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Art Clay Silver and Gold: 18 Unique Jewelry Pieces to Make in a Day | 
 enlarge | Author: Jackie Truty
Publisher: Krause Publications
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 167985
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.2 x 0.4
ISBN: 0873495578
Dewey Decimal Number: 739
EAN: 9780873495578
ASIN: 0873495578
Publication Date: December 2003
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 Find a better metal clay book September 27, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Like Jackie's later book Metal Clay: The Complete Guide, she totally ignores the fact that there is more than one metal clay product on the market. Why? Because Jackie does not distribute Precious Metal Clay (PMC) made by Japan's Mitsubishi Materials Corporation; she runs Art Clay World, USA, Inc, distributing Art Clay, a metal clay product made by Aida Chemical Industries, Ltd. At the very least, she might have discussed the pros and cons of the two companies' products. To ignore PMC altogether seems too mercenary an approach to writing a project book. I said my peace when panning Jackie's book Metal Clay.
The projects shown are somewhat inspirational but the "faux raku" project stands out as just plain economically silly. For "faux raku," Art Clay Silver paste is applied over terra cotta then, after firing, liver of sulfur is applied for a raku-like patina. It occurred to me that it would be a whole lot less expensive to actually make raku pottery than to make "faux raku" with jewelry-grade silver. Yes, you can do it with Art Clay but why would you?
 New Ideas June 28, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The instructions were good and I found the advice great. I am just starting to apply my self to PMC. This book is just what I need.
Thanks
You don't want to make this junk, trust me November 3, 2006
9 out of 17 found this review helpful
If you just want a place to start with Art Clay I suppose this book will tell you what you need to know but as for me, I only want to make items that I will love to wear and this book does not have items that are attractive unless it is possibly the crude little rings. To simply cut a little stamp sized rectiangle out of a flat piece of silver clay and crumple it up a bit is not what I am interested in. I don't find the results pleasing at all and would not want to wear it. I do have an interest in setting stones into silver, and I do have an interest in making rings. However the ring this book shows is so crude and amateurish looking, so rough, that it again is not something I would enjoy wearing. I make jewelry and every item I have ever made is beautiful and wearable. I do not want to waste my time and money to turn out things that I would be ashamed to be seen wearing, and in my opinion, this book has nothing but that sort of jewelry. This is the shortcoming I am finding in most of these books explaining how to make your own jewelry. I love creating beautiful, wearable art, but this junk is just not art.
Also you will need a small kiln and a tumbler, which furthur accentuates the fact that there is a considerable expense involved in this process. If you are going to go to this amount of trouble and expense, make something really beautiful.
While it could be argued that since this book is for beginners with art clay, one cannot expect it to show beautiful pieces, I disagree and feel that a beginner can be shown how to make items that will be beautiful right from the start. See the book Bead on a Wire as an example.
Art Clay Silver and Gold 19 Unique Jewelry Pieces to make in a day June 30, 2006
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
Great book. Easy to use. Great ideas for projects. Taught me things that I did not learn in a class I took
 All skill level book March 30, 2006
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
This art clay (trade name) book covers what everyone should know that is going to use the Art Clay brand metal clay. The first sections/chapters get the basic stuff down so one can move on to the fun parts making the projects. The pictures are of a good size with large numbers to correspond to the descriptive blurbs. They are of the close up type with little background of the work surface visible. (I do hate it when they show more work surface than the item they are making.) The material lists are well thought out in their content. The glossary and the gemstone characteristic chart is a nice touch. the chart really important in selecting stones to bake with the clay. I own it
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