METAL ARTIST'S WORKBENCH : DEMYSTIFYING THE JEWELER'S SAW

Get to know the most diverse tool on your workbench—the jeweler's saw!

Metal Artist's Workbench is your comprehensive guide for creating jewelry and other sawn projects by getting to know the jeweler's saw. Your personal instructor—veteran artist Thomas Mann—is eager to teach you everything you need to know about this well-loved tool.

Following exercises designed to get you "sawing in the zone," you'll be inspired to try your hand (and saw) at any of the 15 stepped-out projects, such as the Light Switch Plate, Chef's Knife Pendant, Self-Portrait Pin or Maze Pendant.

With Metal Artist's Workbench, you'll acquire the skill set to create impressive projects and learn:

• The anatomy of the jeweler's saw and how each part helps improve your sawing success
• The importance of sawing ergonomics and how the proper grip contributes to the "Whole Body Experience"
• Sawing techniques such as starting a cut, turning a corner, piercing and several trouble-shooting tips
• How to create beautiful projects from metal, plastic, wood and paper and more!

Start "Sawin' Where Y' at" today and learn how to make the jeweler's saw your favorite tool on the bench!

ABOUT AUTHOR -

A professional artist for over 40 years, Thomas Mann is best known for his "Techno-Romantic" style of jewelry, which juxtaposes contemporary technology and construction techniques with historical romantic imagery. Thomas has appeared on NPR's Talk of the Nation, PBS's Nightly Business Report, and, most recently was featured in PBS's award-winning series, Craft in America. Thomas has expanded his role as a veteran professional artist to include a focus on education through his educational brand, studioFLUX. Thomas Mann lives in New Orleans, LA.

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MAKING WIRE JEWELRY: 60 EASY PROJECTS IN SILVER, COPPER AND BRASS

No soldering required! Create 60 handcrafted wire jewelry pieces from step-by-step illustrations with handy material lists, hints and suggestions.

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MAKING DESIGNER JEWELRY FROM HARDWARE, GEMS, AND BEADS

Interest in beading and jewelry-making continues to grow. Making Designer Jewelry from Hardware, Beads, and Gems offers DIY crafters and jewelry-makers a fun, funky approach to jewelry constructed from not only glass beads, pearls, and semi-precious gemstones, but shows how to incorporate simple stainless steel, aluminum, copper, brass and tin hardware, such as nuts, bolts, washers, and tubing, into stunning, innovative, and modern jewelry pieces.

Using hardware in jewelry has become popular, and features an aesthetic twist that mixes "high" and "low" --inexpensive and common metal hardware with favorite bead-store jewels.

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HARDWEAR : JEWELRY FROM A TOOLBOX [ HARDCOVER ]

There is a new population of crafters out there: independent, innovative, and fearless, they thrive on making something out of nothing and are far more interested in showing off their style than their money. Their spirit of do-it-yourself iconoclasm is perfectly captured in Hardwear, a fascinating new book by industrial designer Hannah Rogge that presents 24 striking, easy-to-make pieces of jewelry fashioned from nuts and metal washers, S hooks and O rings, rubber sheeting and rubber tubing, and other inexpensive, readily available hardware.

Most of the projects for necklaces, bracelets, and earrings featured in this unique and unexpected book can be completed in just a few hours, and all of them can be made on a minimal budget. The book is divided, like the aisles of a hardware store, into chapters according to the particular pieces of hardware employed. And lest readers confuse Hardwear with any other craft book on the shelf, its rectangular shape and metallic cover resemble the geometric structure and hard casing of an actual toolbox. Hardwear is sure to inspire crafters everywhere to view their local hardware store in an entirely new light.

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