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The Jeweler's Studio Handbook: Traditional and Contemporary Techniques for Working with Metal and Mixed Media Materials |  | Author: Brandon Holschuh
Publisher: Quarry Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 41301
Media: Paperback
Pages: 176
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 8.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 1592534856
Dewey Decimal Number: 739.27
EAN: 9781592534852
ASIN: 1592534856
Publication Date: February 1, 2009
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Product Description
- Invites you into the world of the home jewelry artist, from workbench to gallery
- Teaches fundamental jewelry-making techniques -- hammering, soldering, riveting, and more -- in full-color photographs
- Illustrates the steps for crafting twenty beautiful pieces of metalwork jewelry, including rings, bracelets, earrings, and pendants
- Features gallery-quality jewelry from dozens of contributing artists
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 Somewhat Disappointing September 1, 2010
OnceATexan (South Texas)
I knew I was in trouble when I read the forward. Sometimes folks try to be so esoteric and artsy they forget to be practical. To be fair, the author didn't write the forward, but this was just not the book I expected. This book is for the independently wealthy who can build their own studio and furnish it with every imaginable (and expensive) tool.
Many of the how-to pictures were too small. In the section on sawing, I had absolutely no idea what I was looking at.
On a completely different subject, the binding of the book was not good--the type that is too tight for the book to stay open; if you force it open, the binding 'breaks'.
Jewelry styles too eclectic for me to want to produce July 6, 2010
MB
The pictures in the book are many, but not good enough to see the detail in them sometimes. i.e. camera angle or hands blocking view. Not a beginners book but a good overall general review for all types of jewelry making.
Good reference book for your studio/workshop May 17, 2010
TSCurios (San Diego, CA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I collect a lot of jewelry books and this was a great addition to my library. Unfortunately, I don't have a large living area so my "workshop" is confined to a little corner of my living room. Although the information on organizing a studio was fantastic, it wasn't too relevant to my situation.
I did get the book because I liked a lot of the jewelry making ideas. Although they are more beginning to semi-intermediate projects, I don't look so much at the finished project, as the different ideas you can take from various parts of projects. I am an advanced jewelry maker, but often times, I need some inspiration on different takes on earrings, necklaces and bezels. This is a great book to get you going again.
 The Jeweler's Studio Handbook April 24, 2010
B. Parker (Florida)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a very informative book regarding working with sterling silver and mixed media. Great book for understanding the tools needed to get started with working with metal and torches. Gave great tips on how to use the tools. Also projects explained in very good detail. Looking forward to doing some of these projects. Would recommend this book for someone interested in starting to do soldering and working with metal and mixed media projects.
 Great content, but pages glued in out of sequence March 15, 2010
Thomas Woodworth (USA)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a clearly written, beautifully produced, extremely helpful introduction to basic jewelry metalsmithing. It renders accessible many techniques initially intimidating to the beginner like myself, and does so better than many other books I've evaluated. The photo work is excellent, the step-by-step projects well selected and inspiring. More than adequate to give me the info and the confidence necessary to take on all sorts of new techniques and launch myself into a new hobby.
However, the book is physically assembled incorrectly -- the sheets after page 55 or so are glued out-of-sequence, creating a jumbled mess! So it is an inconvenient read at best, with all the flipping around required to track down the correct next page. And I'll be darned if I can find pages 72-73 anywhere in there.
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