 |
|
Title: Jewelry Studio: Silver Wire Fusing (Jewelry Studio)
ISBN: 1596680660
Author:
Liz Jones
Publicate Date: 2008-04-01
Publish: 2008-04-01
List Price: $22.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
 |
|
|
|
|
Amazon Lowest New Price: $13.80
Amazon Lowest Used Price: $13.74
Amazon Merchant Price: $15.61
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Customer Review: |
|
1: A Beauty of a Book!
I have been wanting to take a class on fine silver wire fusing, but haven't been able to. After recieving this book, I just may not have to! A wonderful beginner's book, the directions are clear, accompanied by lots of color step-by-step photos. The explanation of tools needed, and work area set up, is well done, and can perhaps alleviate some of the fear of using a torch. The designs are beautiful, some simple, some a bit more advanced. I can see anyone use this book not only to learn fusing, but to improve on your skills. As one of my favorites, I would recommed this book to anyone. Well worth the money!
|
2: Great book for beginners
Got this for my creative mother for mother's day (she requested it) and want to buy one for myself now! Really neat book for beginners to learn techniques to begin this phase of jewelry-creating and several CUTE (not cheezy) projects to get started with!
|
3: Makes it look so easy!
Not a lot of projects, but some nice ones, all with color illustrations. Good coverage on use of tools.
|
4: Excellent Resource for Beginners
Silver Wire Fusing is an excellent book on the basics of silver fusing. I am new to this technique, but found the directions and photos in this book to be very helpful and straight forward. Liz Jones explains everything in detail and offers plenty of tips and tricks throughout the book. Her projects range from very easy to moderately difficult-anyone can learn to make beautiful silver jewelry with this book!
|
5: Filled a knowledge gap, found a favorite
Teaches you making your own ball-end head pins from wire, fusing rings closed, shaping them via hammer or pliers as you can see by the shapes on the cover, stamping "inspiration" links (my favorite find, I will upload a photo of that page in a moment), and it has some good info and tips along the way.
I gave it 4/5 stars because her suggested resources for fine silver wire only offer it in thickness up to 18 gauge - yet for her projects you frequently need thicker stuff. surepure.com is the website I found so far to get it... getting your metal will be pricier than the tools that's for sure!
And it tells you it has to be a pure metal to fuse, FINE silver, not sterling. To me the obvious question is "Ok, so can I fuse and practice with copper first to save a few bucks?" If the book gives you the ok or tips to try copper (or pure gold if you're a lotto winner), I could not find that information in here.
You'll need a kiln brick, torch, pliers, high-quality flush cutters, and fine silver wire to get started on basics. Steel bench block, hammer, metal stamps, and a tumbler if you want to get fancy and finish to perfection. I had everything but a tumbler, which I just picked up on ebay for less than $30. :)
Where I'm coming from FYI: I'm a beadweaver, chainmailler (jump ring weaving really), lampworker, and I've dabbled in wireworking. Somehow I missed trying fusing along the way so this book filled that gap nicely for me. I plan to make frames for my lampwork beads, and some funky links to insert in my chainmaille pieces.
|
|
|
|
|
