| Picture Yourself Making Jewelry and Beading (Picture Yourself) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Sandy Doell, Denise Etchison
Publisher: Course Technology PTR
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 729979
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 202
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 159863450X
Dewey Decimal Number: 739.27
EAN: 9781598634501
ASIN: 159863450X
Publication Date: December 31, 2007
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great Book for Metal Works Who Like Beads Too August 19, 2008
While the title includes the word "beading" and there are plenty of beads used in the project, I really saw this primarily as a metals fabrication book that included beads as accents. So, if you are looking for bead stringing instructions, you won't find it here. But, if you are interested in learning how to make simple metal components that you can combine with beads, then you won't be disappointed. See the rest of my review here: [...]
 basic metal fabrication February 8, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
First of all, despite the 3-star rating, this book is a keeper. Secondly, there is no stringing whatsoever in this book. The jewelry, which is mainly wire forming and forging and metal fabrication is actually quite attractive. Some projects use purchased chain. The introductory pages start with an overview of the tools needed which are basic hardware items found in the house: hammers, drill bits, pliers, steel wool, flexible metal ruler, sharpie, masking tape, file, safety googles, metal snips. The author encourages a "make do" attitude to help with creativity before purchasing more costly items required for metal jewelry. That means no flex shaft machine,jeweler's saw or tumblers yet. Not even rivets for cold connections, jump rings are used. In other words, see if this type of jewelry making appeals to you first.
There is no overview or guide to buying beads, wire, findings and sheet metal.
Most books have tutorials for the techniques to be used in the projects. The techniques required for this book are the simple loop, wrapped loop, using jump rings and using tin snips to cut metal. There aren't any instuctions for making your own jump rings, which are used in almost every project. (Well, actually there are but it's for "coil beads" for one of the projects. Snip the coil and you will have jump rings.)However, same instructions for opening and closing jump rings appear repeatedly throughout the book
The book delves into the first project, a pair of earrings, where instructions for the simple loop are given. Good imagery is provided in the well-written instructions. For example, in making the simple loop: ...similar to holding a bicycle handbar,... think of turning the ignition key to start your car).
This book needs a companion for reasons stated above. I think the best would be Stackpole's "Basic Jewelry Making" which as an excellent chapter on wire forming. The book recommend magazines such as Kalmbach's Art Jewelry and Interweave's Jewelry Artist (formerly Lapidary Journal)for inspiration. I would add Step by Step Wire also for furthur information on wire forging and simple metal jewelry.
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