More Teach Yourself VISUALLY Jewelry Making: Techniques to Take Your Projects to the Next Level
Chris Franchetti Michaels
Language: English
Pages: 320
ISBN: 1118083342
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The visual way to get hooked on jewelry making
Unlike other crafts that focus on a fairly narrow range of techniques and materials, jewelry making is very broad; the techniques encompass everything from bead stringing to metal stamping to working with different types of clay. More Teach Yourself VISUALLY Jewelry Making picks up where Teach Yourself VISUALLY Jewelry Making & Beading leaves off and gives you even more techniques to create new types of jewelry.
Beginning with a concise overview of jewelry making tools and essential techniques, the book gives you technique-specific chapters covering: basic metal work, metal cold connections, sculpting with metal clay, embellishing metal, designing with chain, using adhesives, and working with art glaze, resin, and leather. Plus, a final chapter devoted to example projects gives you instruction for making 12 unique pieces to add to your jewelry collection.
- Step-by-step instructions are accompanied by clear, detailed photographs
- Features a collection of appealing patterns using the techniques described
- Online bonus features include a free bonus project and downloadable artwork and patterns
- Other titles by Chris Franchetti Michaels: Teach Yourself VISUALLY Jewelry Making & Beading, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Beadwork, Beading VISUAL Quick Tips, and Wire Jewelry VISUAL Quick Tips
If you're a beginning to intermediate jewelry maker looking to add up-to-the-minute techniques to your repertoire, More Teach Yourself VISUALLY Jewelry Making has you covered.
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When you trim rivets, and aim the rivet end away from you when you make the cut.) 9 Slightly flatten the rivet end using a medium-grit sanding stick or a smooth (fine) cut metal file. 0 Place the components on your bench block with the rivet head facing down. ! Use the ball end of a small ball peen hammer (see Chapter 1) to tap evenly around the edge of the rivet end, gradually flaring the metal outward. @ Check to see whether the rivet is secure. If not, hammer just a little more and then.
Two of distilled water as you work. When you finish sculpting, you need to allow the clay to dry before you can fire it into solid metal. As metal clay dries, it first becomes leather hard (a), which is soft enough to carve with a knife because it still contains a bit of moisture. This is the best stage for refining the clay (see the section “Dry and Refine Unfired Metal Clay”). Eventually, the drying clay becomes bone dry (b), which is free of moisture. The time it takes for clay to dry is.
And finishing techniques result in metal dust accumulating on your tools. Before they are fired, bronze and copper clays are prone to contamination by the dust of other types of clay, such as silver clay. For this reason, be sure to keep a separate set of files, brushes, and sanders for refining your leather-hard bronze and copper clay pieces. You can also use that set for finishing the clay after firing. With tools that are easier to clean, such as rollers, work surfaces, and stamps, take care.
Paper as a disposable surface for the glue while you work. E6000 applied to a pendant blank with a craft stick Adhesive sealers (such as Mod Podge) are typically best applied by brushing. You can paint them onto surfaces using an artist brush. To minimize brush marks, apply multiple, thin layers, and allow each layer to dry between applications. For especially thin paper, like magazine clippings, adhere the paper to card stock first to minimize curling. Mod Podge brushed onto a printed paper.
Downloadable images online and printing them out at 300 pixels-per-inch (PPI) resolution. You can also search for “open source” images online, which typically are free to use. Be sure to properly seal images as necessary before using them (see the tip “Sealing Printed Images” on the next page). 159 Set a Cabochon, Glass Tile, or Stone Cover an Image with Glass When you glue a clear, domed glass cabochon or tile over an image, it becomes magnified. This example uses a domed cabochon to cover an.