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McGrath, Jinks

The Complete Jewelry Making Course: Principles, Practice and Techniques: A Beginner's Course for Aspiring Jewelry Makers

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The comprehensive guide to the craft of jewelry making!Craft your path to becoming a jewelry artisan with The Complete Jewelry Making Course: Principles, Practice and Techniques: A Beginner's Course for Aspiring Jewelry Makers. This must-have art book covers every step of the jewelry making process, from creating original design concepts to making professionally finished pieces of jewelry. Author Jinks McGrath lists all required tools and equipment, explains their uses, advises on safe working practices, and then guides her readers through every stage of the jewelry making process in a series of carefully structured tutorials. Beginners and enthusiasts will learn―How to turn an original idea into a workable design and, ultimately, a beautiful piece of jewelryHow to work with precious and semiprecious stones, metals, glass, plastic, resin, and woodHow to present and sell jewelry to dealers and wholesalersClear, full-color, step-by-step photos demonstrate the methods of fashioning metals by heating, hammering, casting, soldering, riveting, polishing, finishing, and adding surface decoration. At-a-glance panels explain how to apply the techniques and choose the correct materials, from crystals to sterling silver. While this thorough, easy-to-understand jewelry guide is a perfect gift for adults who love crafts, it's also the perfect how-to-guide for transforming hobbyists into true professionals. This complete guide is also ideal for fashion and jewelry courses.Learn the art of jewelry making with just one, must-have book! Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sourcebooks; unknown edition (November 1, 2007)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0764136607


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 03


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.75 x 0.36 x 8.75 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #149,012 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #20 in Jewelry Design (Books) #92 in Jewelry Craft (Books) #311 in Fashion Design


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Top Amazon Reviews

    • The perfect starting place
Incredible book, lots of guidance and comprehensive information. when you are starting out there is a lot of lingo to cover within the industry, and for tools and processes. I cannot recommend this enough - if you are interested in starting out, you are a beginner, buy this before you buy ANY courses and shell out what could be a fortune, it will help lay the foundations for everything your creative mind and your heart can imagine. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2018 by Amazon Customer
    • Excellent Beginner's Course
I have taken a beginning level jewelry making course and find Jinks McGrath's book to be a very useful supplement to classwork. It is particularly good on setting up a studio, identifying needed tools and purchasing or ordering materials. The soldering and bezel-making information interested me most and the book is very thorough in that respect. Other areas very well-covered are design and the related topic of measuring to achieve design aspirations. Finally, the work pictured throughout is lovely and inspiring, with nothing tacky or tasteless included. I like this manual very much and feel that it delivers exactly what the title promises. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2010 by Laura Dulski
    • so informative and written for everyone.
It seems that all the studios that offer classes are either to far to drive or are very costly, but I love to make jewelry and I'm always thirsty for more knowledge. When I saw this course at Amazon I was so excited because, #1it was 30% off, and 2nd the description sounded like a book I would really enjoy. Now that I have the course book i'm so glad, its written in a style that is easy follow. I am greatly benefitinq from the purchase, and better yet so are my clients. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2013 by Donna Voelker
    • The Complete Jewelry Making Course
This book is NOT a book of patterns and designs. It is purely a book that gives you some instruction and some ideas about almost every technique you could possibly use to make jewelry. It begins with the very basics about tools (bending tools, forming tools, measuring tools, holding tools, etc.), finding inspiration in nature and other methods, about precious metals (different properties of the precious metals) and non-precious metals, techniques such as annealing, piercing, cutting wire, quenching and pickling, soldering, polishing and finishing, and others. Each of these techniques seem rather complex when you are first starting them, so the one or two pages devoted to each is not enough for you to truly learn any of them. This book simply gives you the basic ideas if you think you might be interested. I like the book because you DO get an idea of all the wonderful techniques available to us, and you can get an idea of what they entail and if you might be interested in pursuing them further. There are only 3-5 photos demonstrating how to do the techniques (some as few as three!) which is definitely not enough for you to LEARN to do them. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2013 by Rather be at the Beach
    • Great descriptions and awesome projects, this combined with the complete mentality are excellent learning tools.
Great descriptions and awesome projects, this combined with the complete metalsmith are excellent learning tools. I definitely enjoyed all the projects. As an aspiring jeweler I often look to books like this for tips, inspiration, and ask alternative views and methods to work with metal on a jewelry level. This book provided an excellent source for all of that. I do not recommend that you use one text or the other for learning metallurgy but this one is definitely worth a look. Definitely consider checking out from the ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2015 by Armando
    • Heated course.
If read as suggested, good luck. It reads like a text- book. Which what it is. I think. I like the author very much. He knows what he is writing about. Good suggestions. As a novice I'm not always sure. But then I read it over & take notes or underline. Like school. We all learn from doing so good luck everyone. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2016 by Kelly Lee
    • GOOD reference book for metalsmithing...
Another Jinks McGrath book...I like the way she teaches. Not dumb-down or too over my newbie head. I am getting a good grasp of what I am doing and having a good time, too. I ordered this at Christmas, and didn't really expect it to arrive on time, but it came BEFORE the expected date as all my Amazon purchases do. It was in PRISTINE condition. Another of my regular 'go to' books when I am doing my work. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2014 by HK Jaye
    • Good for Inspiration but thats it...
I gave this book three stars for one reason. It has good pictures. It is not, however, in depth, or in anyway "complete" with regards to step by step instructions for each technique discussed. It is more a severely abridged version of how-to instructions. I am currently taking a jewelry-making/metal-working class and I bought this book and The Work Bench Guide to Jewelry Techniques by Anastasia Young (which is much more thorough) for supplemental reading as I went through the class and half-way through it, I quit reading it and now just look at the pictures for inspiration. It does have good resources cited and the information about types of metal and jewels and how they are graded, measured, and priced is adequate. But if you want a step by step how-to book, this is NOT it. My notes from class are more complete. And frankly, metal is too expensive to be guessing your way through. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2012 by e to tha j

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