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Jewelry Artist September 2008

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Michael Boyd’s Circus Fish Cuff is a design masterwork of shape, color, and form. Variations on Form in Metal, page 27. Photo: Jim Lawson


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Lapidary Journal - Jewelry Artist September 2008
Volume 62, Number 6

Print Magazine Table of Contents
Features | Special Advertising Sections

P R I N T     F E A T U R E S

 6

MY TURN
from the Editor

8

YOUR TURN
Reader Sketches & Comments

10

2008 JEWELRY ARTS AWARDS
News & Innovations

14

FACETS
News & Innovations

16

ASK THE EXPERTS
by Tom & Kay Benham

18

COOL TOOLS & HIP TIPS
by Helen I. Driggs
Mixed Up or Married?

21

MARRIED METAL FAN BROOCH
 Project by Brian Meek

27

VARIATIONS ON FORM IN METAL
Design Exercise by Michael Boyd

30

SMOKIN’ STONES
by Sharon Elaine Thompson
Mookaite

27

STONE/COLOR AS DESIGN MEDIUM
Design Exercise by Michael Boyd

35

DESIGNS from Our CONTRIBUTORS

46

TRENDS
 by Annie Osburn
Movable Gems

48

KINETIC MOONSTONE RING
Project by Claudio Pino

51

MAGIC AND MOVEMENT
by Nina Graci

54

CALDER’S MOBILE JEWELRY
 by Cathleen McCarthy

60

ROCK CORNER
by Claus Hedegaard
Pezzottaite

62

PRODUCT NEWS

64

MEDIA REVIEW
Mokumé Gane
by Ian Ferguson

65

EVENTS

82

The Jewelry Artist DOER’S PROFILE
Donald Friedlich

S P E C I A L     A D V E R T I S I N G    S E C T I O N S

66

Jewelry Schools

68

Rock Shops

70

Fee Mining

72

 Web Site Directory

80

Marketplace

76

 Classifieds

81

 Advertisers’ Index

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