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Complete Metalsmith: Professional Edition
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MSRP: $29.95
Your Price: $29.95
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Manufacturer: Davis
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Additional Complete Metalsmith: Professional Edition Information
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Spiral-bound to lie flat, and handsomely packaged with a rigid fabric cover and plastic band to hold sketches and notes, this information-packed technique source book is on every professional metalworker's must-have list. Filled with drawings and charts, it goes into incredible depth on every crucial topic: materials, tools, shaping, surfaces, joining, color, finishing, casting, stones and stonesetting, chains and clasps, and findings and mechanisms. Need details on bench accessories? Find out about bench pins and how to use them, squares, knives, scrapers, sanding boards, pliers racks, and more. Want to know about gems? A Gem Summary Chart gives the name, colors, cuts, hardness, and heat sensitivity of the top 50-and that's just the beginning. It's practically required reading for professionals!
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What Customers Say About Complete Metalsmith: Professional Edition:
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This was a gift for our daughter who had already chosen it on her wish list. She loves it. Best in the biz.
I think it is a bit dated in it's look, but it has some helpful info.
Additionally many of the methods and techniques described fit better in a basement crafter's arsenal than in a professional metal smith's shop. The Ugly: Because metal smithing goes beyond the simple jewelry making techniques and methods described in this book, Mr.
Overall it should probably be purchased by every hobbyist with an interest in working with metal in jewelry making. The Good: Complete Metalsmith by Tim McCreight is an excellent basic text for the beginner jewelry maker.
McCreight offers his readers. The Bad: Too much subject matter is condensed to a single page or even a single paragraph.
Topics such as gold leaf and its application and enameling are much more complex than the single page definitions Mr. McCreight chose a very misleading title for this book.
I read all of the reviews left by others who own this book and am just as happy as any of them.I was looking for a very detailed text and this is it.
This is a great reference book if you are starting out in metalsmithing. There is sufficient detail to use the book in many circumstances to complete a process or try a technique.keep your own notes from experiences.like a cookbook.
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