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JEWELRY -- GEMSTONE xx GEMSTONE PROJECTS xx JEWELRY Guidelines to help you get the most for your money when you buy jewelry. Covers the 4 C's of gemstones (color, clarity, cut, and carat weight), gold, Indian jewelry, and knowing your jeweler Ways to use gemstone balls to make earrings, stick pins, pendants, etc. Tips on mounting the balls and making decorative gold or silver leaves to accompany the balls. How to make jewelry that combines wood and gemstones. Designing jewelry for malachite. Channel jewelry. Make decorative mosaic jewelry by fitting colorful gem materials into sterling silver channel strips. (The technique is similar to forming stained glass pictures using lead channel). Setting faceted stones. Tip: Use cement to aid in centering and aligning faceted stones during setting. How to make jewelry with tumble polished gemstones. Making jewelry and decorations with rose-shaped crystal aggregates of barite from central Oklahoma (called "rose rocks"). Jewelry pieces made from slices cut from walnut shells, chips of gem material, and plastic resin. Making specialty jewelry for a Shriner. Tips on making pin, cuff links, tie clasp, and collar corners out of silver and featuring gemstone emblems using the channel method. Tip: Remove stones from cement-on findings by soaking in vinegar overnight. Gem of fashion. Lois Pippert comments on role of "fashion" when selecting the color of gem materials for use in jewelry. An ancient art. How to make Indian arrowheads from obsidian and regular glass using a chipping and flaking technique. The resulting arrowheads are used for decorations and jewelry. Tip: Assemble a domed setting for seven stones from seven individual 4-prong low-base head findings. Desert rose jewelry. Barite crystals find a multitute of uses in jewelry and artworks. Tip: Use silicon rubber for the filler when mounting a stone or cabochon in a setting. Chip inlay. Crushed up bits of decorative gemstone or rock can be glued into recesses to form decorative jewelry Tips on making simple frames for gemstones from pieces of wire or flat plate. Wood, metal and gemstones. Small rectangles of exotic wood, cemented to a metal backing, serve as settings for gemstones. Use as pins or pendants. Collecting Minerals, a Handbook..." Part 5. A summary of ways to produce gemstone jewelry. Tips on tumbling, cutting, cabochons, lapping and carving. How to adapt basic papier-mache techniques, scrap materials, and small gemstones to make broaches, pendants, etc. Crafting turquoise jewelry. Part 1. Roughing out a stone and dopping the stone. Crafting turquoise jewelry. Part 2. Design and design transfer and sawing. Crafting turquoise jewelry. Part 3. Filing and soldering. Crafting turquoise jewelry. Part 4. Setting turquoise and shaping wire, rings, and bracelets. Crafting turquoise jewelry. Part 5. Finding and chain. Finishing. Crafting turquoise jewelry. Part 6. The jewelers workshop and four simple projects. Crafting turquoise jewelry. Part 7. Project 5: Eight-petaled lotus necklace. Project 6: Flamingo pendant. Project 7: Wire earrings. Project 8: Fish pendant. Project 9: Inlaid ring. Crafting turquoise jewelry. Part 8. Project 10: Inlaid broach. Project 11: Flower braclet. Project 12: Elk bola tie. Project 13: Turquoise maiden buckle. Project 14: Hopi Indian buckle. Easy mountings for free form cabochons, natural crystals, uncut stones, trilobites, arrowheads, etc. A project for beginners. A method used for assembly of fine, delicate jewelry in which the design is composed of a center stone surrounded by many small accessory stones. Plasticine and gypsum are used to hold the stones for soldering. Tip: Use graphite shavings to darken epoxy used to hold dark stones. Tips for the beginning jewelry maker on setting a stone in sterling prongs. No stone unturned. A goldsmith offers amateurs stone-setting suggestions for creating professional-looking finished jewelry. Crystal capping. How to use wire wrapping to incorporate crystals into pieces of jewelry. Tip on using paraffin to hold stones in place while they are being set. An adhesive for tumbled gem jewelry is suggested. So you wanna make jewelry. A blueprint for getting started in jewelry making, stone setting, gem cutting, and/or gem carving. | |||||||||
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