Blog – Tagged "Jewelry Making"

Ten Types of Clasps

Clasps are an essential component of jewelry design. As a jewelry maker, I'm always weighing functionality versus aes...

Jewelry making involves making hundreds or thousands of choices for each piece we make. It’s a blend of precision and...

This is by no means an exhaustive list of finishes, but it’s a good start and can be helpful when you talk to a jewel...

Pickling is something that metal smiths are doing all the time. We forget that there’s a lot we do in the jewelry-mak...

Rhodium (ROH-dee-um) is a chemical element. It’s “Rh” on the periodic table. It’s a silver-white metal that is very r...

I think it’s important to educate consumers about jewelry. The techniques, the materials and so much more! Without fu...

The Mohs hardness scale was developed in the 1800s by Friederich Mohs. He was a German geologist and mineralogist. Ar...

A cabochon is a gemstone that has been shaped and polished. The bottom is flat, and the top is typically shaped into ...

The name “gold-filled” is confusing because it is not wire filled with gold, it’s gold wire that is filled with a bas...

When I first started making earrings I always used ear wires and learned how to make them. Then there were times that...