How to make jewelry

Practical Instructions From A Practical Manufacturing Jeweler. (Review provided by "The Ganoksin Project")

This book was originally published in 1914, and republished in a second edition in 1920. It is composed of articles drawn from the Magazine "The Manufacturing Jeweler". At 240 pages of eclectic, informative articles it is a treasury of jewelers secrets and skillful working techniques. Tons and tons of information. This book is a real addition to your library: most of it is still essential today. There is so much cool information that this review is much longer than normal. This book answers many problems that all jewelers have today: it is very current in those terms.To give you an idea of the vast range of subjects covered here is a listing of the chapters. Most were written by Mr. Overton. Designing of Jewelry, Hints on Melting, The Alloying of Gold, Formulas for Alloys and Solders, Getting out Plating Stock, Wire Drawing and Working, Making of Solders, Solder and the Quality Stamp, The Soldering of Parts, Tips on Soldering and Stone Setting, Repairing Stone Set Work, Gilding with Electric Current, Red Gilding, Resists for Two-Color Work, Acid Coloring, Precautions in the Coloring Room, Silver and Its Alloys for Jewelry Work, Solutions for Silver Plating, Black and Gray Finishes on Silver, Gun Metal Finish, Silver as a Base for Black Enamel, Enameling of Jewelry, Enameling of Jewelry (Continued), The Melting of Platinum, Working in Platinum, Recovery of Gold and Silver from Scrap, Refining Polishing Sweeps, Filtration of Washings, Testing for Pure Gold, Keeping Track of Gold, Figuring Shop Costs, Reducing Labor Costs, Time and Labor Savers, Some Shop Problems, The Buying of Stones, Making Pearl Jewelry, Drilling Pearls for Stringing (illustrated), Ring Making'n Sizing and Soldering of Rings, Chain Making, Making Flower Work, Making a Line of Pins, Horseshoe Jewelry, The Maltese Cross in Emblems, Some Attractive Novelties, Making Eyeglass Frames, Hints