A tinkerer's approach to jewelry making Humankind’s attraction to jewelry is as old as anything, and the archeological discoveries are...

This technique has some benefits that might make it attractive for beginning artisans I have seen tab set stones before, but never...

My earliest memory of what one would call “silversmithing” goes back about 50 years, at a Country Fair in the Apuseni Mountains, in the heart of Transylvania. An old Gypsy man sat cross-legged on the ground with an iron stake anvil in front of him, pounding rhythmically on a silver coin a woman had brought to him. He was holding the coin with a pair of pliers similar to the thongs blacksmiths use, only much smaller and had a wire-loop over the handles that kept it locked. Onc

A little tight, but cozy, with everything within reach. Front left, the home made anvil. Center, the 1880 Patent alcohol lamp. In the...