Jewelry Manufacture & Repair - Rilegato

Jarvis, Charles A.

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ISBN 10: 0719800528 ISBN 13: 9780719800528

Casa editrice: Robert Hale Ltd, 1997

Riassunto

This book begins with the basics on jewellry makinghow to organize your workshop, what tools and equipment you will need, and the different types of metals with which you will be working. There is a comprehensive chapter on the basic techniques of metal working, and then the author describes how to make specific items. He also discusses the mass production of "goldware" ringswedding and signets, the making and decorating of shanks and shoulders, and the ornamenting of large bezels. There are chapters on brooches, earrings, necklaces, and bracelets which detail additional techniques such as safety hinge and pin making, earrings, clips and screws, and frames for double-clip brooches. Finally, the book describes the allied techniques of polishing, setting, and finishing which bring the mount to its final appearance.

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L'autore:

Charles A. Jarvis was apprenticed to the Birmingham firm of Payton Pepper & Sons when he left school. Some years later he joined the Metropolitan Police force, in which he served about 10 years. At the outbreak of war he joined the RAF and became a pilot; he was invalided out of the servies in 1945 and returned to his original career. He joined Bostock & Rainer of Hatton Garden, London, as a member of their workshop and rose rapidly to become foreman. In 1961 he was made managing director of Bostock & Rainer's new company in Haverhill, Suffolk, which original traded as Fine Metals & Centrifugal Castings Ltd, but later changed its name to Bostock & Rainer (Haverhill) Ltd.

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• Editore: Robert Hale Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0719800528
• ISBN 13: 9780719800528
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 224