The Jewelry Maker's Field Guide · Tools and Essential Techniques by Driggs, Helen -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Contents Introduction: How to Use This Book Part One: Raw Materials

Jewelry Metals and Alloys Demo: How to use the B & S gauge Jewelry Stones Other Jewelry Materials

Part Two: Into the Workshop

Shop Layout and Safety Building Block One: Material Preparation Demo: Cleaning metal Demo: Three ways to use dividers Demo: How to use a center punch Building Block Two: Holding Your Work Demo: How to customize a stock bench pin Demo: How to use a tube-cutting jig Demo: How to use a ring clamp Demo: How to use pearl or stone vises

Part Three: At the Bench

Building Block Three: Piercing and Separating Demo: The jeweler’s saw: Threading the blade and sawing Demo: Attaching or scribing a sawing pattern on metal Applied Technique: Sawing the practice pattern Demo: Using snips and shears Demo: Drilling uniform holes Building Block Four: Filing, Abrading, and Polishing Demo: How to make a sanding stick Demo: How to file Demo: How to use a rotary file Applied Technique: Change the profile of stock by filing

Part Four: Fabrication and Assembly

Building Block Five: Cold Connections Demo: How to make and set a tube rivet DEMO: How to make and set a solid rivet Applied Technique: A movable chain of units joined with rivets Building Block Six: Brazing and Soldering Demo: How to solder Applied Technique: Four-pendant series with four different solder joins

Part Five: Moving Metal

Building Block Seven: Surface Texture and Embellishment on Flat Sheet Demo: How to stamp metal evenly Demo: How to hammer an even texture Demo: Emboss with a rolling mill Applied Technique: Wire inlay between roll-patterned metal sheet Building Block Eight: Distorting Sheet Metal into 3-D Forms Demo: How to dap a hemisphere Demo: How to use a bracelet or ring mandrel Applied Technique: Hammer tapers into bar stock

Part Six: Putting It All Together

Projects

Glossary Resources Index Expand your jewelry-making repertoire Acknowledgments Copyright Tables