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Our professional level books are available to group orders from students, lapidary clubs and associations. We let you mix and match the titles you want and then mail them to you. You get a great 30% discount. There is a minimum 10 book order. This is the list of the books we can offer you on these terms. Most are by Charles Lewton-Brain. Shipping costs will vary.
Group Order Book List US$ Retail Group Price Cheap Thrills in the Tool Shop $34.95 $24.46 Hinges and Hinge-Based Catches $34.95 $24.46 Small Scale Photography Video and Text Book $59.95 $41.96 Small Scale Photography Book by Itself $34.95 $24.46 The Jewelry Workshop Safety Report $34.95 $24.46 Fold-Forming Paper (49 pages) $15.50 $10.85 Fold-Forming Overview CDROM $59.95 $42.00 Fold Forming Video $23.50 $16.45 Patinas for Small Studios $15.50 $10.85 Gold Surface Applications: A Technology Review $15.50 $10.85 Gold Surface Applications Under Enamels $15.50 $10.85 Shareware Book $24.95 $17.46 Build Your Own Draw Bench Instructions $15.50 $10.85 Depletion Gilding: A historical and technical introduction $15.50 $10.85 The Bibliography Lists $15.50 $10.85 Theory and Practice of Goldsmithing - Erhard Brepohl $70.00 $49.00 Ornament and Object -- Anne Barros $28.95 $20.26 Bench Tricks for Goldsmithing CD $34.95 $24.46
This book analyzes hinges and hinge-like mechanisms in a manner never done before in a single volume. We feel it will be a classic. Along with history, generics, classes of hinges, guiding principles, sections include: design, tube making, hinge pins (force-fit, riveted, upset, tapered, cotter type, tubing, square, threaded, stud), hinge types (basic, thick-walled, locket, bracelet, box, block, cold-rolled, tab, cast and milled), lubrication, catch systems, hidden, alternative, cast hinges and solving design problems. Good index and table of contents. 112 pages, over 200 line drawings.. $34.95 (Group discount with ten titles) = $24.46) . ISBN 0-9698510-3-0
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This is a loose, eclectic collection of short cuts, bench tricks and alternative equipment options for goldsmiths. Cheap tool making, conversions and unexpected sources for tools are all described. Sections include shop machines, tools, setting tools, soldering and more. Lots of drawings, lists and reviews of sources round out the book. A good table of contents and index make finding information easy. 80 pages. 82 line drawings. $34.95 (Professional discount if you buy here= $32.95) ISBN 0-9698510-6
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This 2006 Powerpoint slide show with commentary has over 200 pictures of really great bench tricks, cheap tool sources, surprising ways of using tools and more. This lecture has been presented in New York and Tucson for MJSA and AGTA. It is guaranteed to show you new ways of saving money, making tools and equipment work for you and make you think. Save hundreds of dollars if you apply the ideas in this show. It is available on a CDROM. It comes as a Powerpoint show. Free powerpoint readers are available for Mac and PC platforms. Included is a printable PDF file of the book Cheap Thrills in the Tool Shop (value: $24.95) This CDROM with both the Bench Tricks Show and Cheap Thrills in the Tool Shop is $34.95.
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This text and video lecture combo gives excellent lessons on how to set up a home or studio photo booth to take professional-quality photographs and slides of your jewelry or small objects such as ceramics, glass and so on. Taking your own quality images saves money and time. The system (not counting the cost of camera and tripod) costs less than $60.00 to set up. How to build a drop shadow photo booth, film types, lighting, miniature spotlighting, composition, backgrounds, surface understanding and image creation are covered. PR techniques are taught and sources are listed. The ideas shared in this set can save you hundreds of dollars in professional photographic fees and time. Approximately 80 minutes of classroom lecture video: the idea is to get the information into your mind in two different ways thus deepening your learning.. 90 pages, lots of clear diagrams and drawings. Video and book are $59.95 (Professional discount = $53.95) ISNB 0-9698510-2-2 Review / Pictures of the photo booth system in use in a workshop / Excerpts from Book / To Books List / Top of Page / Email to order this book
The Small Scale Photography book can be bought by itself for $34.95.
Essential for jewelers, professionals, schools, small studios, factories, students. This book reviews issues of studio safety and discusses strategies for recognizing risks in the jewelry workshop, and for reducing hazards by using substitution of materials or processes. The premise is that any reduction in risk improves safety conditions for the goldsmith and artist. It is written in a easily readable, warm style with plenty of examples and safety anecdotes backed by extensive citations and references. A workshop tour gives you a new approach to learning about safety issues and procedures, with safety and health concerns listed by the jewelry procedures and tools used, and a good index, all designed to help you find the information you want rapidly and easily. Chosen as a required course text by New York's Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), The New Approach School (Virginia) and the Paris Texas Jewelry Training Program. All three also chose the Brepohl book as mandatory for their students. 222 pages, $34.95 US. ISBN 0-9698510-4-9
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This is a compilation of all the fold-forms known as of 2004. Well over a thousand images organized by type and section. Each thumbnail enlarges as you mouse over it providing a 'magnification' function before clicking on a larger image. Has a number of the core step by step sequences for making fold-forms. Includes examples of Line folds, T-folds, Cross Folds, Rolled folds, Woven folds, Hydraulic press folds, Scored and bent folds, Shear and forged, Folds derived from Paper models, Pleated folds, Variations and Combination folds. The fold-forming paper from 1990 is included for printout. This will be published in very late 2005. Invest in the project before publication for a price break, $42.00 including shipping. After publication it will be $59.95.
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Fold forming is a system of sheet metal forming which emphasizes forming using the metals characteristics. Forms are derived from the natural plasticity, ductility and elasticity of the metal. The system is internationally recognized as a new approach to working metal. It is extremely efficient and rapid. Tools are simple: fingers, hands, anvil hammers, mallets, and rolling mills. The paper has a theoretical introduction and step-by-step recipes for quickly working sheet metal. 49 pages, over 70 B/W line drawings. $15.50.
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This early half-hour video serves to introduce fold forming as a system. Made in 1985 (and rather basic), it covers the fundamental folds of the system, some 8 or so folds. Let's put it this way, Charles had a lot more hair when it was made. Includes a short set of notes on developments since 1985. $23.50. PAL format is available upon request.
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This wide-ranging, truly eclectic paper is chock full of suppliers, sources, technical information, patinas, stonesetting tips, bench tools and thoughts about metalsmithing. 189 pages. Lots of diagrams. Cerlox bound. This book is also used as a handout for Brain Press workshops. $24.95. ISBN 0-9698510-1-4
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Describes safer, easier patination methods for metals involving easily obtainable and even kitchen chemicals to produce blues, greens, browns, blacks, grays and reddish tones on metals. Cupric nitrate patination, which gives a wide ranges of controllable green, blue, black and brown color options on a number of metals, is extensively discussed. Paint types which emulate patinas are mentioned. Application methods and options for pattern and surface control are described. 34 pages, 5 colour pictures. $15.50.
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This paper documents the results of a research project for the Society of North American Goldsmiths. It describes fusion applications (gold painting), doublée, Keum-boo, depletion gilding (tumbaga, guanin), inlay and overlay procedures and it discusses fire gilding. Control factors for free compositional choice are defined and demonstrated. That is, the information is treated as a way of creating patterns and pictures with gold and other materials. 27 pages. B/W diagrams, one color picture. $15.50.
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This paper describes methods of creating surface designs using gold alloys on copper to provide patterned surfaces for use under transparent enamels. Includes gold fusion surface applications, fusion overlay, incised overlay and inlay techniques as well as the use of resists for gold application, doublÈe (fusion laminates) and keum-boo. Together these form a system for surface design that offers a broad palette of marks and control sufficient to allow great surface detail and accurate translation from drawing to finished work as well as painterly approaches. A version of this paper was published in the magazine Glass on Metal in the spring of 1998. 18 pages, B/W diagrams. $15.50.
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A historical and technical introduction to gold surface enrichment. This academic paper describes the approaches that goldsmiths have used historically in various cultures to remove base metals from gold alloys for refining or "coloring the gold": depletion gilding. There is an extensive listing of recipes from numerous historical and contemporary sources to foster contrast and comparison and deepen readers understanding of the subject. It is intended for information only and is not a "how to" for depletion gilding. Many of the procedures described are hazardous and not to be done without a chemical fume hood and similar stringent precautions. 20 pages. $15.50
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Instructions and plans explain how to build a good draw bench for about thirty dollars from easily available materials. There are step by step instructions aand alternative methods of drawing are described.This draw bench is good for drawing wire and tube. 27 pages. $15.50. To Books List / Top of Page / Email to order this book
This is for a photocopied bibliography of Charles Lewton-Brain's personal library, that is the books in his library as well as three other bibliographies. This compilation of book titles represents a lifetime's work of gathering books into a great jewelry/metals bibliography. We've included the bibliography he used for his 1985 paper of Gold applications, the 1990 Depletion Gilding paper bibliography and the 1999 bibliography for safety information for the jewelry trade used for the book The Jewelry Workshop Safety Report. It is an 18 page compilation of several book lists. Published by Brain Press, photocopied and plastic sleeve bound. 8 1/2"x11", 2004. The first section lists title, author. The other lists are author, title, publisher etc. $15.50
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Translated by Lewton-Brain, edited by McCreight. This book is Fantastic!! At last in English! It is the best book in the world on goldsmithing. European countries use it as a standard reference. It has everything, from metallurgy of precious metals to how to build catches and linkage units. This book has all the science (phase diagrams, formulas, chemistry of flux, etc) and all the hand skills too. The largest and best collection of catches and findings diagrams anywhere, clear and easy to understand. The ultimate resource book. It has literally everything in more detail than any other book. It is oriented to the professional, to industry, trade, goldsmithing rather than academic or art/craft. If you are interested in goldsmithing, silversmithing and jewelry making this is a 'Must Have' book. The working professional’s version of Oppi Untracht’s book. 536 pages, 277 B/W photos, 319 drawings, 114 charts, 8"x10" hardcover, weighs 1.7 kilos. $70.00 ISBN 0-9615984-9-2
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This insightful look at the past 50 years of Canadian jewellery and metal art is a valuable addition to our arts and crafts history. Richly illustrated with examples of important and unique work in a variety of media, this book chronicles the evolution of the post-war metalcraft movement in Canada. Ornament & Object will serve as both a source of inspiration and a valuable reference work. The book won 1st prize in the 1997 Alcuin National Awards for pictorial quality and layout. 9 x 10, hardcover, 176 pages, 40 color and 100 b&w photographs. This book is out of print but we still have a number of copies available. $28.95 ISBN 1-55046-218-0
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