Paraffin Wax Treatment

How to Create a Basic Link Chain

Step-by-Step Guide to Upsizing Rings

How to Make an Ionic Cleaner

Tips & Techniques for Popular Finishing Touches

Creating Equal Divisions in Stone Setting

Metalsmith ’84 Spring: Health Hazards Q&A’s

Metalsmith ’83 Summer: Health Hazards Q&A’s

A Metalsmith’s Guide to Los Angeles

Bench Tools for Jewelers

Jeweler’s Saw Blades: All The Different Sizes And How To Choose Correctly

International Ring Sizes Chart

Stone Setting Tips

Jewelry Making Bench Tips

Laser Welding Basics – Part 4

Basic Polishing Technique

Basic Milling Technique

CAD/CAM: The Basics

Jewellery Career Options

Chain Making Project

Jewellery Repair

Craftsmanship Improvement Method

Notes on Files for Jewelry Making

Jewelry Rendering Tools and Projects

Working Posture for Craftsmen

Dealing with Fire Scale

A Metalworking Hand Tool List For Beginners In Jewelry-Making

Notes on Presto-Lite Torch

A Pain In The Neck

Bench Trick Guiding Principles

Organize Your Workspace

Knowing the Difference Between Carat and Karat

How the Bracelet Got its Name

Basic Hinge Making Technique

Basic Jewelry Construction and Soldering Principles

Basic Optical Principles for Gemology

Basic Bead Setting Techniques

The Best Jewelry Books: A Comprehensive Reading List For Craftspeople

North American Sources for Equipment, Materials, etc.

Different Methods on How to Resize Rings

Rules for Tools

Basic Safety Principles for Jewelers

Dusts in the Jewelry Workshop

Noise and its Effects

Structuring for Efficiency in the Studio

Testing Precious Metals and Alloys

Separating Work and Home

Studio Lighting Considerations

Goldsmith Kit Basic Tools

Organize Your Bench

Bead Stone Setting – Bead It!

Methods of Closing Jump Rings

The Costs of Learning Hand Engraving

Simple Method of Forming Jump Rings

Setting a Stone with Cold Connections

Anticlastic Raising Basics

Perfect Finishing Tools and Techniques

Set Up Your Torch

3 Ways to Use 2-Part Epoxy Resins

Jeweler’s Workday: Sitting and Looking at the Bench

Handling Stakes and Anvils

Pickling Notes

Liver of Sulfur 101

105 Jewelers Bench Comments

6 Basic Wire Skills to Make a Necklace

Goldsmith Jewelry Finishing Trick

How to Make Equally Sized Beads

Using Acid Bath on Used Tools

Hammering and Forging Safety Guidelines

Full eBook: The Jewelry Maker

Touchstone Method for Testing Karat Gold Purity

Enameling Techniques for Beginners

How to Make Sharp Corner Cuts

Proper Studio Light

Spiral Cut Technique for Rubber Molds

Ergonomics for Bench Pin Modifications

Jewelry Making Study Sheet

How to Use the Conduction Soldering Technique

How to Handle the Flexshaft

Bench Tools Maintenance Schedule

Basic Sawing Techniques

Basic Filing Techniques

The Beginner’s Corner is your introduction to jewelry techniques and terms. Get the basics on everything from equipment to proper working posture.

Beginner's Corner

Platinum Membership With Built-In Exposure

Platinum Membership

Platinum Monthly (sold before Feb 2023)

Platinum Yearly (sold before Feb 2023)

Platinum Plus+ Advertising Bundle

Platinum Plus Advertising One Year

Platinum Pro Advertising Bundle

Platinum Pro Advertising One Year

Platinum Partner Advertising Bundle

Platinum Partner Advertising One Year

3D and CAD/CAM Jewelry Services and Products

Gemstone Related Products and Services

Jewelry Business Software

Jewelry Makers

Jewelry Making Supplies and Tools

Jewelry Mass Production Services

Jewelry Repair

Jewelry Schools

Jewelry Stores and Galleries

Jewelry Trade Associations

Miscellaneous Jewelry Related Products and Services

Diamond Manufacturers

Preserving Rusted Objects for Jewelry

Feedback on a Pavé Design

James Miller Jewelry Gallery

Clasps for a Bolo Tie

For those looking to engage in our forum community and get updates on industry trends

Silver Membership

Silver Monthly

Silver Yearly

For hobbyists, aspiring professionals, and professionals looking to learn or improve their skills

Gold Membership

Gold Monthly

Gold Yearly

For businesses and professionals looking to build their brand

Platinum Monthly

Platinum Yearly

Metal Engraving Tools Explained: How To Choose And Prepare Gravers For Jewelry Work

Jeweler’s Torches Explained: What Kind Do You Need?

Hollow Ring Project

How to Make Open Huggie Hoop Earrings

Tube Setting a Faceted Stone

How to Make a Filigree Bail

How to Make and Set Bezel for a Faceted Stone

Master goldsmith <a href="http://www.brainpress.com/LewtonBrain.html">Charles Lewton-Brain</a> trained, studied and worked in Germany, Canada and the United States to learn the skills he uses. Charles Lewton-Brain is one of the original creators of Ganoksin.

Charles Lewton-Brain

Mechelle Lois is a professional bench jeweler who was classically trained in jewelry making and repair at the highly regarded North Bennet Street School in Boston MA. Now based in her hometown of Pittsburgh PA, she enjoys stone setting, repair work, and creating custom designs. When not making jewelry, Mechelle enjoys traveling and spending time with her family.

Mechelle Lois

Cynthia Downs

Alessandro Aria

Chris Ploof

Gerry Davies

George W. Fischer

Kelly Jean Conroy was born in 1983, in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Growing up in New England and being raised by an artist mother who emphasized making and painting, eventually led her to attaining her BFA from Syracuse University in art education and painting. She completed her MFA in Jewelry Metals from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 2013. She is currently teaching metalsmithing at Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School and Metalwerx. She has previously taught Continuing Ed Jewelry courses at Massachusetts College of Art, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Peters Valley School of Craft, Snowfarm, and the Worcester Center for Crafts. Her personal work focuses on life cycles in nature within a jewelry format. Her specialties are enameling, working with natural materials: carving bone, piercing mother of pearl, laser cutting, and casting.

Kelly Jean Conroy

Pattie Parkhurst has been pursuing jewelry craft since she was a young child.  This passion led her to pursue metalsmithing in college.  After graduating, she worked as a jeweler and continued her education by taking a multitude of workshops taught by master metalsmiths, which expanded her skills tremendously.  By 35, Pattie became part owner of a metalsmithing school that specialized in master workshops.
After college, Pattie served on the board of The Colorado Metalsmithing Association (COMA) where she learned the anticlastic raising metal technique.  This process involves hammering different metals, over and over on an antler-like form.  By immersing herself in this ancient technique, she combines her love for nature and metalsmithing into cohesive nature inspired metal forms.
Her work is mastered and constantly evolving through observational learning, a continuous process that comes from having many jewelry-related businesses.  Pattie loves outdoor adventures, guest lecturing, and teaching.
Richard Sweetman is an artist and teacher with a BFA degree from Colorado State and an MFA degree from the University of Oregon.  He worked as a goldsmith for George McLean Goldsmith in San Francisco.  Richard then taught for many years and has the distinction of starting the Jewelry and Metalwork Program at Arapahoe Community College near Denver.  Several summers he continued to learn and sharpen his skills at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine.  He currently teaches workshops at his studio and for other guilds.

Pattie Parkhurst and Richard Sweetman

Milt Fischbein is an independent metal artist and educator. He is a professional engineer who discovered his love of working with precious metals almost 30 years ago, while taking an introduction to jewellery class at the Alberta College of Art and Design.
He is one of only a handful of metal artists in North America whose primary focus is the design and fabrication of filigree objects. Milt has been fine tuning ancient filigree fabrication techniques in his Calgary, Alberta studio, creating a body of contemporary and gold filigree jewellery. Milt has been passing on his knowledge of filigree techniques through in person and online workshops and lectures. He is a professional member of the Alberta Craft Council.
His works have been published in Edmonton’s Where Magazine, Alberta Craft Magazine and in Victoria Lansford’s 2019 Update of her Russian Filigree DVD. A write up on his studio was featured in the July 2017 issue of the MJSA Journal.

Beginner's Corner

The All-In-One Jewelry Making Solution At Your Fingertips

Trusted Jewelry Making Information & Techniques