Now available, this is the first of six books on jewelry repair based on Revere's long running series in JCK magazine. Follow fifteen ring repairs ranging from a simple stretching job to installing a spring insert, enlarging a bi-color shank, replacing a platinum half-shank, adding an adjustable ring mechanism, and more. With 143 close up color image, 91 sketches and 125 pages, this book is essential for anyone doing repairs at the bench.

Ring Repair

Alan Revere

Arts & Photography

Otto Frei

Setting Repair is the second installment in Revere s landmark Professional Jewelry Repair Seris. Just as Ring Repair was the first to coer the myriad ways to size adn replace ring shanks, this book is the first to illustrat and explain the repair of settings for gemstones in jewelry. Seventeen step-by-step chapters include repairs in sterling silver, karat golds and platinum. The accessible text, informative photographs and helpful illustrations, Setting Repair provides a wealth of valuable information to benchworkers and jewelers. As an educator to thousands of students all over the world, Alan Revere is adept as communicating the intricacies of jewelry making and repair with time-honored authority.

Setting Repair

Brynmorgen Press

Alan Revere--acclaimed designer, author, and educator--now shares his most valuable bench tips and tricks in 101 Bench Tips for Jewelers. Based on the monthly column in AJM, this book will help any jewelry speed production, improve quality, and raise profits at the bench. Filled with helpful, full-color illustrations, this publication offers tips for all aspects of bench work, from soldering to stone setting, piercing to final polish. Discover how you can modify common bench tools to enhance productivity; how household items such as dental floss and paper clips can become valuable bench aides; and how easy difficult repairs can be with the help of a few tricks. 101 Bench Tips for Jewelers is a resource you'll return to for many years to come.

101 Bench Tips for Jewelers

MJSA Press

When master goldsmith Alan Revere published Professional Goldsmithing in 1991, he brought traditional European trade education to the US for the first time, adapting it for an American audience. The book was a best seller and quickly became a standard text in the field. To mark the 2oth anniversary of this groundbreaking work, Revere and Brynmorgen Press offer a revised and expanded edition that includes new projects, scores of new photos, and a handsome new layout. What hasn t changed is the precise instruction that makes this edition a fitting testament to its predecessor.

Professional Jewelry Making: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Jewelry Techniques

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

This book is intended for beginners, hobbyists, craftspeople, jewelry artists and professional stonesetters. Fifteen setting projects are arranged in ascending complexity, starting with simple bezels and advancing through a variety of prong settings. This is followed by detailed information on preparing a graver including four bead-setting projects and two advanced channel setting projects. Like Revere's companion book, Professional Jewelry Making, this book uses closeup photography and clear descriptions that make even challenging settings available to any committed jeweler.

Professional Stonesetting