Posts tagged with 'metalsmithing'

  • Complete Metal Resource

    POSTED BY TAMMY POWLEY, SEPTEMBER 18 2007 09:27 AM | PERMALINK

    When making metal jewelry, there are certain tools you just can't do without. Often when we think of "tool," we envision things like hammers and saws that we carry around in our tool box. However, books are another tool for the metal worker, and there's one tool in particular that I urge every metal head out there to get, if you haven't already. The books is called Complete Metalsmithand it's written by Tim McCreight who is pretty much the metal guru of the jewelry making world.

    There are...

  • Tool Time with Metalchik

    POSTED BY VICTORIA TILLOTSON, SEPTEMBER 17 2007 12:12 PM | PERMALINK


    Sterling and 18K Gold Ring with Tourmalated Quartz

    Tools, glorious tools!
    What wouldn’t we give for those extra bit more? That’s all we jewelers live for! Why should we be fated to do nothing but brood on tools, magical tools, wonderful tools, marvellous tools, fabulous
    tools!!!


    So much for my Metalchik ode to Oliver Twist. Seriously, tools are the most important, and most debated, aspect of any jewelry making. So dizzyingly diverse is the array of jewelry tools that it’s enough...

  • Big Deal Bezels

    POSTED BY TAMMY POWLEY, AUGUST 27 2007 12:00 PM | PERMALINK

     

     

    In the Metal Chik bezel-ring video, Victoria and Adam give a quick demonstration of the steps involved in making a bezel ring and also discuss the 60s' influence of geometric jewelry.

    I couldn't help but remember back to one of my first metalsmithing classes and how it took me way longer to make mine! I turned to my husband and said, "If I were to sell this, I'd have to charge a million dollars!" But, as you can tell from the video, once you know what you are doing, they are pretty easy to...