ANASTASIA YOUNG

Your go-to reference book

This comprehensive and ambitious workshop reference for jewelers brings
together a vast range of skills, techniques, and technical data in one
volume, to provide an essential look-it-up resource for both students and
professionals. The focus in The Workbench Guide to Jewelry Techniques
is on detailed explanation—with clear step-by-step photography.

All of the techniques demonstrated are illustrated with photographs

THE WORKBENCH
of remarkable cutting-edge jewelry pieces by jewelry designers and GUIDE TO
makers from around the world.

In addition to detailed explanations of jewelry techniques there is:

n an extensive directory of tools and materials
n a key to identify tools for a “beginner’s kit”
n a historical introduction to jewelry
n a guide to the design process and to photographing and
promoting your own work
n a comprehensive reference section with a directory of gems,
tool shapes, glossary, standard sizes and measurements,
conversion tables, and an extensive list of resources

The Workbench Guide to Jewelry Techniques covers traditional

metalsmithing skills and techniques for alternative materials, such as plastics
and resin in expert detail, as well as discussing issues such as the process of
outsourcing work to specialist external suppliers.
Anastasia Young is a practicing designer, jeweler, and
artist whose work has been exhibited internationally.
She is the author of The Jeweler's Technique Bible.
She is a graduate of the Royal College of Art, and
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
in London, where she now teaches the BA jewelry
design course.
Hardcover, 8 1⁄2 x 10, 320 pages
400 photographs, 200 illustrations,
100 charts
ISBN: 978-1-59668-169-9
$34.95
Available February 2010
Engraving • Chasing and repoussé • Fusing • Riveting • Enameling •
Drilling • Piercing • Filing • Annealing • Soldering • Pickling • Wire work
• Fold forming • Bending • Hammering • Cutting • Carving • Mounting
and setting stones • Polishing • Stamping • Doming/swaging • Forging
• Anticlastic raising • Hydraulic press • Wax carving and modeling •
Vulcanized rubber molds • Precious metal clay • Silicone • Casting
resin, ciment fondue, and porcelain • Plaster • Bending wood, horn,
and Perspex • Carving natural materials and wood • Textiles • Plastics
• Beads and pearls • Hinges • Findings • Catches • Chain • Etching •
Rolling mill textures • Hammer textures • Sandblasting • Frosting
wheel • Reticulation • Granulation • Anodizing • Tooling leather •
Patinas • Dyes • Laminating • Metallic powders • Gold leaf • Stone
setting templates • Inlay • Mokume gane • Bezel or tube settings •
Collet settings • Claw settings • Flush settings • Pave and grain
settings • Channel settings • Illusion settings • Spectacle settings •
Fancy settings • Stringing beads • Gemstones • Outwork • CAD/CAM