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Chain Maille
In jewelry making we often use jump rings to connect other parts, securing a clasp to a necklace or charms to a bracelet; but you can also make jewelry with nothing but jump rings, too. The jewelry making technique of chain maille combines jump rings to create chains, knots, necklaces, bracelets and earrings, and can be as simple or complex as you desire. Requiring little more than pliers to open and close the jump rings and a good supply of jump rings to work with, this useful way to make jewelry is an easy and versatile technique to add to your jewelry toolbox.
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Enameling
In "Enameling," techniques and tool maven Helen Driggs answers the question "What is enamel," shows what you need for your enameling tool kit, and explains some basic enameling rules of the road. Then Helen shares 21 tips from four of the most accomplished enamellist jewelers working today. And in "Enameled Filigree Beads," Pam East walks you through her simple technique of torch firing enamel onto a premade bead using a handheld torch. Whether you are ready to explore enameling for the first time or have been enameling jewelry for years, this free eBook is sure to teach you something new about this exciting and colorful technique! Download your free eBook to get started today!
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Glass Bead Making
In this new Jewelry Making Daily free eBook, available for download today, you will discover the endless creative opportunities for glass beads. Ignite the jewelry artist within by learning step-by-step how to take bars of color, lampwork tools, and your unique sense of design, and turn them into personalized lampwork beads.
With these three projects and our bonus lampwork tools & supplies article, you will be on your way to exlporing this mezmorizing medium. Download your free eBook today!
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Jewelry Business
Learn how to sell jewelry and improve your home-based jewelry business with expert tips from successful jewelry business owners in this free eBook. Selling jewelry should be enjoyable as well as profitable. There's a lot more to selling jewelry than exchanging a pair of earrings for a pair of $20s. Whether you want to start a jewelry business and need tips on how to price jewelry effectively and fairly, or have been selling jewelry for years, this free eBook is an essential guide. In How to Sell Jewelry: Tips for Selling Jewelry Online and Improving Your Home-based Jewelry Business, you'll find information about how to use the Internet and social media to promote your jewelry business online. Learn how to bring jewelry buyers to your business whether you're selling jewelry online or off, and learn how to make money selling jewelry today!
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Jewelry Making Techniques
Nothing is as rewarding as learning how to make your own jewelry and
being able to wear it with pride or make it the most personal of gifts.
Nothing expresses your own style and personality like a piece of
original artisan jewelry that you designed and made yourself. And
nothing is quite as satisfying as the act of making jewelry yourself:
from selecting your design and gathering your tools and materials to
arriving at the final cleanup and suddenly holding that beautiful,
finished piece in your very own hands. This free jewelry making eBook includes a
broad range of styles, materials, and jewelry techniques. The
perfect companion to learn how to make jewelry, this eBook is full of
beautiful jewelry making projects and jewelry instructions to make
jewelry that is sure to get noticed.
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Jewelry Making Tools
Don’t know the difference between a bench block, a mandrel and an anvil? We’ll clue you in. When do you use a ball peen hammer, a planishing hammer, and a chasing hammer? We’ll let you know – and tell you why one pro calls a wellformed planishing hammer his favorite jewelry tool of all. Want to know what chain nose pliers and round nose pliers look like, or what kinds of other jewelry pliers are available? We’ll show you. Why is a pin vise or a tube cutter a handy thing to have? We’ll explain that and much more. In The Illustrated Guide to Jewelry Making Tools, you’ll find everything you need to get started making your own handmade jewelry.
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Lapidary
A gemstone is the perfect medium for a jewelry artist to display color and light—not to mention what a fashion statement it can make. But good gemstones do not grow on trees. Most of them start out as minerals that have to be located, carefully dug out of the ground, hauled home, examined for potential as lapidary rough, oriented correctly, and cut by an expert lapidary. And if you want your gem conveniently on your hand or around your neck, then that stone also needs the talent and deft touch of an expert jewelry artist.
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Metal Clay
In this fabulous e-book, 3 Free Metal Clay Jewelry Projects: Make Jewelry with Precious Metal Clay, Art Clay and Other Metal Clays, you will find three metal clay jewelry making projects that demonstrate how to combine different metal clays, how to work with metal clay and wire wrapping, how to make earrings, pins, and rings, and how to use silver, copper, bronze, and steel metal clays. You can make these projects just as shown, or apply what you learn from the illustrated step-by-step instructions to create stunning metal clay jewelry designs of your own.
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Metalsmithing
How do you turn a piece of flat silver sheet or other jewelry metal into the rounded forms common in making metal jewelry? How do you make jump rings? What metalworking tools are used for forming metal into a ring? What are the dos and don’ts of metal jewelry making? In this informative free metalsmithing instructional video, Jewelry Making Daily goldsmith Helen Driggs demonstrates working with some of the most basic jewelry making tools used in shaping metal into rings, bracelets, neckpieces and more.
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Metal Stamping
Join Helen Driggs, Senior Editor for Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist and an experienced metalsmith, in a free video tutorial on metal stamping jewelry. Helen's jewelry-making focus is fabrication, especially metal forming and forging. Using basic metal stamping techniques on metal stamps for jewelry can take your jewelry to the next level. Add a personal touch to your metalsmith jewelry pieces with unique and original designs using affordable or homemade metal stamping tools. Whether you're new to metal stamping or just need stamping ideas, this free video tutorial is sure to teach you something. If you're stamping metal for the first time, you'll discover the importance of practice and proper positioning, as well as the essential metal stamping tools needed to get started.
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Micro Torch
Join Denise Peck, editor of Step by Step Wire Jewelry and senior editor of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist, in a free video tutorial on how to use a butane micro torch to fuse wire links. This simple technique will help take your jewelry to the next level, allowing you to add yet another personal touch to your designs. All you need for this straightforward technique is a 6 inch butane torch and butane fuel, fine silver wire, and a fireproof work station.
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Resin Jewelry
If you are ready to explore resin casting for jewelry making, this eBook is for you. The experts at Jewelry Making Daily gathered three resin jewelry projects plus a bonus guide to resin jewelry making supplies to get you started. Each of the three resin jewelry projects use a premade bezel, but if you are comfortable doing it, you can create your own bezels and other adaptations as needed. Also in this free resin jewelry making collection you'll find great tips for working with resin plus a handy chart of pros and cons for the five types of resin for jewelry. Create each project step by step, or use these resin jewelry ideas to design your own custom handmade resin jewelry. Download your free eBook to get started exploring resin jewelry making!
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Silver Jewelry
Improve your skills as a jewelry making silversmith while you create an outstanding silver pendant, ring, and pin. In this new Jewelry Making Daily free eBook, available for download today, you will discover three silver jewelry making projects packed with valuable information to help guide you further into the art of silversmithing. Whether you’re into making silver jewelry for yourself or friends, or to create custom silver jewelry to sell, you’ll find Silversmithing Techniques from Jewelry Making Daily: 3 Free Silver Jewelry Making Projects a valuable reference and source of inspiration.
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Soldering Jewelry
Whether you are experienced or new to making your own jewelry, this introductory eBook about silver soldering and soldering copper jewelry is full of essential basics you will use again and again throughout your jewelry-making lifetime. There are a wide variety of jewelry soldering supplies and tools to choose from. Soldering jewelry involves adhering one piece or part of metal to another. Solder and flux are used to securely adhere metal pieces to one another. Jewelry soldering requires special soldering supplies due to the amount of heat required to affix metal pieces together. Learn the basics and supplies you need to get started on soldering jewelry today with this free eBook from Jewelry Making Daily!
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Stone Cutting
Whether you intend to set a stone in jewelry or display it proudly on a shelf, and whether the lapidary rough is transparent to opaque, all the same or elaborately patterned, the first question to ask is: what’s the best way to cut this stone? All of the answers you need are here at your fingertips, thanks to Jewelry Making Daily. Download this free eBook now and learn five different approaches to gem cutting that will help you take advantage of all kinds of gemstones.
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Stone Setting
Once you’ve learned how to form and assemble metal to create the jewelry piece you’ve envisioned, the next jewelry making skill you need to master is stone setting. How do you add a faceted stone or cabochon gem to your designs? There are many ways to set stones, and each gem and the piece of jewelry it will be mounted in will present a unique fabrication challenge. This e-book will help you identify and learn about many types of stone settings from basic bezels to other bezels to non-bezel stone setting techniques. Add what you need to your stone setting toolbox and get illustrations of the basic types of stone setting.
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Wire Jewelry Making
Making wire jewelry is a great way to make stunning jewelry designs without soldering. There are many things you can do with wire besides classic wire wrapping: you can weave wire, make wire coils and wire spirals, and connect wire rings, better known as jump rings, into intricate, beautiful wire jewelry patterns. Download these 5 free wire jewelry projects to explore all these versatile techniques. This free eBook comes with complete step by step wire jewelry instructions as well as material and tool lists. Once you try these great wire jewelry designs, you’ll be hooked.
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