Summary
Jewellery Making for Profit
Author: James Hickling
Format: hardback, 175 pages
Retail price is £16.99. our price is £7.50
Contents
Workshop and equipment: polishing machine, rolling mill, grinder, drill press, guillotine, pinfold sizer, bench vice, fly press, lathe.
Materials: steel (hardening and tempering), copper (planishing, punching, engraving).
Speeding up production: (including machines you can buy, adapt or make yourself).
Review
This is not a 'learn to hand-make jewellery' book (which takes years to learn), neither does it expect you to spend several thousand pounds setting up a high-tech. workshop. Instead, it treads a fascinating middle ground: tools you can make or adapt yourself; how to make badges, brooches, bangles, rings etc by the hundred; how to produce small components by the thousand. It is full of invaluable advice for those who want to make simple jewellery, whether to sell to friends or from a market stall or online.