Jewelry Making For Beginners: A Complete & Easy Step by Step Guide

This book on jewelry making is a well-organized, comprehensive guide to jewelry making. After first discussing the reasons people want to make their own jewelry, Janet Evans goes on to relay the fact that you do not need any experience whatsoever to get started. She details the supplies needed, the costs associated with jewelry-making, and how to care for the jewelry after it is made. In addition to all of this, she talks about the tools of the trade, the work area, the weights and measurements and, finally, discusses how to craft the various types of jewelry.If you have any interest in this hobby or want to start a jewelry-making business. this book will provide you with all of the information you need to do so.

It has a variety of information but it wasn't nearly as helpful as I thought it would be in learning how to make jewelry. When I bought this I thought it would contain some techniques or something along those lines. But it is more of a general introduction to the tools,different kinds of jewelry making,etc. I was disappointed when I started reading it.

Jewelry making is something that I've always marveled at and have always wanted to do. So, after reading through the pages of this book, with my ereader in hand, I went to purchase the items I needed to get started.With this book as a reference, I've made a couple of simple pieces so far and hope to get better with practice.I'm hoping that this author comes out with other books showing how to make specific pieces of jewelry.

As I love crafts I was looking forward to reading this book. I just wanted to learn how to do a few simple projects and thought this book will be a perfect solution as the title says - step by step.Well, I was completely wrong.The book is full of very vague and general information, there is not a single project, and it is not useful at all.It is not useful to beginners like me, because there is no simple project that you can follow. It is not useful to persons who would like to start making jewelry as a way to earn some money because there are no specific information whatsoever.All the information is so vague and even if you know nothing about jewelry you could probably figure it out. I will give you just one example - In Chapter 8 - Best Place to Find Materials to Make Jewelry the author mentions eBay. Yeah, you would never have guessed, right? And then in the same chapter I will quote a paragraph:"What Kind of Materials Do you Need?Because one of the great things about eBay is that if you do not necessarily know what type of jewelry that you want to create, then you can browse through the many materials available on the website. Looking at the different materials available is a great way to get ideas for what type of jewelry you would like to create."Really? And the author calls this what is in her book secrets?!At the end of the book "if you want to learn more secrets" there is a pitch directing you to a website with just one sales page asking you to subscribe to a newsletter...I got really tired at that point. What is a purpose of a beginners book if not to show them something and teach them? But certainly not that kind of secrets like - search on eBay and buy wholesale. The only purpose of this book seems to be to sell more of the author's books. By the way, I checked the other books by the same author here on Amazon, and to be honest they seem to be more specific, but after the experience with this book there is no way I will buy them.I am only glad I found the book during its free promotional period. So I only wasted my time. But I suggest - don't waste yours. At least click on the product photo and read inside, something I didn't do. And see yourself what kind of info is available in this book.

Great way for me to learn how to make jewelry.

good for beginners just wish had more information and more prodjects.

I found this book to be helpful in understanding the techniques and tools as well as the different types of jewelry marking supplies

Quite a lot of information for someone who simply wishes to read about the craft. No visuals. 2.5 is really what I meant to give. this was little help to me.

Jewelry Making for Beginners is subtitled A Complete and Easy Step by Step Guide. I have to say that I find this a rather inaccurate title. This book reads like a short magazine article rather than a practical guide. You will not be able to make jewellery by the time you have reached the end. The book begins with a section on the different types of jewellery you can make. This could be quite useful if you know nothing about handmade jewellery, but the information is very basic. The rest of the book deals with subjects such as equipment needed and selling your jewellery. The sections are very short and leave lots of information out. The style of writing is very much along the lines of "some jewellers will use an anvil" rather than "beginners need to make sure they have the following tools...". The section on sourcing materials is utterly bizarre as it just reads like a long advert for ebay and no other sources are mentioned! I have made jewellery for years and have read many books, but none like this. I really cannot understand what the purpose of it is. It's a shame it is so lacking in practical information as the author is actually a good writer and explains thing very clearly. Hopefully she will go on and write something with a little more substance.

not the kind of book for beginners, more suitable I thought, for a person who was more of an intermediate crafter. There were no pictures to show how to do stitches, it felt like more of a book on her ideas for future products.

As someone who is just starting out with jewellery making, I found it difficult to read this book without illustrations . It would'Ve been useful to see some of the items you describe along with helpful hints and tips on using these items.

I bought this anticipating ideas and techniques for the craft...only to find it is an essay on tools! It is brief and useful if you know absolutely nothing but useless if you wish to refine ideas/techniques and develop more...thus the title is totally erroneous.

When I buy a book, and it is going to have pictures in, I expect them to be in colour NOT photo-copies in black and white. This book looks like it has all been phot-copied, so yes its OK, but that is it.