in Class
This is really the best beginner-intermediate level jewelry making book that I have seen so far. Whereas most instructional books consist mainly of hideous jewelry designs that they demonstrate how to make, this book is a "survey" (of sorts) of the different techniques, with many examples of truly beautiful jewelry that were made with each technique. Inspiring, yet achievable.

If you are a beginner, or would like to extend your skill set, this is really the best bet for the buck.

Stunning and not for a beginner other than for eye candy factor
This is another one that people will probably love or hate! It is not for beginners in the jewelry arts. I have had a chance to go thru my copy for a couple of weeks. I like it. She does do her usual good job of covering the tools and equipment for the projects and techniques she is covering. The photos are stunning and the I found the book a visual delight. I am not one to claim to enjoy or even understand the conceptual jewelry that one finds in some of the jewelry craft books as projects. Thankfully the project examples are clean of design and the couple that I did do where fun to make. There still is some far out stuff shown from other artists in the gallery's. I own it, I used it and will use it again and again. A keeper!