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Before you master any jewelry-making technique, I've learned that it's important to get a good foundation in the basics. If you start off with sloppy methods or build on bad habits, the problems can just multiply and get so ingrained in your techniques that they're like all bad habits--hard...
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Have you ever met a jewelry designer or other artist whose work is so appealing to you that you love every single thing they create? For me, one of those jewelry artists is Gail Crosman Moore. Her work features so many of my favorite jewelry-making techniques, including enameling, metal clay, traditional...
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When I wrote about my newfound love of brass a couple of weeks ago, I was surprised at how many people commented, "I didn't know you could enamel on brass!" Well, I didn't know you couldn't enamel on brass, so I did . . . and it worked just fine. For me, enameling on brass was no...
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Hammering and fusing metal, colorful enamel, dapping and doming . . . many of my favorite jewelry-making techniques and supplies have all come together in this cool project from our friends at Fusion Beads! For those of you looking for a project you can do with your micro torch , here you go! Note that...
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28 Jan 2013
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What a fun year we've had making jewelry together! I hope you've all enjoyed learning new techniques and mastering ones you already knew, learning about new jewelry-making tools and supplies, and swooning over gemstones with me. I've learned two incredibly fun new techniques this year, electroforming...
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2 Jan 2013
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Just in time for holiday gift-giving, here's a quick and fun earring-making project, courtesy of our friends at Fusion Beads. With wrapped wire and textured and dapped metal, they're stylish and modern but not difficult to make, so you can set up a little elf-style assembly line and make several...
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10 Dec 2012
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By Kate Richbourg Today I am sharing one of my favorite projects from my Simple Soldering book, the Copper Tube Bead Necklace. This was the first piece I made for the book. I love how it features a bunch of different skills (multistep soldering , dapping, cutting, and hole punching) and also highlights...
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I always choose my micro torch over the larger torch setup whenever it will do the job just as well. I like to work with fine silver, too, which is ideal for micro torch use. Perhaps I like fine silver because it allows me to use the micro torch, or perhaps I can use the micro torch because I usually...
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9 Nov 2012
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One of my favorite parts about taking jewelry classes or reading jewelry-making blogs and magazines is learning new ways to do jewelry-making tasks and techniques that I already know. It's fun and enlightening to see the unique ways that others do common tasks. That's why I chose this mixed-media...
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31 Oct 2012
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Gorgeous enamel powder colors! Torch-fired enameling is my current favorite jewelry-making technique. I have always loved enameling and the colorful possibilities it offers, but I was put off by the kiln--I don't have one, which was a major deterrent! But I didn't like the idea of kiln enameling...
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For a few months now, we've had the pleasure of guest blogs by Kate Richbourg , a talented jewelry artist and metalwork teacher with a magnetic personality, on all kinds of soldering topics: soldering with a mini torch, soldering alternative metals like copper and brass, and more. Well, now I have...
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Welcome to week 18 of our 22-week-long contest of jewelry-making tools and supplies! We're celebrating Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist magazine's 65th anniversary by giving away a huge collection of jewelry prizes from the industry's most respected jewelry-supply retailers and manufacturers...
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There are so few soldering and metalsmithing techniques that can't be achieved with a micro torch , especially now that new and improved micro torches are popping up in the market. You can solder with a micro torch, of course, but you can also "flame paint" on copper and other metals with...
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10 Aug 2012
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I'm (probably) no longer going to complain about how challenged I am when it comes to making chain maille jewelry . I've had an epiphany. The inspiration necklace. Photo: ABC Family. I was watching one of my guilty-pleasure ("teeny bopper" as Mama says) television shows the other night...
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Let's start by discussing the type of "alternative" metals that we are going to solder . We are going to use "nonferrous" metals, meaning that all of these metals belong to the same iron-free family and therefore can be treated the same way when used for making jewelry. Specifically...