Your expert techniques with a silver lining! A comprehensive guide, Silversmithing for Jewelry Makers details techniques, surface treatments, and innovations specifically designed for all jewelry makers working in silver, and especially focuses on the needs and interests relevant to metal-jewelry artisans. Explore basic skills as well as specialist techniques, including filigree, chasing, annealing, engraving, etching, casting, and much more. Plus, profiles of contemporary practitioners are included in every section, along with galleries illustrating a range of beautifully crafted finished works. The handy resource section also features a how-to for selling jewelry in the contemporary accessories market. Experienced jewelry makers interested in either exploring silver for the first time or taking their silver jewelry to the next level will love this harmonious marriage between expert silversmithing advice and a jewelry artisan sensibility.

George E. Gee in the book "The Silversmith's Handbook" shares the full instructions for the alloying and working of silver. He provides information on the modes of refining and melting silver, its solders, preparation of imitation alloys, different methods of manipulation, and ways to get the most out of silversmith.

W. Ben Hunt's Indian Silversmithing offers a rich history of this southwestern Native American craft and provides an invaluable reference manual for crafters and hobbyists who want to learn and practice the art themselves.