Jewelry-Making Guide: A Comprehensive Guide to Gemstone Setting Styles & Techniques

ZackryB: This book is amazing for any jeweler, beginning or established. It's essentially a textbook for making jewelry, with step-by-step diagrams, in-depth explanations, as well as hints, tips, and safety points. As a jeweler myself, I can't recommend this book highly enough, it's easily one of the best purchases I've made on Amazon, period.

United States on Oct 25, 2023

Christiane Ellis: Great book will be helpful and fast delivery thanks

Australia on Oct 24, 2023

Michelle Alexander: The bill and content were great. Unfortunately the book smelled like it was doused in cologne. I had to remove the cover and it resides outside.

United States on Jul 24, 2023

Emma M.Emma M.: Full of interesting information, it's a worthwhile purchase.
The only thing is that it arrived with a very damaged corner, and the only solution was the refund, but I think it's gonna be the same with another book bc it's only protected with air bags.

Mexico on Jul 07, 2023

Anya M.: I bought this in 2013 and put it on the shelf. Fast forward to 2021 when I'm finally setting up a bench at home and starting to plan projects. I'm full of MY OWN ideas and I want basic guidelines on how to execute them. Most online tutorials and even jewelry metalsmithing classes want you to start out making their projects, and they are mostly similar to each other. I've done that, gone through those steps. Now I want to make my own designs but can't find easy basic info on techniques. Luckily I remembered about this book, pulled it out... and VOILA! Answers! So, so many techniques explained clearly. I'm off to make the ring from page 118 :))) It's not terribly complex, but it's precisely, precisely what I was looking for. Very happy.

United States on Nov 05, 2021

OnlineMomOnlineMom: Beautiful pieces! Very artistic. I've been making basic jewelry for about 5 years. This book is a step up in skill level. There are some things I can see in the photos that are not described because it assumes you would know... but i do not. Like what you need to do to hold a tiny crown setting while you cut and file it... it looks like you need to make your own wooden tools. There is brief mention in the tips chapter but not enough. I wish there were less coverage of basics and more expanded detail on the tips chapter. There are only 2 pages on channel settings so I will still probably have to check YouTube for expanded how to details. That said, I love the beautiful projects; it will be useful in advancing my jewelry skills.

United States on Jan 07, 2018

Kindle Customer: This is an amazing book that goes so much more in depth in stone setting than anything i have come across before. I love this book but i do wish it had gone more in depth with bead and pave setting. There is excellent instruction on how to do the actual setting for pave settings but very little in graver sharpening and the angles needed to hone your gravers. I find myself very reluctant to spend money on gravers and handles sharpening stones and sharpening guides because there isn't much info on how precisely to sharpen the gravers before using them. They don't come presharpened and I personally need to feel confident that i will be able to figure it out successfully before i make that investment. Other than that, this book is absolutely a home run and my favorite book purchase yet!

Canada on Jul 27, 2016

Antje Reinhardt: Ich kann mich den vorigen Rezensionen nicht anschließen.

In meinem Buch finden sich reihenweise unscharfe Abbildungen. Es gibt sogar verpixelte Bilder! Der Fokus liegt nicht auf der Vermittlung der gezeigten Technik sondern auf dem Zeigen fertiger Schmuckstücke. Viele Schmuckstücke zeigen Fassungsvarianten die nicht näher erklärt werden. Die Bilder der viel zu kurzen Anleitungen am unteren Seitenrand sind durch die Bank weg sehr klein und oftmals nur halb so groß wie das abgebildete Schmuckstück darüber. Man kann oft genug nicht wirklich erkennen was genau dargestellt wird.

Noch dazu ist die Qualität der gezeigten Arbeiten höchst unterschiedlich. Die vorgestellten Körner- und Paveefassungen sind beispielsweise unsauber gearbeitet. Die Behandlung von Kanalfassungen ist oberflächlich, unvollständig und unnötig kompliziert. Es würde vieles vereinfachen wenn man diese Fassungsform ausdrücklich als Sonderform der eingeriebenen Fassung betrachtet hätte. Stattdessen wird ein außen angelötetes Blech umgeklappt um die Steine zu halten. Umständlicher geht es nicht! Das Legen von kanalgefaßten Mosaikflächen fehlt gänzlich. Auf die Möglichkeit Zähne oder...

Germany on Nov 11, 2013

L Peters: The book is useful and has quite a lot of settings to get you going. I was disappointed to find the channel setting I was after was not covered in detail (just a few line drawings in a window). The false channel was covered quite well but I am still none the wiser as to how to cut a real channel setting..hohumm.

My real gripe is that the book The Guide to Gemstone Settings: Styles and Techniques, although similar in title...different date, different cover...is actually the same book in paperback. I nearly bought it thinking it may have more techniques not covered in the hardcover. I also had a problem with Steven O'keffe's book '...tips and tricks...'I was stupid enough to buy...twice...same book, different dates and different enough cover, tiltle etc. thinking it was an updated version with new tips from the 2009 issue. Come on Amazon..please don't do this, as I am not the only one...see comments... get the hardcover and softcover cross referenced so people like me, can at least refrain from becomming excited about another book by the same author

United Kingdom on Jun 18, 2013

CP in texas: I received this book two days ago, and it has been such a pleasure to read it. I am sure this is now one of my favorite jewelry books. It has beautiful pictures, and the content is just perfect for my necessities at a very good price. This is the book I was looking for, since I realized my attraction for gemstone setting. It is not a beginner metalsmithing book, and I am glad, there is some information about the basic techniques, but it is not the repetitive pattern used on most books with 1/3 of the content describing the same very basic information. I like the chapter covering the gemstones types, it has beautiful pictures and excellent description, however I wished it was included pricing information, to compare them with some cost information. The techniques described are just what I want to learn, and the author selected beautiful and very convenient pieces that appealed my taste and show how the technique can create a beautiful piece of art. I really love the examples used, and the gallery used in this book. Even though I can understand the techniques, I wished it was included a little more in-depth detailed description for the more advanced techniques. In general I...

United States on Mar 16, 2012