Synopses & Reviews
Jewelry Lab uses brevity to ignite a passion for working the metals processes and learning about all the ways metal can be used. It provides aspiring metalsmiths and jewelry makers a way to learn fundamental techniques that is quick and fun. In addition to the basic skills such as sawing, drilling, soldering, and finishing, the book covers texturing, etching, rolling, coloring, patinas, forming, connections, findings, solders, bezels, rivets, and other experimental techniques. This is not a project book; rather, it is an approachable, unintimidating workbook that breaks metals processes down into very specific experiments, such as texturing or plastic deformation of metal, with no goal in mind other than to experience how metal moves. Readers learn to understand more about metal, how to master it, and gain a deep, thoughtful underlying appreciation for process and method, becoming entranced with finely crafting objects with great care.
About the Author
Normal0MicrosoftInternetExplorer4Melissa Manley lives and works in southeastern North Carolina a few miles from Wrightsville beach. She received her BA in studio arts from University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Years later, she went back to grad school. While there she studied with enameling master Linda Darty and the godfather of found object Robert Ebendorf. She earned her MFA in Metal Design at East Carolina University in 2006. Melissa now teaches metals at Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington. Melissa has also taught workshops around the country in collage, book altering, watercolor and jewelry making for the past 7 years. Her work has appeared in Somerset Studio magazine, Crafting Personal Shrines by Carol Owen, The Fine Art of Enameling by Linda Darty, Making Connections by Susan Lenart Kazmer, and 500 Enameled Objects by Lark books. Teaching, making in a variety of mediums, keeping up with her teenage musician daughter Meredith, and her professional kayak guru and partner Robert Smith all keep her very busy! For more visit her blog: http://melissamanleystudios.blogspot.com/
Table of Contents
Introduction
Getting Started
Making an Impact
Lab 1: Texturing with Hammers
Lab 2: Found Texture
Lab 3: Homemade Texture Hammers
Lab 4: Simple Forged Cuff
Lab 5: Patterns with Letter Stamps
Leaving an Impression
Lab 6: Etching with a Paint Pen
Lab 7: Blue Magic! Etching with PNP
Lab 8: Spray Paint as a Resist
Lab 9: Etching a Texture Plate on Steel
Rolling with the Flow
Lab 10: Rolling Natural Material
Lab 11: Using Etched Plates on a Roll Mill
Lab 12: Using Stickers with a Mill
Lab 13: Using Paper Punches
Lab 14: Commercial Stampings
Forming
Lab 15: Making Fold-Form Leaves
Lab 16: Making Fold-Form Boats
Lab 17: Fold-Form Cuff
Lab 18: Form to Die For
Making Connections
Lab 19: Tube Rivets
Lab 20: Standard Rivets
Lab 21: Cold-Joining Plastics
Lab 22: Recycling Tin
Lab 23: Recycling Street Signs
Lab 24: Mini Bolts for Jewelry
Lab 25: Pop Rivets
Lab 26: Tabs
Lab 27: Trapping Objects
Soldering
Lab 28: I’m with the Band (Ring)
Lab 29: Stop, Dap, and Trap
Lab 30: Sweat Soldering
Lab 31: Hollow Forms from Domes
Lab 32: Round Bezels
Lab 33: Square Bezels
Lab 34: Simple Hinge
Using Color on Metals
Lab 35: Home Ammonia Patinas
Lab 36: Colored Pencil on Metal
Lab 37: Peanut Oil Patina
Lab 38: Contrasting Finishes
Lab 39: Flame Patina on Copper
Lab 40: Torch-Fired Enamel
Findings
Lab 41: Simple Chain
Lab 42: Bails
Lab 43: Toggles
Lab 44: Hooks and Ear Wires
Alternative Methods and Materials
Lab 45: Faux Concrete
Lab 46: Plastic Alteration
Lab 47: Plasti Dip
Lab 48: Trapping Felt and Fabric
Lab 49: Moss in Jewelry
Lab 50: Using Sausage Casings
Lab 51: Sewing and Embroidery
Lab 52: Vegan Ivory
Glossary
Helpful Charts
Resources
Acknowledgments
About the Author