The Jewelry Maker's Field Guide - Tools and Essential Techniques

The Jewelry Maker's Field Guide: Tools and Essential Techniques



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English | 2013 | ISBN: 1596689765 | 168 pages | EPUB | 10.5 MB

Discover a thorough reference guide to metalworking tools and techniques with multiple s, tutorials, cross-references, and supportive skill-building exercises and projects. Helen I. Driggs, senior editor for Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist , brings her down-to-earth approach and strong metalworking knowledge base to this overview of basic and not-so-basic metalworking techniques.

The Jewelry Maker's Field Guide walks you through the variety of metalworking tools available and offers guidance on setting up a studio, buying and organizing supplies, and determining what tools to buy and when. Organizing tools by basic functions, Helen offers a solid and logical overview of metalworking techniques and teaches sets of related skills, showing how different tools can sometimes achieve the same end. Each chapter includes stepped s and applied techniques for using particular tools. The book culminates in projects that combine a variety of techniques and allow the reader to further apply and practice their metalworking skills.