Jewelry: Fundamentals of Metalsmithing (Jewelry Crafts)

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Summary: great resource!
Review: A wonderful book. Tim McCreight is a technical wizard

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Summary: Excellent book for going over basic techniques.
Review: I am in the midst of a beginning jewelry making class and this book is proving invaluable. Not only are there beautiful examples of work pictured, there are in depth descriptions of which techniques were used to create them. A beautifully designed book - a pleasure!

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Summary: A fine, fine book
Review: The fact that McCreight has been teaching for 25 years really shines through. The little tips he slips in are great and his suggestions for improvising and making your own tools would save you the cost of the book in short order. There are flashes of humour and the illustrations are inspirational.

One of the editorial reviews mentions that the book contains no projects. While strictly true this is slightly misleading. McCreight includes a number of step-by-step sets of instructions for achieving particular results, but doesn't arrange them into end-to-end projects - leaving you free to think up your own, which personally I prefer.

One of the customer reviews also notes that the illustrations and text are not directly tied together. This is also true, but I was able to make the connections myself in 90% of cases. In the section on hinges, the illustrations show pieces with hinges, and so forth. They are there to stimulate your creativity rather than to tie in tightly to the text.

If you buy no other jewellery crafting book, buy this one.

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Summary: Wonderfull Book Great Resource
Review: This is a wonderfull resource book for everyone, it explains aspects of jewerly making in an easy to understand conice format. I highly recomend this book for anyone intrested in jewerly making.