This amazing comprehensive guide to the jeweller's art is a goldmine of information - big, beautiful, and full of hundreds of colour photographs. It's simply the most comprehensive sourcebook available, with its enlightening discussion of basic metallurgy (alloying, smelting, annealing and pickling), and professional-quality techniques for cutting, piercing, soldering and making closures for rings. Learn the tricks of the trade for enhancing surfaces; etching, combining metals, creating textures, adding colour, engraving, enamelling and gem setting. Seven magnificently presented projects include a silver repousse pendant, an articulated gold bracelet with clap, a multi loop-in-loop chain, and a square hollow-construction ring to die for.
- ISBN10 1579903045
- ISBN13 9781579903046
- Publish Date 1 August 2006
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 29 October 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Lark Books,U.S.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English