Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist, April 2011 Digital Edition

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Learn the differences among jewelry torches and fuels and the flames they produce. Share what you know about jewelry making with others in online tutorials as a way of driving traffic to your online jewelry store. Make a dynamic, hinged silver pendant and learn to set faceted stones in your own cabochon, or use a purchaed one.  Learn how to form metal with metal and non-metal stakes and how to create fabulous texture while making an elegant silver cuff. Find out why top jewelry designers are working with fossil ivory and learn how to stabilize this material for bead making, plus see what one lapidary and goldsmith is doing with agate fossils.  Create an open design in silver for a saw-pierced silver and turquoise tile bead bracelet and learn how several jewelry artists use this technique to create interesting designs.  Create wonderfully graphic designs using low-tech etching techniques. Learn how one of the most famous jewelry design houses ever developed its reputation for technical mastery and innovative design.