Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist – September 2019

Jewelry Project FIT FOR A FINGER 4 Bake it according to the manu- facturer’s instructions. It should look something like this. 5 ...

10 Tip! It is virtually impossible to bring together a seam with a per- fectly continuous pattern or texture. If, like me, you a ...

Fire Up Your Passion for PMC with the Getting Started Precious Metal Clay Course Series! Follow along with expert Darlene Armstr ...

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OP EN IN G^ PH OT O: JI M^ LA W SO N; P RO CE SS P HO TO S:^ RO GE R^ H AL AS N O RULES DICTATE what is right or wrong or when i ...

TIME IT TOOK 2 hours SKILLS Basic metal fabrication Leather work MATERIALS 18 gauge brass sheet Alligator leather scrap Sterlin ...

OP EN IN G^ PH OT O: JI M^ LA W SO N; P RO CE SS P HO TO S:^ JE FF FU LK ER SO N S TARING AT THE JUNK in my bench drawer one day ...

SKILLS Sawing Filing Stamping Roller printing Soldering Cabochon setting TIME IT TOOK About 3 hours MATERIALS 1" x 3" 22 gauge ...

Jewelry Project CIRCLE OF LIFE 6 When it’s pretty close, you can solder the circle closed with hard solder. After it was soldere ...

ASSEMBLY Now it’s time to put it all together. 12 On the front of my inner circle, I marked where I was going to position the qu ...

PH OT O: B AD AH OS ;^ G ET TY IM AG ES A pprenticeship is the time-honored pathway to learning many crafts and trades. In Europ ...

the skills for one level and is ready for the next. Today’s remaining apprenticeships may vary as widely as the people off ering ...

Live It & Learn It project and conversation I have with customers and industry colleagues. I currently have an apprentice, a ...

from the book. To get by, Graham was waitressing, too. She was ap- prenticed for more than two years, and left only when she and ...

Live It & Learn It For fi ve hours a week, Grahl worked with Terranova with the goal of learn- ing pavé setting, a highly sp ...

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PH OT O: W ES TE ND 61 ;^ G ET TY IM AG ES “I t’s a perfect storm,” says jewelry designer, instructor, and author Nanz Aalund, a ...

and beyond, the traditional way to learn a craft was to apprentice to a master craftsman. Today, you can still fi nd traditional ...

State of the Art's Industry manufacturing company that had 30 years of uncatalogued rubber molds. There was no way to access the ...

structure to the apprenticeship. The apprentices don’t know what is expected of them, and neither they nor the jeweler know when ...