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Jewelry MakingThe Ganoksin project provides a variety of quality services for the gem and jewelry community. We work hard to maintain the high standards of our services for the benefit of our visitors. Our services are provided free of charge and to the benefit to all.

Ganoksin is dedicated to serve the information needs of the world's jewelers. It is our mission to educate, improve working conditions and facilitate sharing between goldsmiths globally. Ganoksin continues improving access to information for productivity, safety, skills and education of all jewelers, professionals and hobbyists.

Ganoksin maintains a substantial library of articles, publications, reports, and technical data on gem and jewelry related topics; many of which were authored by some of the most esteemed writers within their respective fields. In addition, this site contains a sizable collection of art and jewelry galleries, for both the casual visitor and the professional.

Ganoksin also provide members blogs and forums for the exchange of information and opinion; with contributors from all over the world speaking from a wide range of technical and aesthetic experiences, covering a full range of topics of interest to the jeweler and the gemologist.
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Featured Articles

Gemstone Coloration and Dyeing - The Greens - By George W. Fischer

It seems that everyone likes the greens in chemically colored gemstone. Probably this is because greens are almost universally pleasing to the eye. No doubt this accounts for the great popularity of naturally green gemstone such as jade, chrysoprase, emerald, malachite, etc. Fortunately, there are...

Tags: | Gemstone Coloration and Dyeing |

Etching Options for Champleve - By Coral Shaffer

I have found through may research on metal etching that there is a plethora of information out there. I hope by compiling it and offering it to you, you will be better able to choose the best option for your champleve needs. There are of course means other than etching to prepare a surface for...

Tags: | Etching | Champleve |

Contemporary Japanese Jewellery - By Janet Koplos

Contemporary Japanese Jewellery, In order to introduce largely unknown contemporary Japanese jewelry to the West, British jeweler Simon Fraser, working with the advice of Toyojiro Hida, then a curator at the Crafts Gallery of the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, organized a traveling...

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Samuel Yellin - Sketching in Iron - By Anna Fariello

By the mid-nineteenth century, European ironwork was in decline due to innovations brought about by the Industrial Revolution. Cast iron was replacing the more time-consuming and skillfully made hammered iron, driving the decorative smith toward extinction. A French historian wrote that the last...

Tags: | Features |

The Silicates - An Introduction - By Edna B. Anthony

Silicates comprise about a quarter of the known minerals and almost 40% of the common ones. The basic unit of structure of all silicate crystals is the tetrahedron. There are four oxygen atoms, one located at each apex of a regular tetrahedron. A single silicon atom is located at the center of the...

Tags: | Gemstones Information |



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Member's Galleries


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The Gallery section features a collection of representative works in a variety of media by Ganoksin members

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Organize Your Wolf Tools
Posted: 11/07/2009

Do you have a can (or four) of Kate Wolf’s wax carving tools? Do you teach?  Do you need to make sure you have as many tools at the end of the night as you did at the beginning?  Do you have a laser cutter?  (Well why not??)  If so, this post’s for you. The short form [...]

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A Bangle, A Pendant, An Exibition and the Dino War Machine
Posted: 11/07/2009

Here is a nice bangle I made on commission for a lady from Scotland. Set with a Nigerian blue tourmaline that I cut last year. She also bought the blue tourmaline that I posted on in my last post, so they go nicely together. We don’t get many Scottish people on the island, mostly Americans. Just got [...]

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Posted: 11/07/2009

A recent post from Kevin Kelly regarding an American law for a bloggers requirement to divulge receiving free products was the inspiration for this endorsement and blog entry. I probably wouldn’t have made my comments to Orchid readers as this is a lapidary related product and will probably be of little interest to the [...]

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Wire
Wire Hinges

luis moreno demonstrates how to create wire hinges

By: luis_f_moreno

Tages:
|silver |wire |hinges |
Pipe/
Pipe

models of pipe...,and water pipe

By: luis_f_moreno

Tages:
|silver |
Lily
Lily Necklace -...

how it's made a one of a kind beautiful necklace with floral motif (lily) using tubes and gold sheet . hand made.

By: skilman

Tages:
|yellow |gold |tubes |lily |diamonds |necklace |jewelry |flowers |handmade |art |skill |



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