Customer Reviews

Electroforming (Jewellery Handbooks)

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This is an excellent updated text for the practical use of electroforming. Chemistry and complex interactions are explained using simple terminology. Advice for the setup and maintennance of bath and materials is quite thorough. If you are an artist looking to build and/or use electroforming, this is the book for you. If you are a metalsmith and educator this is a must-buy.

This book is something of a teaser! I have a strong interest in electroforming, but I didn't feel as satisfied with the information presented. It seemed a bit lacking, at least from the point of view of a beginner.

Two issues: I have little genuine chemistry background. If you need something step by step and are not a chemistry whiz, you're likely to have a hard time following things. The other issue is that the book is from the UK. All measures, etc are in metric, which isn't such a problem until your sorry un-chemist self is trying to muck through both technical talk AND unit conversions. Also, the [lovely] list of suppliers in the back of the book is, naturally, for UK/overseas businesses. I can't afford that shipping!

Overall, I don't take much issue with the information presented. It's interesting and helps you to understand the process and how much equipment can be required. Since I lack in solid chemistry and metric skills though, this is one of those books that I've read and put on the bookshelf. I don't find myself referring to it ever.

Anybody feel motivated to do a step by step US book on Electroforming? Maybe if I ever get the equipment together to try it, I'll write one.

Electroforming is an area that isn't represented well in jewelry/metalsmithing books. I was interested in this book because it was devoted to the subject, but the image quality is poor and it could use some more inspiring examples.