From creating trouble-free master models to building uniform trees to proper techniques for investing, burnout, and breakout, this book will show you how to achieve smooth, porosity-free castings. Also included are guides to stone-in-place casting; casting over 500 grams of platinum on one tree; and casting nickel-free white golds. "Thank you for the best casting book on the market today! The AJM Guide to Lost-Wax Casting addresses every aspect of the casting process, with a comparison of methods and materials that points out the best techniques to use for the desired results. This book is now the standard text for our advanced class in casting—it’s an invaluable tool." Shannon Calloway, Instructor, Texas Institute of Jewelry Technology, Paris, Texas

Volume Two in the "Orchid in Print: Maximum Bench Work" series, published in collaboration with The Ganoksin Project. In The Jeweler’s Bench Book, acclaimed metalsmith Charles Lewton-Brain offers expert advice on how you can choose the bench that best meets your needs—then modify it for maximum efficiency. With plentiful full-color illustrations, The Jeweler’s Bench Book covers everything from the basics of bench design to ingenious tips for tool storage and arrangement. It also includes real-life examples of how renowned jewelers have set up their own bench areas.

More ideas and insights for selecting the products and services to ensure success! This new edition features tool and equipment checkpoints to take the guesswork of your next investment; guides to ensuring a smooth a safe working relationship with your subcontractor; an in-depth look at how refiners process and analyze samples; guides to selecting alternative metals and findings; and an extensive glossary of bead-related terms and techniques.

Enjoy stress-free setting! Featuring more than 100 full-color photos, this book provides the information you need to avoid damaging expensive—sometimes irreplaceable—gems. Common gemstone enhancements and treatments. How specific gems react to pressure. How to design and modify jewelry to accommodate a gem’s characteristics. "Tools that Rule": What every jeweler needs close at hand. Charts on how stones react to abrasives, chemicals, and heat. Advice on proper care and cleaning methods. "Every major gemstone typically used in the jewelry industry is covered in this book, making it a fine resource for the beginning bench jeweler as well as anyone doing repair check-in at a retail store…In addition, some seldom-seen stones are included, making it a good reference for experienced jewelers." Mark Maxwell, Gems & Gemology, GIA

The PDF publication contains the best of past MJSA Journal and MJSA Custom Jeweler articles on this perennially popular subject, offering strategies for pricing both finished jewelry and repair work. The Handbook include best practices for cost accounting (including a step-by-step guide to factoring in overhead costs, one of the most-overlooked areas in pricing); pricing uniqueness in a design, including custom work; and turning a repair operation into a profit center. It also provides successful strategies developed by working designers and jewelers, such as Susan Helmich, Mark Morrell, and David Geller. MJSA members: To download the handbook, click on the "More Info" button below and follow the download instructions. You will need your member login code and password.

This hard-cover book is a revised and expanded edition of Alan Revere's classic Professional Goldsmithing, offering additional projects, scores of new color photos--more than 800 total--and a crisp new layout. What hasn't changed is the original edition's precise instruction, which brought traditional European trade education to the United States for the first time. "The most significant contribution to jewelers' and goldsmiths' literature in decades. Bravo!"--Charles Lewton-Brain. Special 30% Discount Available to MJSA Members!