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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


Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 1, 2007


Edition ‏ : ‎ unknown


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 144 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0764136607


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 03


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.06 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.75 x 0.36 x 8.75 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #292,483 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #73 in Jewelry Design (Books) #264 in Jewelry Craft (Books)


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Top Amazon Reviews

    • Very informative
Format: Paperback
Very informative book, good description and guidance. Good photos to walk you through the work. Could have added better pieces to create but a good book for my library.
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2025 by Lori Anderson
    • Worth the money
Format: Paperback
I bought this book with the intent of learning to make jewelry to sell. I got more than I bargained for. This book not only metal working techniques, but soldering, working with wire, and beading. It also teaches you about finishing and polishing, the tools you will need, and how to set up your area. I would definitely recommend this book. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2025 by Carissa Johnston
    • Excellent Beginner's Course
Format: Paperback
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
    • The Complete Jewelry Making Course
Format: Paperback
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
    • Wonderful book
Format: Paperback
This book tells you everything you need to know about making jewelry. It absolutely tells you, step by step, how to do a project. It also tells you all tools you will need, explains what they are for and how they are used and it shows pictures of every one of them. I bought this book because I'm going to start making stained glass jewelry but now, I'm going to be doing a whole lot more. This a great book. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2013 by Lisa M. Henricks
    • Excellent pictures and overview of
Format: Paperback
Not a comprehensive course in the sense of "How to..."; "Steps 1 - 34 for the beginner". Excellent pictures and overview of: - What an aspiring jewelry maker should consider as they begin the jewelry making craft - offers a detailed shopping list of items you will need. - provides simple descriptions of key terms, tools and processes. Good luck to all who want to learn. But this is no 101 - perhaps Unit 1 of the 101 . ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2016 by R. A. Ka Siame
    • The perfect starting place
Format: Paperback
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

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