{"id":473,"date":"2012-04-12T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/?guid=ca92bf9e60d2a2637ec3ceaa44f00973"},"modified":"2012-04-12T19:39:21","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T19:39:21","slug":"color-texture-casting-for-jewelers-by-carles-codina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/2012\/04\/12\/color-texture-casting-for-jewelers-by-carles-codina\/","title":{"rendered":"Color, Texture & Casting for Jewelers by Carles Codina"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Color, Texture & Casting for Jewelers: Hands-On Demonstrations & Practical Applications<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

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by Carles Codina<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Would you like to WIN this book?  Check out the contest on the Google+ Community Page – Jewelry Artisans, Designers, Metalsmiths<\/a> – QUICKLY…Kathleen may already have this!<\/i><\/b><\/span>

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If you are like me you were introduced to Carles Codina with his<\/span> <\/span>The Complete Book of Jewelry Making: A Full-Color Introduction to the Jeweler’s Art<\/a>…and let me say now – if you are just starting in the art of Jewelry Making, this is the book you want!<\/span>

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However, if you have scoured Codina’s first book cover to cover – then<\/span> <\/span>Color, Texture & Casting for Jewelers: Hands-On Demonstrations & Practical Applications<\/a> <\/span>is your natural next step.<\/span>

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This book is structured to teach – it covers a technique and then it offers a project so you get a “practical application” of the technique.<\/span>

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…and it covers some of the oldest and most used techniques in Jewelry Design: Keum Boo – Granulation – Mokume Gane – Plating and one I had never tried…Melted Filings (Brilliant!). It is filled with full color photos and easy to follow instructions.<\/span>

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That alone would make the $30 price reasonable but Codina also cover almost every type of what he calls Artisanal Casting you could need (Sand Casting – Cuttlebone Casting – Ceramic Coatings) – including building your own crucible for the “Casting in a Closed Crucible” chapter. <\/span>

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Also included are Patinas and textures along with great Wax and Micro Casting tips.<\/span>

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Codina hits a Grand Slam with this one…<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Disclaimer:  Thank you to the good folks at Lark Crafts for sending a Review Copy!<\/span>

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Color, Texture & Casting for Jewelers: Hands-On Demonstrations & Practical Applicationsby Carles CodinaWould you like to WIN this book?  Check out the contest on the Google+ Community Page – Jewelry Artisans, Designers, Metalsmiths – QUICK…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,429,480,47,479,484,138,458,483,481,482],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/flyviewsandreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}