The Complete Book of Jewelry Making: A Full-Color Introduction To The Jeweler's Art | 
|  | | | Title: | The Complete Book of Jewelry Making: A Full-Color Introduction To The Jeweler's Art | | Author: | Carles Codina | | Publisher: | Lark Books | | Type: | Book / Hardcover | | Publication Date: | December, 2000 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 1579901883 / 9781579901882 | | List Price: | $29.95 | | Amazon Price: | $75.00 (via Amazon marketplace seller) | | | |
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“Most of the examples are contemporary...and all blessed with great color photographs—as is the grand finale, the step-by-step how-tos of seven different pieces, detailed with words and in pictures...introduction for buyers as well as for budding artisans.â€â€”Booklist. “A beautifully illustrated guide to jewelry-making techniques...a very useful chapter on the properties of metals.â€â€”Library Journal.
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• Superb Introduction To Jeweler's Techniques For Serious Amateurs. 12 January, 2008
I've been doing basic stone setting and soldering fabrication for a couple of years and have been looking for a good introduction to more advanced jeweler's techniques to help inspire me to take it to the next level. There are a multitude of beautifully illustrated and produced books that attempt to do this - but fail because they don't show you enough (in an misguided attempt to keep it simple) - The Encyclopedia of Jewelry-Making Techniques comes to mind as an example of this problem. This book - Carles Codina's The Complete Book of Jewelry Making - is the real deal. It serves as a basic introduction, but gives enough detail to really get you off the ground and doing projects. I learned new wrinkles on techniques I thought I knew - and got really good insight into new techniques I've been wanting to learn, such as bead setting, engraving, bright cutting, granulation, reticulation, patination, enamel, etc.. Impressive as getting this right is - this book goes further: it gets into the cultural history and significance of jewelery art and is full of really inspiring examples of jeweler's art. Simply having pictures of great art isn't impressive - but really connecting the achieved vision of that art with the techniques described is. So, you don't just get a good idea of how to do the technique and what it looks like - but you also get a real sense of why; of how the technique pays off artistically.
This book starts off with a brief introduction of where jewelry fits in human civilization. Then it moves to introducing the bench and basic techniques and then moves on to advanced techniques. The basic techniques section mentions important details such as collecting and organizing your scraps and assaying metals. The techniques section illustrate each technique step by step and each one shows you a finished project. Finally it does a series of project illustrated step by step that make use of multiple techniques in a real applied fashion. Each part of the book is illustrated with sumptuous photographs showing the technique and tools. The text is brief, but doesn't lack detail. The artistic vision of the artist is modern - but whether you love the pieces shown or not, there is no debating that they utilize and illustrate the craft in an admirable fashion. This book fires me up and gets me working.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1F7SX3GNVBNE3
• Terrific Book 25 May, 2009
Beautiful designs illustrate well written instructions by a gifted teacher. Basic information with step-by-step projects at the end that combine techniques from earlier in the text. I like it well enough to purchase other titles by this author.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A6ZV6MPXQN2XU
• Excellent Reference 17 August, 2008
This is an excellent reference for the bench as well as an inspirational book. It explains in a detailed manner about metalurgy, alloys, basic techniques, intermediate and advanced. The pictures are big and the author shows an extensive variety of projects (gallery and wearable pieces) to demonstrate the different techniques. It is a big book, therefore, contains lots of tables, information and pictures.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1I2SJQYYNWN1G
• Excellent All The Way! 29 November, 2007
The book is complete in reviewing all the aspects of jewelry making. Very clear explanations supported by big beautiful photographs. A must for all jewelry enthousiasts who would like to start steps in this beautiful craft.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1EMN35JDAZPTO
• Simply The Best Of The Lot 11 February, 2009
If you're interested in jewelry-making, try this book FIRST! It has much better illustrations than Tim McCreight's Metalsmithing book and is much more complete than Nicola Hurst's Step by Step project book.
Not only is this book a complete and extremely well-written guide to the jeweler's art, it's packed with photos of truly original jewelry that will inspire a new way of thinking about jewelry.
This is a fun book just to flip through like a coffeetable book, but it's also hands down the best jewelry-making instruction manual I've found.
The best.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1QW8S87I5LKRS
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