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Workshop Health and Safety

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Metals Safety Information

Hammering and Forging Safety Guidelines

Calculating ROI for Tool and Equipment Purchases

Electroplating Safety Precautions

Build a Basic Jeweler’s Bench

Important Principles of Casting Safety

Understanding the Working Titanium

Sand Casting Safety Notes

Patination Safety Considerations

Jewelery Workshop Ventilation

Potentially Harmful Metalsmithing Substances

Dusts in the Jewelry Workshop

Jewelry Workshop Safety Report

A Metalsmith’s Guide to Los Angeles

Grinding Wheel Safety Rules

105 Jewelers Bench Comments

Lapidary Work Safety Precautions

Working Posture for Craftsmen

Organizing a Jeweler’s Studio

Metalsmithing Health Hazards

Gloves and the Jeweler

Goldsmithing Health Hazards

Hydraulic Press Safety Precautions

Homemade Soldering Station Venting System

Jeweler’s Workday: Sitting and Looking at the Bench

What to Know About Heavy Metal Testing

Dermatitis and the Jeweler

Proper Use of Liquid Metals

Maintaining Good Workshop Air Quality

The Jewelers and Asbestos

Gas Handling Guidelines

Safety Notes for Jewelers on Pitch, Chasing and Repousse

A Pain In The Neck

Build an Advanced Jeweler’s Bench

Master Metalsmith Alan Adler

Organize Your Bench

Noise and its Effects

Studio Visit – Daniel Brush

The Patina Studio

Eliminating Ash Residue Defects

Large Scale Enameling at The Enamel Foundation

Studio Lighting Considerations

Equipment Maintenance Guidelines

Proper Studio Light

Innovative Approaches to Small Shop Success

Studio Visit – Daniel Jocz

Sansone Studio: Famous Enamel Works

A Metalsmith’s Guide to Toronto

Studio Visit – Jack and Marilyn da Silva

Studio Visit – Jeffrey Herman

Separating Work and Home

Studio Visit – Tom Joyce

Sansone Studio: Ancient Enameling Techniques

Organize Your Workspace

Maximizing Bench Work Profitability

Jewelry Companies Help Save the Planet

Studio Visit – Fred Fenster

Waste Not, Want Not

Studio Visit – Andrew Goss and Sandra Noble Goss

Studio Visit – Christina Smith

Studio Visit – Namu Cho

Gregore Morin’s Studio Makeover

Studio Visit – Metalpeople

Studio Enameling with Jaime Frechette

Teaching Enameling at the International Enamel Studio

Studio Visit – Gary Noffke

Structuring for Efficiency in the Studio

Studio Visit – Doug Wilson

Arte Smykke-design in Oslo

Studio Visit – Patty Spiro

Studio Visit – Milt Fischbein

The Goldsmiths: Studio & Shop

Studio Visit – Abrasha’s Studio

Successful Artists Collaboration

Novell Design Studio

A Conversation with John Marshall

Metalsmith ’86 Winter: Health Hazards Q&A’s

Atelier d’Artisanat du Centre-Ville

Beyond the Bench: Contemporary Studio Jewelry

Tom Markusen: Holloware Maker with Integrity

Studio Visit – Nanopod Hybrid Studio

Master Metalsmith Dorothy Sturm

Studio Safety Evaluation

3 Tips to Overcome Workplace Dysfunction

Safety Issues and Litigation

Metalsmith ’85 Summer: Health Hazards Q&A’s

3 Jewelers, 4 Tools Testing

Studio Jewelers Sabbatical

Pollution Control / Metal Recovery

How Jewelers Approach Work Materials

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

Studio Visit – Cynthia Eid

The Teachers’ Role

Large Scale Enameling at JSW Studio

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

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

Square-Shaped Treasures Made of Glass

Green Bench Tips – Part 1

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

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6 Basic Wire Skills to Make a Necklace

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 a Paper Clip Bracelet

How to Make Threader Earrings

How to Set a Stone, Polish and Finish a Bezel Set Ring

How to Solder a Bezel Cup to a Ring Band

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 silver 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.

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