In every field the top artisans have their favorite ways of solving common problems. Making a piece of fine jewelry is no exception. The work is intricate, but accomplished jewelers have a variety of techniques, special tools and shortcuts that are proven to save time and improve the quality of your work.This book is written as a resource for jewelers with skill levels from beginner through advanced. The bench tips come from Brad Smith's 17 years of experience in the jewelry industry, including a decade teaching hundreds of students. 101 tips are detailed and illustrated with closeup pictures as ready solutions for common problems at the bench. They include over 20 ways to save time when soldering and polishing, 8 common hazards to avoid, many ways to cut costs, 10 tips to improve stone setting skills, and the "Must-Have" tools for increasing productivity at the bench.

Bench Tips for Jewelry Making: 101 Useful Tips from Brad Smith (Smart Solutions For Jewelry Making Problems)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Smith, Bradford M.

Crafts & Hobbies

Whimsey Wylde

Some jewelry making skills require considerable time and practice to master, but others are quite the opposite. They can be learned quickly, produce beautiful results, and are just plain fun to do. A prime example is broom casting. It can be mastered in a couple hours to produce intriguing geometries that spark the imagination and challenge your creative mind, just begging to be designed into finished jewelry.Discover the rush of pouring molten silver into a common broom to get marvelous icicle-like shapes that make elegant pendants and earrings. Learn the proper use of the equipment, how to modify the irregular shapes for your designs, and ideas for fabricating jewelry from the pieces. Also included are suggestions for safety, tips on cleaning and polishing the deep textures, how to make some of your own tools, and examples of finished jewelry.

Broom Casting for Creative Jewelry and Metal Work (Smart Solutions For Jewelry Making Problems)

Common jewelry tools and techniques can be used to make customized stamping and texturing tools that add visual interest to jewelry designs or leather work. Many artists are reluctant to work with steel, but there are few differences as compared to copper or silver. Once learned, unique stamps or texturing tools can be created for a special application, to accent your work in a unique way, or to brand your pieces with a stamp that others cannot purchase."Making Design Stamps For Jewelry" presents the step-by-step process of selecting best steels, carving the design, hardening the steel, and tempering the completed stamp to ensure a long service life. It describes the tools to use, gives detailed examples for making several design stamps, includes sources for purchasing tool steel, describes useful shop equipment, and offers tips for saving time and achieving better quality.

Making Design Stamps for Jewelry (Smart Solutions For Jewelry Making Problems)

Flexible shaft and hand-held motor tools are a tremendous help to those who make jewelry, improving both the productivity and the quality of work. But with such a bewildering array of different tool bits to choose from, and new ones coming out every year, it's difficult to figure out which is the best bit to use for a particular task. This book examines the wide range of tool bits available and discusses the merits of each. Discover the best drill bits to use, the three most useful cutting burs, six different types of sanding bits, five ways to polish your work with the Foredom® or Dremel®, and five bits that can be used to add texture to your jewelry pieces.In each category, Brad Smith shares his experience on which tool bits save the most time, bench tips for getting the best results, and cautions for safe use.

Accessories for the Foredom and Dremel for Jewelry (Smart Solutions For Jewelry Making Problems)

Antiques & Collectibles

This second volume of Bench Tips is written as a resource for jewelers with skill levels from beginner through advanced. In every field, top artisans have favorite ways of solving common problems. Making a piece of jewelry is no exception. Learn in this book how to create shortcuts and special tools to help save time and increase the quality of the work. These tips are from the author's extensive teaching and shop experience and will help you get the most out of your tools, keep costs under control, and avoid common hazards.

More Bench Tips for Jewelry Making: Proven Ways to Save Time and Improve Quality (Smart Solutions For Jewelry Making Problems)

In The Reluctant Farmer of Whimsey Hill, opposites attract; for better or for worse. That is what troubles animal-phobic, robotics engineer Smith who just got married. He learns that his bride’s dream is to have a farm where there are lots of animals and she can rescue ex-race horses to retrain and find them new homes. But according to a Meyers-Briggs Personality Test that they took for fun, their marriage is doomed. There is only one problem: the newlyweds took the test after the wedding. Whether Smith is chasing a cow named Pork Chop through the woods with a rope, getting locked in a tack room by the family pony, being snubbed by his wife’s dog, or unsuccessfully trying to modernize their barn using the latest technology, the odds are stacked against him. It seems like everything with four legs is out to get him. Will the animals win, forcing Smith to admit defeat, or will he fight to keep his family and the farm together? Enjoy the true, warm, and frequently hilarious stories of Smith’s journey along the bumpy road from his urban robotics lab to a new life on a rural Virginia farm.

The Reluctant Farmer of Whimsey Hill: Library Edition

Raven, Lynn

Smith, Nancy Raven

Pets & Animal Care

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

24 Easy Metal Textures: With No Rolling Mill Required (Smart Solutions For Jewelry Making Problems)

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