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Lean over a master's shoulder and watch as Alan Revere demonstrates dozens of tools, hundreds of important skills and countless personal tips. This landmark series employs state-of-the-art close up videography to document the techniques, procedures and skills necessary to create professional quality work.
This is for project 3 Part 1: Turquoise Pendant
This video was added to our catalog on June 26, 2006 in Arts & Crafts::Jewelry Making.
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Very good. Lots of new information here. Well produced, good video quality.
Although the video quality is excellent, and Revere is a master smith, what I didn't like is how hard he makes this project seem. Making a bezel cup for a stone is one of the simplest projects in silversmithing. If you take a class, it's usually your first project because it's so easy. In this video he shows about $2,000 of equipment that most beginners don't need and won't want to splurge on. He actually uses a $300 micrometer to check his measurements! If this video had been my introduction to bezel cup making, I would have assumed that it was an advanced project that required lots of expensive specialty tools. That is a shame because, unless you are creating pendants for NASA, nothing could be further from the truth.
In this video Alan Revere shows the student the perfect bezel set stone. Taking no shortcuts and using tools that anyone who wants to do high dollar jewelry should have access to he shows all aspects of making a bezel to fit a stone, and taking that bezel and making it into a pendant.
