John Shanahan

Contributions From John Shanahan

Settin’ Pretty

Settin’ Pretty

Ask any experienced jeweler, and they’ll tell you: it takes stones to become a gem setter. You literally have to...
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Techniques for Popular Finishing Touches

Techniques for Popular Finishing Touches

Precious metals are beautiful on their own, from the rich glow of yellow gold to the dense white of platinum—and...
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Plique-a-Jour Pictorial

Plique-a-Jour Pictorial

This article Amy Roper Lyons offers two things: a Plique-a-Jour pictorial and three safety tips when handling or working with...
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Enameling Care and Considerations

Enameling Care and Considerations

The primary reason designer Amy Roper Lyons of Summit, New Jersey, began working in enamels is fairly black and white:...
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MJSA Custom Jeweler – Brenda Smith

MJSA Custom Jeweler – Brenda Smith

An Uncustomary Request - Creative freedom and some unusual pearls helped create an award-winning necklace by Brenda Smith. Let’s say...
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Ricardo Basta – Top Flight

Ricardo Basta – Top Flight

Ricardo Basta Ricardo Basta Fine Jewelry Los Angeles First Place, CAD/CAM Distinction Ricardo Basta believes in melding traditional jewelry-making techniques...
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Adam Neeley – Alluring Curves

Adam Neeley – Alluring Curves

Adam Neeley Adam Neeley Fine Art Jewelry Laguna Beach, California First Place, Laser Distinction Look back over the list of...
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Tips & Techniques for Popular Finishing Touches

Tips & Techniques for Popular Finishing Touches

We asked a number of top jewelers to tell us their best practices, techniques, and tips for creating satin, brushed,...
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Victoria Lansford on the Art of Filigree

Victoria Lansford on the Art of Filigree

Victoria Lansford on the art of filigree—Russian or otherwise BOX: The Art of Handcraft Every jewelry designer can pinpoint the...
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CAD Repair Programs for Unprintable Files

CAD Repair Programs for Unprintable Files

Using CAD repair programs to save unprintable files You spend hours creating a custom piece in CAD for one of...
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2 Successful Stone Setting Tips

2 Successful Stone Setting Tips

Ask any experienced jeweler, and they'll tell you: it takes stones to become a gem setter. You literally have to...
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Jewelry Companies Help Save the Planet

Jewelry Companies Help Save the Planet

Green. What was once seen as a fringe-element rallying cry has grown into a planet-changing initiative that touches countless aspects...
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CAD Design Problems

CAD Design Problems

Making jewelry is the perfect confluence of art and science. It’s where aesthetic and inspiration meet application and practicality. Computer-aided...
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Successful e-Commerce Ventures

The ongoing debate over the necessity of e-commerce in the jewelry industry is coming to a close. From small shop...
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Faster, More Efficient Laser Welders

Faster, More Efficient Laser Welders

Since their introduction to the jewelry industry, laser welders have been lauded for their speed, accuracy, and convenience of use....
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Benchtop Hydroflux Welders

Connections are an important part of jewelry manufacturing. We make them with suppliers, with retailers, even with the people who...
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The TAO of Bur Goodtip

The TAO of Bur Goodtip

Bur Goodtip, a legendary bench jeweler shows how sometimes a tool is not just a tool... We are taking a...
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Working with White Gold

Working with White Gold

White gold jewelry is a hot fashion trend that does not show signs of cooling off any time soon. Manufacturers...
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The Orange Necklace by Chihiro Makio

The Orange Necklace by Chihiro Makio

One of the more difficult challenges Chihiro Makio of 314 Studio in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, faced when creating her Orange...
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The Work of Lisa Jenks

The Work of Lisa Jenks

Eighteen months ago, New York City-based designer Lisa Jenks began a partnership with Origins, the well-known skin care products store....
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Practical Approach to CAD/CAM

Once more the realm of engineers and number-crunchers, CAD over the years has become more user-friendly and artisan-intuitive. Similarly, small-shop,...
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Leila Tai – Plique-a-jour Delight

Leila Tai – Plique-a-jour Delight

Leila Tai of New York City will be the first person to tell you that in order to take on...
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CAD Craft In Ron Litolff’s Ring

CAD Craft In Ron Litolff’s Ring

To create a new ring to showcase the beauty of a customer's sentimental diamonds, Knoxville, Tennesseebased jeweler Ron Litolff of...
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