Do you dabble in jewelry making, but find yourself itching for new ways to express your creativity? Let More Jewelry Making be your guide as you explore fresh techniques for crafting truly one-of-kind handmade designs.
This new techniques book goes beyond the basics that we covered in the first book, bringing you new tutorials for metalwork, glazes and resins, metal clay, and even leather. As usual with this series, all of the tutorials are introductory, offering lots of details, tips, and examples to help you learn the basics of each new skill and start experimenting.
Covered techniques include:
Basic Metal Work
- Piercing and cutting metal
- Bending and shaping metal
- Transferring a design to metal for sawing out
- Filing and sanding
- Texturizing
- Using metal punch stamps
- Coloring and stamping with inks
- Painting metal
- Creating patinas
Cold Connections
- Making and using rivets
- Miniature nuts and bolts
- Using metal tabs
- Stitching with wire
Metal Clay
- Selecting metal clay
- Forming, shaping, and joining
- Attaching findings
- Making settings
- Drying, refining, and firing
- Finishing and embellishing
Adhesives
- Successful gluing
- Setting cabs, glass tiles, and stones
- Adhering images to glass
- Attaching bails
Epoxy and UV Resin
- Resin basics
- Preparing two-part resin
- Colorizing resin
- Applying resin
- Casting resin in a mold
- Embedding and layering
- Curing, refining, and finishing
Jewelry Chain
- Chain types and design considerations
- Cutting and dividing chain
- Connecting and finishing
- Making chain tassels
Leather
- Leather basics
- Dying, cutting, piercing, stamping, and sealing
- Basic hand stitching
- Leather hardware
While most of the book is devoted to technique how-tos, there are also eleven new projects to help you try out your new skills. Plus, the Appendix provides supplier lists, useful reference charts, and more.
This book was a huge undertaking - but we did it! Over 900 photos, most of them macro, and 320 pages of jewelry making . . . this was my biggest and most challenging writing project to date. It's truly exciting to finally see it in print, and I hope you have fun with it!