Current Issue

March 2010
Issue #33
Features
What is Shibuichi?
Shibuichi (shee-boo-EE'-shee): An ancient copper-and-silver alloy that gives jewelry makers the chance to play with colorful patinas.
• Online Extras! Learn how to make your own metal ingots.
• Making your own metal? Use our online alloy calculator to instantly determine your own shibuichi ratios!
By Lee Rumsey Haga
Step Up Your Metal Clay Skill Set
Improve your craft à la carte in this technique-packed earring project.
By Deb Fitz
Make Quick Coil-Wrapped Links
Grab a pair of forming pliers and complete this bracelet in one afternoon.
By Sharilyn Miller
Shibuichi Cuff: An Exercise in Riveting
Learn how to make decorative rivets while working with this uncommon alloy.
By Addie Kidd
At Terri McCarthy Studios, Practice Jewelry Making from the Inside Out
An ever-expanding group of devoted jewelry students find a home away from home in Terri McCarthy's two-room studio in small-town Wisconsin.
•Online Extra! See a gallery of jewelry from students at Terri McCarthy studios.
By Kristin Sutter
Online Project: Take a Basic Metal clay Lentil Pendant to New Levels
Learn how to add texture, a recessed bezel-set cabochon, and keum-boo accents to a lentil form in this intermediate metal clay tutorial.
By Deb Fitz
Departments
From the Editor: Hazel Wheaton
Taking the leap: how education prepares us for taking professional, personal, and creative leaps.
Contributors: About Our Artists
Our artists share the most valuable advice they ever got from a teacher.
Reader Forum
We share your thoughts and questions.
Reviews
  • For a treasure of a book on chasing and repoussé, look no further than Nancy Megan Corwin's Chasing and Repoussé: Methods Ancient and Modern
Metalsmithing 101 by Michael David Sturlin
Files 101: Studio workhorses.
• Online Extra! Learn even more about files in our "Profiling Files" article.
Stone Sense by Richard M. Shull G.G.
Turquoise: One of the most imitated stones.
Studio Savvy by Christopher C. Darway
Measure for measure.
Business Savvy by Marlene Richey
Part-time Teaching: Pay it forward and boost business.
Gallery
A collection of pieces to intrigue and inspire you
A Conversation with Alison Lee
The founder and host of Craftcast.com talks about new formats for online education, a history of reaching out that goes back to Girl Scouts, and fixing a Rockette’s zipper.
Basics
See demonstrations and definitions of beginning jewelry-making techniques needed for projects in this issue.
•Online Extras! Check out our jewelry-making tutorials and videos on basic techniques for metal, metal clay, wirework, polymer clay, enamel, and more! Also, find out what tools and supplies you should have in your jewelry-making toolbox.
Contacts & Suppliers
Where to find the materials and tools used in this issue.
Beyond Jewelry
Rebecca Barton combines chasing and repoussé with beautiful patinas to make a copper tree stump … or is it?
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