Jewelry Metals: A Guide to Working with Common Alloys, Book

With James Binnion as technical editor, MJSA created this guide for working with both precious and non-precious metals for jewelry making. Learn the characteristics of common alloys, and pick up valuable casting and bench working tips. Explore the intricacies of worknig with gold, silver, platinum and palladium and then expand your repertoire with non-precious metals instruction that includes aluminum, copper, stainless steel, niobium, titanium, cobalt-chrome and brass and bronze. A techniques chapter provides valuable step-by-step metal-working techniques, such as mokumé gané, chasing and granulation. You'll even learn to to manage metal scrap with industry standards and guidelines and an emphasis on rules and regulations.