Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist, May/June 2011 Digital Edition

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Discover the 5 essential secrets to successful soldering and practice on 3 easy silver rings. Learn to set pearls with pegs in silver wire and sheet design for a pendant plus earrings – and find out why South Sea pearls enjoy such a great reputation. Find out how to make a corrugated copper pendant with a hydraulic press and how to corrugate metal with pliers and other hand tools, too. Shape a bargain bin agate slab into disks, drill them, and make silver hangers for a pair of dramatic earring – and learn why lapidaries love Montana agate. See what one faceter has learned about enhancing the color of tourmaline with heat treating, facet a tourmaline in the “Trillion Diamonds Barion” design, combine metal sheet, metal clay, and polymer clay in an exploration of jewelry designs, learn why Linked In is the social media site you can put on autopilot, and discover the outlandish jewelry designs of Salvador Dalì.