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Make Custom
Clasps, Connectors, and More
Melody MacDuffee
Kalmbach Books
April 21, 2015 / ISBN 978-1627001700
Crafts & Hobbies/Jewelry
Reviewed
by Linda Morelli
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those of us who have enjoy making jewelry but want to save on
the cost, we now have a great new resource for saving money
while making aesthetically pleasing and inexpensive components.
Melody MacDuffee is a highly talented artist who provides an
excellent resource for making innovative, intricate and beautiful
spacers, gemstone settings, earring components, stunning wire
bracelets and lacy necklaces. Each is totally unique in design,
relatively easy to make and requires only wire and a few basic
tools.
The book features multiple photos of stunning and original jewelry
designs, with various stages of development and easy to follow
directions that had me eager to start on a project. I’ve
worked wire wrapping and picked a project that I felt might
be a challenge for me, the “Floral Crystal Druzy Necklace,”
yet the necklace is so visually stunning that I was determined
to learn the techniques because I was certain the result would
be worth the learning process. I was surprised by the ease of
execution. It’s safe to say that, with the instructions
as a guide, your own finished results will be gorgeous and unique
pieces of jewelry that reveal your exceptional designs and talents.
Among the components that one learns to make are chandelier
earrings, lacy wire and multi-loop spacers, cluster dangle earrings,
bezeled settings, as well as linked chain and multi-strand bracelets
and necklaces. The illustrated color photos make following the
instructions easy. In my opinion, the book is worth its weight
in gold for the technical basics featured that will teach us
how to save us money and garner compliments galore.
Decorative Wire Findings is one of the best resources I’ve
found yet, and one to which I will definitely refer to again
and again. |
Reviewer
Linda Morelli is the award winning author of three published
romance novels. |
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