DON'T BE FOOLED BY SELLERS USING QUESTIONABLE SALES TACTICS - BE CAREFUL! SUCH GLASS is NOT AUTHENTIC MURANO or ITALIAN or VENETIAN Or ROMAN GLASS HOW TO IDENTIFY FAKE MURANO GLASS An important warning to...
There are lots of things to take into consideration when you start off with jewellery making as a hobby, the first will probably be the cost of getting a good stock of beads and findings together! There is no...
What is a Crimp for? If you want to retain Beads in a certain position on your cord(wire or Supplemax clear Nylon) then you will need a crimp. If you wish to creat a loop in the cord and fix the end, you will...
Don't bother buying hand/foot casting kits when they can be easily done at home with playdough and polyfiller (or plaster of paris). One of the mum's at my local playgroup told me about this, and it works a...
Buying a kiln for jewellery making - a few guidelines. Having bought several jewellery kilns I thought that I might be able to point potential buyers in the right direction when choosing one and hopefully...
This is a straightforward guide for metal and plastic figure painters allowing you to cross reference the excellent Vallejo GAME Color acrylic paint system with the Games Workshop range. Hence if you currently...
Apoligies of the poor english , I am a Scottish Fifer and write how I would speak. There is only British Silver which when hallmarked is really silver, many people find thereselves very disappointed when I...
Liquid Metals When I was first given samples of these Roberson’s Liquid Metal to test, I did wonder if they were what they said they were – metal in liquid form. I spoke with the person who actually made...
For a long time, I have believed there to be a fine line that divides sculptors from the growing army of specialist machinists that can create works which look every bit as sculptured as any artisan with a...
The hole story Brett Hammond, of TimeLine Originals, provides an introduction to ancient and antique coin jewellery, which has become increasingly popular with collectors in recent years A few decades ago a...