Professional Jewelry Making [Hardcover] by Alan Revere

This book has step by step instructions, excellent photos and explanations. It's a perfect book to learn goldsmithing techniques, but also great to have as a reference for experienced professionals.

I value the step by step detailed instructions, and how they increased my understanding of process

I have several of Alan Revere's books and they are all great. This book takes you from the very beginning, starting with the tools you will need, where to get them or how to make them yourself and shows you the basic techniques for setting different types of stones in different types of pieces. The pictures do a great job showing the techniques and the descriptions are very precise, explaining how to perform each step and why.

If you are looking for a book to start or advance jewelry techniques, whether you are student or experienced jeweler, look no further. This book is comprehensive guide, including formulas and tables for jewelers, explaining tools, best practices AND it has dozen of projects from simpler to complex ones with step by step, easy to read description and photos at each steps to guide you to a successful completion. You would be given access to Alan Revere’s 40 years of goldsmithing experience and teaching and he would walk you through creating : bangles, crochet chains, forged rings, basket pendants, solitaire cluster rings, etc. I cannot recommend it more. I love it and refer to this amazing book very often. A must read for anyone making jewelry!

Professional Jewelry Making is one of my most used reference tools. I learn new techniques from the many projects in the book. I also love the appendix charts in the back which range from how to calculate the size of metal needed to gem care. This book holds a great value for jewelers and is worth every penny.