Student of the Week: Leah Becker

June 28, 2010

Our latest Student of the Week: Leah Becker.This piece showcases a technique becoming more and more popular with the price of gold being what it is :Marriage of Metals. In this case Leah choose to use a sterling silver shank along with her 22k bezel. I love gold and silver together and often the most […]

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Student of the Week: Chaya Feingold

June 22, 2010

This relatively simple piece illustrates how much goes into something simple.  Chaya had to cut, fit and fuse her bezel, solder it down to a backsheet, then cut ,file and sand. She had to cut, file , bend, saw, and solder her shank closed. She then had to size and true up her shank and […]

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Student of the Week: Sandi K. Lehmann

June 15, 2010

Every week I have the pleasure of choosing Student of the Week. It surprises me how many jewelers don’t (or can’t) take pictures of their work. I end up taking most of the Student of the Week photos, which I enjoy immensely. Unless or until we can all afford a professional photographer, we must learn […]

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Soldering Urban Legends

June 15, 2010

How many times have you read and heard that for the solder to flow the WHOLE piece must get equally hot? I have read it in every otherwise excellent book on Jewelry-making. The great advantage of teaching at JAI all these 18 years is that I have seen soldering done thousands and thousands of times […]

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