Nothing is more gratifying than receiving a compliment on a piece of handmade jewelry. However many regard making jewelry as being too difficult and tedious. Basic Jewelry Making Techniques shows how, after mastering only a few basic techniques, crafting even the most complicated jewelry pieces becomes an easy task.

Readers will learn to use techniques such as soldering, texturing, and enameling on wood, acrylic, glass, precious stones, and more. Detailed instructions and illustrations accompany each project, and designs are flexible enough to be modified. Professional jeweler, Jinks McGrath explains how to optimize minimal workspace with suggestions for home workshop designs. She also reviews the necessary tools to begin and the larger equipment to buy as skills develop.

* Teaches how to optimize space for effective workshop design at home * Includes instant reference tables for conversion formulae and melting point temperatures * Features projects using silver, wood, acrylic, and more that utilize all modern jewelry-making techniques

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Professional jeweler Jinks McGrath has been running craft workshops and managing a gallery for many years. Preferring to craft jewelry on a commission-only basis, she is passionate about her career, especially designing and making individual items for galleries and exhibitions. Enameling is her specialty. Jinks works out of her home in East Sussex, England and happily divides her time between designing, teaching, and parenting. She is also author of The Rings Book, published by Krause Publications in 2003.

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