Jewelry Making Web Based Tutorials and Guides
This page has links to websites that have valuable information, tutorials and projects about jewellery making or making jewelry generally.
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Basic Jewellery Making Techniques - Making Jewellery Magazine
This well illustrated tutorial page shows basic techniques for working with wire and jumprings.
Bench Tips - Alan Revere
Great tips for the jeweler from Alan Revere. Taken from his book 101 Bench Tips. Well worth reading for some great tips.
Connie Fox - basic wire jewelry skills
Very thorough and easy to follow instructions of basic wireworking skills with good pictures. Includes how to make single eye pins, double eye pins, wrapped eye pins, jump rings, spirals, clasps and coils.
Connie Fox - working with sheet metal
Great tutorial covering working with sheet metal. Covers using a jewelers saw, making a template, filing and drilling.
Ganoksin
Fantastic resource for anyone working in the jewelry world. This site is packed with articles, tips and hints. Has an article section on metal clay. Well worth browsing.
How to Make Beaded Jewellery
Useful site with lots of jewellery making projects. Clear tutorials with pictures.
Jema Hewitt - Victorian Style Necklace
Simple tutorial using silver clay and polymer clay to create a dramatic Victorian style necklace. This was originally published in Making Jewellery magazine and is now free to view on their website.
Jeneca Beads
How-to guides on a variety of beginners jewellery making techniques.
Jewellery Directory
Great resource for everything to do with jewellery.
Jewelry Lessons
Huge range of tutorials, some free, some you have to pay for. Lots of techniques and variety from chainmaille and silverwork to wirework and weaving.
Looking after your jewellery
Brief guide from About.com
Make your own Headpins - The Bead Man
Simple, short tutorial showing how to create your own headpins using a butane torch. Good pictures illustrate this tutorial.
Metalsmithing Bench Tips
These tips include drilling holes, polishing and removing tarnish tips. From Heart of the Stone Studio.
Nina Designs - Design Ideas
This website has hundreds of design ideas for jewelry makers. Each idea has a parts list so you can order the parts from the website. Great for inspiration.
Professional Jeweler Magazine Archives
Online, searchable resourse for past articles from Professional Jeweler Magazine. Search any jewelry related subject to see a wealth of information.
Rio Grande - metal working tips
Information about annealing, hardening sterling silver, how to bend tubing, measuring a ring blank and more.
Soldering Tutorial - The Bead Man
Useful tutorial with pictures showing soldering technique.
Stringing Beads
This site has lots of free tutorials for making polymer clay beads including milefiori and caning techniques.
Tania McLean - European 6 in 1 Cuff
This heavy European 6-in-1 cuff is an intermediate project. Made with the smallest aspect ratio for this weave, this dense piece will be a challenge to all intermediate chain maille artists. From Making Jewellery Magazine.
Thrifty Fun - How to Drill Holes in Sea Shells
Sea shells make great jewelry, especially combined with metal clay. This web page has lots of useful tips and hints on how to drill holes in sea shells.
Unique Solutions
Tutorial about soldering jumprings using paste solder.
