Customer Reviews

Jewelry Making for Schools, Tradesmen and Craftsmen

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This book is excellent, I have had trouble putting it down and getting down to some work. It gives lots of detail of how to do things and when I find something is not going right, I refresh my memory and find the correct way of doing it by looking through this book, having waited for this book some weeks and being unable to get it in the UK I found it well worthwhile.

This great old standard is a masterpiece of old fashioned straight talk. What I particularly like is that Bovin takes you along step by step, in an understandable manner. As you progress in skill the book gains in value because it is such a good reference book. ln fact it became a fixture in the shop. For my money, no matches for this book. I got my first copy in 1965, which I had to replace, due to age and damage inflicted by my 140+ students. My reccomendation is BUY IT!!! You won't regret it, I haven't..

Although this book is a little dated it is one of the best in sources for a novice who is learning to work with precious metals, especially silver. After years of use, it is still one of my "go to" metal working books. If I were teaching, this is the book I would choose for a "how to" text.

I am new to this craft and I was looking for a practical book that I could use as a complement to my classes. Since this is a very manual and tricky craft, it is hard to summarize so much knowledge and so many tricks into a book. I haven't found that book yet. I started buying books from Codina, McCreight and Brehpol among some other well know writers in the field. These books eighter didn't have enough pictures, were too over detailed in chemical formulas that are useless in the practice, over simplified in the explanaitions or rather incomplete in the details that I required or wanted.
This book has so far the best combination of theory, detail, practical tricks and pictures of all the ones that I've seen or bought.