Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist, April 2011

Learn the differences among jewelry torches and fuels and the flames they produce. Share what you know about jewelry making with others in online tutorials as a way of driving traffic to your online jewelry store. Make a dynamic, hinged silver pendant and learn to set faceted stones in your own cabochon, or use a purchaed one.  Learn how to form metal with metal and non-metal stakes and how to create fabulous texture while making an elegant silver cuff. Find out why top jewelry designers are working with fossil ivory and learn how to stabilize this material for bead making, plus see what one lapidary and goldsmith is doing with agate fossils.

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Tom Herman’s Coreopsis Brooch. 18K gold-backed agate and cow horn, with diamond and 18K gold, 2¼ " tall.
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Lapidary Journal - Jewelry Artist

April 2011
Volume 65, Number 1

Print Magazine Table of Contents

Features | Advertising Sections


Print Features

 4

My Turn
from the Editor
Every Color This Spring

6

Your Turn
Design Challenge & Letters

 

8

Their Turn
A Gallery of This Issues’s Contributors

 

12

Net Profits: How to Promote with How-To’s
by Cathleen McCarthy
more online at jewelrymakingdaily.com/ netprofits

FORMING WITH STAKES

14

Cool Tools & Hip Tips: Non-Metal Stakes
by Helen I. Driggs

18

Fluted Silver Cuff
jewelry project by William Fretz

FOSSIL GEMS

24

Smokin’ Stones: Fossilized Ivory
by Sharon Elaine Thompson

26

Brachiopod Agate
materials by Falk Burger

28

Nebraska’s Fossil Ivory
materials by Jim Landon
more at jewelrymakingdaily.com/lakemac

 

30

How to Solder Jewelry
Part 4 0f 10: Torches

technique by Lexi Erickson

 

36

Lo-Tech Etching
demo by Karen Christians

 

SAGENITE

42

Trends: Pierced Metal
by Annie Osburn

44

Turquoise and Pierced
Silver Bead Bracelet — Plus!

jewelry project by Noël Yovovich

OPENWORK

48

Purple Sagenitic Agate
materials by Roger Halas

50

Sagenite Intarsia Pendant
gem/jewelry project by Roger Halas

56

Setting Style: Van Cleef & Arpels
design by Cathleen McCarthy

62

Facets News & Product Innovations

64

Ask the Experts
by Tom & Kay Benham

80

The Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist
Doer’s Profile: E. Douglas Wunder

 

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73 Classifieds
75 Gem & Jewelry Shops
76 Jewelry Classes
78 PMC Instructors

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