Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist

In every issue of Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist you’ll get hands-on expertise, illustrated demos, and projects loaded with valuable tips and design ideas to inspire your own metal jewelry designs. Plus our experts answer all your technical questions, and you’ll learn the pros’ favorite tools and how to use them.

To Gigs … and Martians?

Design Challenges

Letters

Next Time

Their Turn • a gallery of this issue’s contributors

Working Under a Microscope • Grant Robinson’s exquisite jewelry on an exquisitely small scale demands serious optical aid

Gimme Shelter • How to find the best deals on the show circuit

Great Create • Plan, sketch, test and lay out: tools to make designing jewelry better

Graph It! • Simplify your piercing projects with graphic transfer sheets

It’s All on the Wrist • How to convert a stone bangle into a bracelet that easily goes on and off

A Finishing Jewel • Finish metal, stone, glass, and more, all with one machine: the JoolTool

Golden Cinnamon • Hessonite garnet’s warm, earthy colors look great on their own or add a delicious pop to other stones

Hidden Catch • Make a leaf form bracelet and clasp using springy new EZ 960 sterling clay and garnets

Learn from My Mistakes • The operation was a success but the patient died.

Clasp for a Springy Bracelet

More than a Skin of Paint • Enameling jewelry is challenging enough, but these three artists meld glass onto their highly 3D metal forms

Guinevere’s Lament • Conjure up the romance of the Arthurian legend with this flowery pendant

Keum Boo

Exotics Rising • Designers tap a wide range of often lesser known gems based largely on color

Quilling Reborn • A Renaissance paper art adapted to silver jewelry through the modern medium of metal clay

More Shapes • ONCE YOU’VE CREATED YOUR COILS AND SECURED THE ENDS, YOU CAN MAKE A VARIETY OF SHAPES.

Supporting Star • Create a toggle set with a stone that works equally well as a secure finding and a decorative focal

Prehistoric Winner • Make a brass and bronze bracelet featuring the battering ram ancestor with the hardest head

Ancient Beach Memento • Get those seashells out of that box and make something beautiful with them — like this fossil Anadara pendant!

Shape a Shell Cabochon • Special considerations for the lapidary when cutting fossil shell

Orchestrated Spontaneity • Apply fusing techniques to sterling wire and sheet for unique designs with a signature look

Facets • news & product innovations

focus on … education

Kevin O’Grady