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Complete Metalsmith: Student Edition
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Additional Complete Metalsmith: Student Edition Information
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Students, hobbyists, and others just getting started in metalworking have turned to this informative, easy-access reference time and time again. Without getting bogged down in confusing details, it teaches them what they need to know about the most effective techniques for working with gold, platinum, copper, brass, steel, plaster, and more. In fact, it covers most of the same subjects as the professional version, only in a simpler fashion: metals, tools, surfaces, shaping, joining, casting, stones, and mechanisms. And, like the larger edition, it has a spiral spine and attractive color images throughout. Newcomers to the field will especially appreciate the safety tips and the many charts covering melting points, conversion, factors, and other fundamental knowledge.
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What Customers Say About Complete Metalsmith: Student Edition:
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The illustrations are particularly helpful. This book was recommended to me by several of my silversmithing instructors as the "go to book" to have. This would be very helpful in planning your metal purchases for each type of project. The only "ding" would be an addition of another section to discuss which silver gauges would best be suited for what projects. I have read it from cover to cover and back again. The information is consise and well organized for the beginner to advanced metalsmith.
this book gives very useful and relevant information that you need all the time so its handy format, smallish, is really good to slip into your toolbox.
Good basic primer for beginning jewelers or artists interested in the properties of the metals they work with and how to use those properties to create unusual art.
It is great for students who need ideas as well as the students who need help with the technical aspect of metalsmithing. All metal art classrooms should have this book. It goes into great detail of the many techniques that can be used when working in metal.
My instructor is not formal education oriented so we fumble through class and get his help as needed. I ordered the book later than I should have for my class but it only took a week to arrive. This book answered questions that I had and allowed me to understand and be able to accomplish projects that would have been difficult with help from my instructor. Sometimes he takes the project and completes it for us (we are not graded on what he finishes). Far less time than stated that it could. The book is very informative.
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