The Jewelry Engravers Manual: vi (Dover Crafts: Jewelry Making & Metal Work)

This book is perfect if you're like me and want to learn engraving. Great instruction and explanations. Highly recommended as part of your learning.

Excellent book on engraving jewellery.

I really like this book and the way information is presented but my only reservation to this book is it has very few black and white drawings and not enough photographs of inspirational and already engraved objects.

Very clear, easy to follow book. Useful illustrations. The book is a bit old-fashioned perhaps, but still a very helpful book on the subject.

Great for learning

It helped me very much understand engraving and served my purpose. I like it very much

not what I expected but delivery etc fine

Practical and informative

Absolutely love this book, heaps of information , super fast delivery, just what I was looking for.

great book, tons of useful info for beginners and masters too, i suspect:)

Amazing book, has a wealth of knowledge for the price of a hamburger. This book, while not appearing to be much, has a LOT of useful information not only on engraving but on tempering and shaping your gravers and the assortment of gravers themselves. After reading through it, my opinion of it was that it was a book written by someone who wanted to share the craft rather than make a pretty penny on his knowledge. If you do any metalworking that remotely involves engraving, pick this thing up. Even if all you do is sharpen drill bits, the section on tempering alone is WELL worth it. Past that, it also explains the technique on how to make the lettering, with careful handrawn diagrams and several alphabet tables for reference. It's become invaluable to me, and it's become as essential to my precision toolbox as the tools inside them.

Un buon manuale per approcciarsi all'arte dell'incisione, anche se un po datato come strumentazione e tecnologie è l'unico sufficientemente esplicativo attualmente reperibile, rispecchia la qualità della manualistica in lingua inglese.

There are a lot of how to books and DVDs on beginning and advanced engraving. Most are informative and very expensive, but for the basics and beginning techniques get this book before you but anything else and read it. It was not put out by a manufacturer of air driven gravers (which are handy). It is what you would have been taught back in the 60s and 70s. Master the basics and the advanced techniques come easier. That is what this book does, plus it defines terms, techniques and methods. Do what it says in the book and practice them. After that find a basic course at a local college or sign up for one the manufacturers classes. Getting proficient at engraving takes time and this book is the place to start.