Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist, November 2017 Print Edition

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You?ll love this if:

• You want to learn about favorite jewelry-making tools for creating rings, pendants, and other pieces!
• You want to know why flame fusion rubies are inexpensive and so good looking.
• You want to learn to make fabulous jewelry designs ? rings, pendants, bracelets, and more.

In this issue of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist, renowned jewelry artist Kieu Pham Gray discusses her favorite jewelry-making tools ? and demos some of them in making a great pendant.. Helen Driggs discusses the best and latest ring-making tools. You?ll find out about the boom in jewelry stamping today, new stamps on the market, and how jewelry artists incorporate metal stamping in their designs. Plus artist Jeff Fulkerson shows you how to use a special jig that makes accurate stamping in triangle wire a snap as he walks you through an amazing stamped silver cuff. The Smokin? Stone for this issue is lab-created flame fusion ruby. No?l Yovovich uses these stunning stones in her pendant project ? which also teaches you bimetal etching. Our projects in the issue include Roger Halas?s Pi Silver Cuff, John Heusler?s Kingman Spider Turquoise and Silver Earrings, Denise Peck?s Embellished Stirrup Silver Earrings, and Michelle Brennan?s Captured Green Glass Chain Maille Bracelet. In addition, you?ll find out how gem artist Greg Genovese finds, cuts, and uses Brazilian drusy agate. And Deborah Yonick?s Trends column brings you the wonders of ?picture stones?.

Order your copy of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist, November 2017 today to:

• Discover 15 favorite jewelry tools.
• See what?s new in metal stamping and stamped jewelry designs.
• Explore flame fusion rubies and bimetal etching.
• Find out how a top gem artist finds and uses drusy agate from Brazil.
• Practice your jewelry-making techniques with projects from leading jewelry artists.
• Discover so much more!