Nationally recognized woodturner Judy Ditmer shares her techniques for making beautiful, fanciful jewelry on the wood lathe. Beginning with the turning of tiny "bowls" by hand from a variety of wood, she then cuts and sands them into various shapes, producing graceful compound curved edges and surfaces. They are finished and assembled with findings, wires, and beads of silver, glass, or stone. The result is beautiful, unique jewelry. Judy takes the turner step-by-step through the process of creating this wearable art form. Each step is illustrated with a color photograph and captioned in a concise and informative way. Novice and experienced turners alike will enjoy and profit from her insights and secrets. An extensive gallery of finished works, touches upon the infinite varieties of forms and combinations this jewelry can take.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Earrings & Pins: Easy, Fun and Unique,
By lisa@gr.hp.com (Fort Collins, CO) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Turning Wooden Jewelry (Schiffer Book for Woodworkers) (Paperback)
64 pages, full color, 20 page gallery. Step by step color photos w/ instructions for making earrings and pins. Judy's basic idea is turn a shallow/thin bowl, saw it into pieces on the scroll saw, sand the edges on a spindle sander, decorate the pieces with paint (optional). Add jewelry findings and jewelry making beads, with one or more of the wooden pieces to create earrings and pins. I love doing this, it's easy, fun and the earrings don't even have to be duplicates. What a great idea.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Poorly organized, unedited one-trick pony,
By Norm C "Norm C" (Raliegh, NC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Turning Wooden Jewelry (Schiffer Book for Woodworkers) (Paperback)
Sorry, but the description indicated this would be about jewelry making on the lathe. Instead it is a poorly organized series of photos and captions showing one artist's one technique for making one item: pie-shaped earings. This tale cold be told in a one-sheet: Turn a series of small, concave plates. Cut them into varying pies shapes & curves. Glue them back together in funky ways with earing posts. That's it. There is no more. Read it in one siting and returned it the next day. Trying another author on this subject and hoping for more depth & ideas.
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