Woodturning Jewelry - Tapa blanda

Woodturners of all abilities will find plenty to challenge them in this guide to creating delightful and beautiful adornments. Using just a lathe and ordinary timber or laminated wood, readers can produce a whole range of jewelry from the 12 step-by-step projects that include earrings, rings, necklaces, and brooches. Readers then learn how to decorate their carved pieces with such techniques as staining, dyeing, and inking; inlaying with beads, bands, and gemstones; and using paints and powders.

This is a highly practical guide to the fascinating craft of turning jewellery from wood. Woodturners of all abilities will find plenty to challenge them, and much to enjoy, in creating these delightful and beautiful adornments. There are twelve step-by-step projects which you can follow to produce a whole range of jewellery, inlcuding:-earrings-bangles-brooches-rings-necklacesAs well as ordinary timber, you are shown how to produce some stunning pieces using laminated wood, and even materials such as bone, cow horn and metal. You can then learn how to decorate what you have created with such techniques as:-wire inlay-staining and dyeing-beading-scorch rings-inlaying wood banding-inlaying beads and gemstones-paints, inks and powders-gold leaf-carvingAll the items in this book can be made quite easily and quickly, using an ordinary lathe without any special features. They are cheap in materials, using only very small pieces of wood - a wonderful way of using up those offcuts - so this form of turning should certainly appeal to those with a limited budget and limited storage space. What is more, you will require only the bare minimum of tools and equipment.