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Workbench Guide

This book provides a comprehensive reference for jewelry techniques, tools, and materials. It covers both traditional and alternative materials like plastics and resin. The book includes over 400 photographs and 200 illustrations demonstrating jewelry techniques like engraving, enameling, soldering, and stone setting. It also contains sections on tools, the design process, and a glossary and reference section. The author is a practicing jewelry designer and teacher seeking to provide an essential resource for both students and professionals.

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Workbench Guide

This book provides a comprehensive reference for jewelry techniques, tools, and materials. It covers both traditional and alternative materials like plastics and resin. The book includes over 400 photographs and 200 illustrations demonstrating jewelry techniques like engraving, enameling, soldering, and stone setting. It also contains sections on tools, the design process, and a glossary and reference section. The author is a practicing jewelry designer and teacher seeking to provide an essential resource for both students and professionals.

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ANASTASIA YOUNG

Your go-to reference book


This comprehensive and ambitious workshop reference for jewelers brings
together a vast range of skills, techniques, and technical data in one
volume, to provide an essential look-it-up resource for both students and
professionals. The focus in The Workbench Guide to Jewelry Techniques
is on detailed explanation—with clear step-by-step photography.

All of the techniques demonstrated are illustrated with photographs


THE WORKBENCH
of remarkable cutting-edge jewelry pieces by jewelry designers and GUIDE TO
makers from around the world.

In addition to detailed explanations of jewelry techniques there is:


n an extensive directory of tools and materials
n a key to identify tools for a “beginner’s kit”
n a historical introduction to jewelry
n a guide to the design process and to photographing and
promoting your own work
n a comprehensive reference section with a directory of gems,
tool shapes, glossary, standard sizes and measurements,
conversion tables, and an extensive list of resources

The Workbench Guide to Jewelry Techniques covers traditional


Engraving • Chasing and repoussé • Fusing • Riveting • Enameling •
metalsmithing skills and techniques for alternative materials, such as plastics Drilling • Piercing • Filing • Annealing • Soldering • Pickling • Wire work
and resin in expert detail, as well as discussing issues such as the process of
outsourcing work to specialist external suppliers.
• Fold forming • Bending • Hammering • Cutting • Carving • Mounting
and setting stones • Polishing • Stamping • Doming/swaging • Forging
• Anticlastic raising • Hydraulic press • Wax carving and modeling •
Vulcanized rubber molds • Precious metal clay • Silicone • Casting
resin, ciment fondue, and porcelain • Plaster • Bending wood, horn,
Anastasia Young is a practicing designer, jeweler, and Hardcover, 8 1⁄2 x 10, 320 pages and Perspex • Carving natural materials and wood • Textiles • Plastics
artist whose work has been exhibited internationally. 400 photographs, 200 illustrations,
She is the author of The Jeweler's Technique Bible. 100 charts • Beads and pearls • Hinges • Findings • Catches • Chain • Etching •
She is a graduate of the Royal College of Art, and ISBN: 978-1-59668-169-9
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design $34.95 Rolling mill textures • Hammer textures • Sandblasting • Frosting
in London, where she now teaches the BA jewelry
design course.
Available February 2010
wheel • Reticulation • Granulation • Anodizing • Tooling leather •
Patinas • Dyes • Laminating • Metallic powders • Gold leaf • Stone
setting templates • Inlay • Mokume gane • Bezel or tube settings •
Collet settings • Claw settings • Flush settings • Pave and grain
settings • Channel settings • Illusion settings • Spectacle settings •
Fancy settings • Stringing beads • Gemstones • Outwork • CAD/CAM

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