| Features |
| 20 | Getting Started on Finishing - METALSMITHING
All jewelers strive to achieve the perfect polish. But what polish is perfect, and how do you get it? By Sara M. Sanford.
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| 26 | Going Platinum - METALS
Platinum has the reputation of being something of a diva - temperamental and difficult to work with. But like any diva, just treat it right, and it'll give off an incomparable shine. By Jurgen J. Maerz.
Maertz shares his technique for making a “Forged Platinum Ring” in Jewelry Journal, page 59.
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| 30 | The Many Faces of Shibuichi - METALS
From ruggedly bold to elegantly subtle, the Japanese copper/silver alloy can be adapted to a wide variety of styles and treatments. By Sharon Elaine Thompson.
Andy Cooperman leads readers through “Alloying,
Ingoting, & Working with Shibuichi” in Jewelry Journal, page 62.
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| 36 | A Beadmaker's Workshop - LAMPWORKING
If you want to make lampworked beads, there are a few things you'll need . . . we give you a checklist to take to the store. By Michelle Waldren.
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| 40 | Natural Geometry - JEWELRY PROFILE
Ilene Schwartz's jewelry designs are a constant surprise to her, the result of the natural world and human construction mixing well in her subconscious mind. By Deborah S. Weiner.
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| 44 | Eye on Tigereye - GEMSTONES
From the source of the stone's distinctive gleam to its political history to its proper orientation, we play “20 Questions” with tigereye. By Si & Ann Frazier.
June Culp Zeitner leads readers through the creation of a “Triple Tigereye Pendant” in Jewelry Journal, page 73.
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| 49 | Making It Stick - GEM CUTTING
Tired of stones shifting on their dop sticks during faceting? Modern lapidaries have an alternative to dop wax - try super glue!
By Charles W. Covill. Covill shares more about
“Dopping with Adhesives” in Jewelry Journal, page 66.
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| 54 | Cooks Peak, New Mexico - FIELD TRIP
Under bright blue Southwestern skies, sharp-eyed and nimble-fingered rock hunters can pick up bright red carnelian agate. By James R. Mitchell.
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| Jewelry Journal |
| 59 | Forged Platinum Ring
By Jurgen J. Maerz
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| 62 | Alloying, Ingoting, & Working with Shibuichi
By Andy Cooperman |
| 66 | Dopping with Adhesives
By Charles W. Covill |
| 69 | Ring Repair: Compressing Down in Size
By Alan Revere |
| 71 | “Leftover” Toggle Necklace
By Cyndi Lavin
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| 73 | Triple Tigereye Pendant
By June Culp Zeitner |
| 75 | Beaded “Lace” Earrings
By Nicole Campanella
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| 77 | Embellished Fused Glass Cabochons, Part II
By Susan Lambert |
| 80 | Creating Feathers in a Gem Carving
By Sharon Elaine Thompson & Thomas R. McPhee
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| Departments |
| 6 | From the Editor |
| 10 | Facets |
| 18 | Mineral Notes
Tanzanite, by Frederick H. Pough, Ph.D.
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| 88 | Shop Helps
Defining some lapidary terms; Well-dopped stone; Matte finish on metal; Orienting a star or cat's-eye stone; Opticon 224 for crazed opals; Washing pearls; Shaping jet; Judging gemstone color; Estimating carat weight; labradorite; Using a diamond wheel dresser
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| 110 | Mail Bag
Question on Enid Kaplan's voltage; Book advice; Security kudos; Polishing rocks; Looking for Vega; Cleaning petrified wood
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| 116 | Product News
Jewelry pedestals; Elasticity™ stringing cord; Optics polishing system; Swarovski crystal from Rio Grande; Artistic Wire from Rings & Things; Platinum cuff link backs; Foil packaging from Kerr
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| 118 | News & Notices
Bead makers' convention; Antique jewelry conference; Niche awards deadline; Bead stringing class; New restrictions on abalone; Auction Market Resource released; Horizon Art & Travel program; Valley Forge craft show entries due; Laser drilling ID'd
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| 120 | Media Reviews
Jeweled Bugs and Butterflies, by Marilyn
Nissenson and Susan Jonas
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| 128 | Show Calendar
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| 52 | Website Directory |
| 91 | Tool & Supply Shop |
| 122 | Bead Board |
| 139 | Marketplace |
| 144 | Classified Advertising |
| 153 | Advertisers' Index |
