The Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Metal Jewelry
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Making Metal Jewelry

Author: Nancy Lee

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-08-06

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1615643702

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Packed with step-by-step instructions and color photos, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Making Metal Jewelry explains essential techniques — soldering, smithing, stamping, hammering, casting, riveting, and wiring. Readers will learn how to work with easily obtainable but beautiful metals while making a dozen original projects — along the way, discovering alternate methods, ways to correct mistakes, safety tips, online video instruction, and more.

Soldering Made Simple
Soldering Made Simple

Author: Joe Silvera

Publisher: Kalmbach Books

Published: 2012-08-29

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 1627000240

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This book is the complete guide to simple soldering. Soldering Made Simple takes all the mystery and fear out of soldering so that amateur jewelry makers — even those who have never held a torch — feel empowered and confident. Friendly and thorough instructional text and step-by-step photos help readers build skills gradually, which they can then employ with the included projects. Joe Silvera presents soldering techniques that use a simple setup, a handheld butane torch that is safe and easy to operate, and a few other supplies.

Metalsmithing Made Easy
Metalsmithing Made Easy

Author: Kate Richbourg

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2016-08-15

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1632503492

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Following the success of her first book, Simple Soldering, Kate Ferrant Richbourg walks kitchen table metalsmiths through the basics and into new territory! In addition to teaching the essentials of soldering, Metalsmithing Made Easy demystifies rotary tools and introduces different kinds of hotter small-space torches. In her signature friendly, easy-to-follow style, Kate lays out a lesson plan of techniques to help readers gain familiarity with soldering tools and methods. In the chapter "The Field Guide to the Rotary Tool" you will learn how to quickly and efficiently, with a simple handheld tool and a few select bits, add professional-quality surface effects and finishing to your jewelry designs. A practice sampler of metal tiles, to be worked on step by step, helps to hone skills in surface manipulation, stone setting, cold connections, and more. Once these skills are mastered in the sampler, you can undertake any (or all) of fifteen gorgeous projects included, such as a locket, bail with set stone, prong-set pendant, and much more.

Metalworking 101 for Beaders
Metalworking 101 for Beaders

Author: Candie Cooper

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9781600593321

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A guide to creating more than 30 jewelry projects with one-of-a-kind findings to showcase your beadwork.

Just Hit It
Just Hit It

Author: Frank William Thomas

Publisher: Frankly Golf

Published: 2008-06

Total Pages: 93

ISBN-13: 0615181090

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Pure Silver Metal Clay Beads
Pure Silver Metal Clay Beads

Author: Linda Kaye-Moses

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA

Published: 2011-01-04

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1616732903

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Precious metal clay (PMC) is an innovative material that combines the workability of clay with the beautiful finish and durability of precious metals. The material is easy to manipulate and shape by hand to make beads for bracelets, necklaces, and other jewelry. This book contains fifteen projects for creating fine silver beads and a design gallery of 25 additional jewelry pieces. Intro chapters include information about tools and techniques. Projects are organized workshop-style, to build skills cumulatively.

Making the Most of Your Flex-shaft
Making the Most of Your Flex-shaft

Author: Karen Christians

Publisher:

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9780971349568

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The flex-shaft is an essential tool for bench work, and jewelers will often have several at hand. But too often those jewelers don't know how to take full advantage of the flex-shaft's capabilities. This book will help to change that. It offers insights and advice on how to choose the proper system and maintain it, as well as which accessories you need to accomplish specific tasks. In addition, it offers "out of the box" ideas gleaned from Ganoksin.com and the pages of AJM Magazine, published by Manufacturing Jewelers & Suppliers of America.

The Long-Drive Bible
The Long-Drive Bible

Author: Sean Fister

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Published: 2008-05-16

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 0470225726

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Sean “The Beast” Fister is the winner of numerous World Long Drive Championships and holds the record for the longest carry in the world finals at a whopping 393 yards. Now Fister has taken all the winning tips and techniques he has learned over the years and organized them in this book so that you too can drive better and more consistently. With Fister’s Ten Commandments of Distance, you’ll bring out the beast in your golf game!

Practical Golf
Practical Golf

Author: John Jacobs

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2023-09-21

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 149308304X

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In Practical Golf, world-renowned teacher John Jacobs presents a simple, sound way to an improved game, no matter the skill level. Distilling his unrivaled knowledge of golf into clear, practical instruction, Jacobs shows how to develop a consistent swing, improve mental attitude, achieve superior results from the rough, cure a slice in five minutes, get greater distance, and much more. For decades, this book has helped golfers lower handicaps and better enjoy the game, making it one of the best ever.