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Metalsmithing Basics: Tips and Tools for Cutting and Sawing Metal Like a Pro

by Kate Richbourg One of the skills I like to emphasize with my students is good cutting and filing techniques. Conquering both lends a professional look to your jewelry and great cutting/sawing skil...

2 days ago

Bracelets, Bangles, and Cuffs: Learn to Make Quick and Easy Arm Candy in One Hour

It might not be officially summer yet, but thanks to the warm weather, its officially short-sleeves-and-bracelets season! Though rings are my favorite piece of jewelry to make and wear, bracelets are...

4 days ago

Bracelets, Bangles, and Cuffs: Learn to Make Quick and Easy Arm Candy in One Hour

It might not be officially summer yet, but thanks to the warm weather, its officially short-sleeves-and-bracelets season! Though rings are my favorite piece of jewelry to make and wear, bracelets are...

4 days ago

Metal Fuming Tutorial: Give Your Lampwork Glass Beads a Gold (or Silver) Glow

Fuming glass is the technique of applying metal particles to the surface of a lampwork glass bead. I found this project while looking through the Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist magazine archives (fr...

6 days ago

Gemstones for Jewelry Making: Why Colored Stones Deserve a Better Name Than "Semi-Preciou s"...

My love of gemstones goes back to my rock-hounding days at about the age of seven. I kept my prized "gemstone" collection in a pink (of course) Styrofoam egg carton, and as I only had twelv...

25 may 12

Create Etched, Stamped Pendants in "Clay Soldered" Bezels

One of my favorite things about attending "the shows" in Tucson each February is seeing the work of great new designers and reconnecting with old friends. Thats two things, I suppose, but i...

23 may 12

Hello, Boho! Let Your Hair Down with Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry-Making Techniques and Materials

  Jewelry Technique Tip from Loreleis Queen Annes Lace: Instead of cutting apart chain and wasting links, simply fold it for a mulistrand look. A quick online search will turn up all kinds of in...

18 may 12

Chain Making: Take Wire from Functional to Fabulous, Plus 7 Tips on Caring for Chain

Since Ive been working at Jewelry Making Daily (good times!), Ive gained a whole new appreciation for wire. I used to have a pretty specific view of wirework, but slowly, thankfully, Ive realized tha...

16 may 12

Micro Torches 101, Part 2: Torch in Action and Simple Soldering Setup

Are you ready to jump even further into the world of micro torches? In part one, I shared the basics of how micro torches work. This time we are going to move beyond the basics and get those torches ...

14 may 12

Gemstone Adventures: Mine for Moonstone and Learn to Set it in Jewelry

The recent full moon was so large and bright (earning itself "supermoon" status), so pretty in the spring sky, I found myself gazing at it as I traveled around Louisiana over the past weeke...

11 may 12

I Can Fill That With Resin: Out-of-the-Ordina ry Bezel Ideas Plus Five Resin Jewelry-Making Tips

After I learned how easy it is to create unique effects and jewelry designs with resin, preserving all the pretty or precious little things that I tend to collect, I was so hooked. Now I find myself ...

09 may 12

Beyond Metalsmithing Basics: Turn Plain Band Rings into Bamboo Stack Rings

  Photo by Jim Lawson. Once youve mastered the basic metalsmithing skills required to make simple band/stack rings, youll probably want to start jazzing things up a bit with textures and other d...

07 may 12

Make Easy Molds for Easy and Memorable Metal Clay Designs

  In a recent meeting of my local metal clay guild, someone shared the idea of using Play-Doh to make metal clay molds. Its inexpensive and readily available, its hard when it dries, and it come...

04 may 12

Wire Fusing, Coiling, Wrapping, Chain Making, Findings, and More: Our Best Wirework Tips from Denis...

Ive been digging through the Jewelry Making Daily wire articles and found that Denise Pecks blog on how to finish your wire jewelry professionally is our most visited blog *ever*! Here are her tips f...

02 may 12

Organizing Your Jewelry Tools: Making a File Holder

I found this easy-to-make jewelry file organizer in a back issue of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist. This one is for files, but I think a similar structure could be created for hammers, mandrels, and...

30 apr 12

Polymer Clay Jewelry Making: Learn How to Make Polymer Clay Jewelry with 5 Free Projects

Versatile. Thats the first word that comes to mind when I think of polymer clay jewelry making. The other words that come to mind when I think about making jewelry with polymer clay are forgiving, af...

27 apr 12

Lexis Tips for Selecting Cabochons: Choosing the Pick of the Litter, Stonewise

Do you suffer from sleepless nights because of your jewelry-making addiction? Are you still awake at 3 a.m. because your mind cant stop designing something elegant for that gorgeous new triangular Ra...

25 apr 12

Jewelry Design: Taking Cues from the Ultimate Designer, Mother Nature

Ask any jewelry designer (or designer of most anything, for that matter) what inspires them, and I bet more often than not, theyll say nature. I find myself picking up random things in the wild every...

23 apr 12

Metalsmithing Techniques, Tips, and Tutorials: Introduction to Broom Casting

  Pebbles by Beth Rosengard. Diamond and black drusy garnet earrings. On my ever-growing list of more advanced metalsmithing techniques to try, casting--specifically broom and cuttlefish ca...

20 apr 12

Look What I Found: Faceted Polymer Clay Beads Tutorial

Photo by Eugena Topina of Polymer Tutorials. I recently came across a great faceted polymer clay bead tutorial that was too good not to share. I rave about polymer clay as a jewelry-making medium bec...

19 apr 12

Part Two: Patina and Texture, a Jewelry Makers Essential Tools by Ronna Sarvas Weltman

Editors note: Ronna Sarvas Weltman is a contributing editor for Step by Step Wire Jewelry and author of Ancient Modern: Polymer Clay and Wire Jewelry. She teaches workshops in polymer clay and wire j...

18 apr 12

Resin, Paper, Fibers, and More: Mixed-Media Jewelry Making with Kristal Wick

  Kristal made these sparkling bezels using UV resin and chunky Martha Stewart glitter. Ive always loved mixed-media jewelry, probably because it combines some of the many crafts Ive enjoyed for...

16 apr 12

More Great Jewelry Supplies: 27 Everyday Items Every Jewelry Studio Needs

The more I make jewelry, the more regular household things prove themselves useful jewelry tools and supplies for the process. I find myself hoarding lids--lids that have lost their bowls, lids from ...

13 apr 12

Creative Cold Connections: Setting a Stone with No Soldering

by Tim McCreight In the jewelry world, the term cold connections usually describes mechanical joining techniques that are used to fasten together parts that cannot be soldered (which is a "hot&q...

11 apr 12

Micro Torches 101, Part 1: The Which, What, and Why of Butane Torches

by Jewelry Making Dailys newest contributor, Kate Richbourg! Welcome to the world of butane torches (also known as micro torches or even crème brûlée torches)! Micro torches make ...

06 apr 12

Alternative Metals: Tips for Soldering Copper and Brass

You learn something new every day--if youre lucky, and if you follow the Jewelry Making Daily forums! Likely due to the rising cost of silver, theres been a lot of buzz of the forums recently about s...

04 apr 12

Stone Setting: Basic Bezel-Making Tips and Techniques from Michael Boyd

by Michael Boyd In our shop, we make hundreds if not thousands of bezels each year--sometimes twenty, thirty, and even up to fifty bezels for one piece of jewelry! Bezels offer the jewelry maker...

02 apr 12

Chain Maille Jewelry Making: Understanding Aspect Ratio

Ah, chain maille. We meet again. (Can you hear that woo-hoo-woo sound they play in old Westerns, just before two cowboys have a shoot out? No? Just me? Okay. . . . ) I get a little nervous whenever i...

30 mar 12

Metalsmithing Basics: Learn to Make One-of-a-Kind Rings in an Hour

  Thanks to Lexi Erickson, who taught me to make these rings and allowed me to share the project with you! Rings are my favorite piece of jewelry to collect, wear, and make. Fortunatel...

28 mar 12

Lagniappe for Jewelry Design: The Value of a Little Something Extra

That little blue bead hanging from the clasp of Lorelei Eurtos Oxford Circus cuff provides the lagniappe. This month Ive officially been a southwest Louisiana resident for one year. What a year! The ...

26 mar 12

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