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Mr. Charles Lewton-Brain
These Books and Ebooks represent over 30 years of experience, thinking and writing about jewelry making and the field of metal working. I am interested in quality information and in making the life of the working jeweler, student and hobbyist easier and better.
This project introduces new kinds of documents to the jewelry field, titles not available before. Examples are short papers previously too small to print, very long papers, and rare subjects that only a handful of people are interested in. As well, Powerpoint lectures and other digital media are available this way. Lewton-Brain's books in hard copy are available through this page.
I hope you enjoy my work.
Best wishes,
Charles
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Lewton-Brain Compilation #1
This is a compilation of ten papers by Charles Lewton-Brain. They would cost over $100 if purchased separately.
Chasing Tools and Punches: Quickly making chasing tools for repousse work.
Draw Bench: Building a good draw bench.
Earring Posts: How to make earring posts for earrings.
Gold Fusion: Inlaying gold and silver into copper for patterned sheet for construction and enameling.
Preventing Fire Scale: Ways to avoid fire-scale when heating sterling silver.
Fold Forming: Original 1985/96 classic that introduced fold-forming.
Patinas: Describes patinations to create blues, greens, browns, blacks, grays and reddish tones on metals.
Shareware (1996)
Wide-ranging, eclectic, suppliers, sources, technical info, patinas, stonesetting, tools, reviews, gemology and metalsmithing.
Small Tools For Jewelers
Nine fantastic bench tools to make life easier and working faster.
Introduction to Tube Setting for Gems
Introduces tools and methods for tube setting for jewelers.
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Cheap Thrills in the Tool Shop
This Classic book is a loose, eclectic collection of short cuts, bench tricks and alternative equipment options for goldsmiths. Cheap tool making, conversions and unexpected sources for tools are all described. Sections include shop machines, tools, setting tools, soldering and more. Will save you hundreds of dollars in the jewelry studio. Lots of line drawings, lists and reviews of sources round out the book. A good table of contents and index make finding information easy. This was the first bench tricks book published in English in 40 years and led the interest in Bench Tricks in the jewelry/metals field. 80 pages. 82 line drawings. $34.95
Print: $34.95
Download: $30.00
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Hinges and Hinge-Based Catches
This book analyzes hinges and hinge-like mechanisms in a manner never done before in a single volume. It has become a classic for jewelry making. Along with history, generics, classes of hinges, guiding principles, sections include: design, tube making, hinge pins (force-fit, riveted, upset, tapered, cotter type, tubing, square, threaded, stud), hinge types (basic, thick-walled, locket, bracelet, box, block, cold-rolled, tab, cast and milled), lubrication, catch systems, hidden, alternative, cast hinges and solving design problems. Good index and table of contents. Covers more information about hinges than any book in English. 112 pages, over 200 line drawings..
Print: $34.95
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Small Scale Photography: How to Take Great Shots of Your Work
This text gives excellent lessons on how to set up a home or studio photo booth to take professional-quality photographs and images of your jewelry or small objects such as ceramics, glass, fossils and so on. Taking your own quality images saves money and time. The system (not counting the cost of camera and tripod) costs less than $70.00 to set up. How to build a drop shadow photo booth,lighting, miniature spotlighting, composition, backgrounds, surface understanding and image creation are covered. PR techniques are taught and sources are listed. The ideas shared in this set can save you hundreds of dollars in professional photographic fees and time. While written in 1997 and discusses film use all the studio set up and image making information is good for digital images. 90 pages, lots of clear diagrams and drawings.
ISNB 0-9698510-2-2
Print: $34.95
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The Jewelry Workshop Safety Report
Essential for jewelers, professionals, schools, small studios, factories, students. This book reviews issues of studio safety and discusses strategies for recognizing risks in the jewelry workshop, and for reducing hazards by using substitution of materials or processes. The premise is that any reduction in risk improves safety conditions for the goldsmith and artist. Plenty of examples and safety anecdotes with extensive citations and references. A workshop tour gives you a new approach to learning about safety issues and procedures, with safety and health concerns listed by the jewelry procedures and tools used, and a good index. A required text by New York's Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), The New Approach School (Virginia) and the Paris Texas Jewelry Training Program. 222 pages ISBN 0-9698510-4-9
Print: $34.95
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Bench Tricks for Goldsmithing Powerpoint Show
This 2006 Powerpoint slide show with commentary has over 200 pictures of really great bench tricks, cheap tool sources, surprising ways of using tools and more. This lecture has been presented in New York and Tucson for MJSA and AGTA. It is guaranteed to show you new ways of saving money, making tools and equipment work for you and make you think. Save hundreds of dollars if you apply the ideas in this show. It downloads as a Powerpoint show. Free powerpoint readers are available for Mac and PC platforms. Fantastic information!
Download: $30.00
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Patinas for Small Studios (Classic paper)
Patinas for Small Studios by Charles Lewton-Brain
This classic paper describes safer, easier patination methods for metals involving easily obtainable and even kitchen chemicals to produce blues, greens, browns, blacks, grays and reddish tones on metals. Cupric nitrate patination, which gives a wide ranges of controllable green, blue, black and brown color options on a number of metals, is extensively discussed. Paint types which emulate patinas are mentioned. Application methods and options for pattern and surface control are described. 35 pages
Print: $15.51
Download: $15.50
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The Polishing Report
This Paper proposes a system for polishing jewelry successfully. It was a cooperative project with Allcraft Tools in New York City. It is about a core Polishing Set of tools, the basic buffs and more for a working jeweler. The stages of polishing are broken into four major steps: large cutting, small cutting, large bright coloring and small bright coloring. Full of tips and tricks the Polishing Report tells you how to polish, remove fire scale, create sharp inside right angles and avoid overpolishing. Sections include holding items, cleaning polishing compound, alternative polishing wheels and more. 31 pages, A number of color pictures.
Print: $20.00
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Shareware Book (original 1996 version)
This wide-ranging, truly eclectic paper is chock full of suppliers, sources, technical information, patinas, stonesetting tips, bench tools, book reviews, gemology information and thoughts about metalsmithing. This book derived from a large handout for Lewton-Brain's workshops between 1984 and 1996, at which time it formed the core of Lewton-Brain's information published at the Ganoksin Project(ganoksin.com), which is what got the website going at the beginning. 176 pages. Lots of diagrams. This is the original unchanged, classic 1996 version. It is all that content in one document. Some of the addresses are dated, but all told this is a ton of information. ISBN 0-9698510-1-4
Print: $30.00
Download: $24.95
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Gold Applications for Enameling
This paper details how to inlay gold and other metals into copper to create patterned sheet to construct with and enamel over with transparent enamels. The step-by-step example shown uses a spiral iron binding wire to indent a thick copper slab. Gold is fused into the indentation and the excess removed. When rolled out this produces beautiful gold inlay to enamel over. The paper also details how to do paper die printing, a lovely addition to any metal surface. This technique was publicised by Lewton-Brain in chapters in the magazine Glass on Metal, and in Karen Cohen's book on enameling "The Art of Fine Enameling". This paper addresses one section of the 'Gold Applications under Enamels' paper in detail and depth. 18 pages, BW diagrams.
Print: $15.50
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Gold Fusion Inlay for Enameling
This paper details how to inlay gold and other metals into copper to create patterned sheet to construct with and enamel over with transparent enamels. The step-by-step example shown uses a spiral iron binding wire to indent a thick copper slab. Gold is fused into the indentation and the excess removed. When rolled out this produces beautiful gold inlay to enamel over. The paper also details how to do paper die printing, a lovely addition to any metal surface. This technique was publicised by Lewton-Brain in chapters in the magazine Glass on Metal, and in Karen Cohen's book on enameling "The Art of Fine Enameling". This paper addresses one section of the 'Gold Applications under Enamels' paper in detail and depth. 14 pages, BW diagrams, color pictures.
Download: $12.00
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Unexpected Sources for Chasing Tools and Punches
This paper details ways of quickly finding and making punches and chasing tools for repousse work. Jewelers, silversmiths and others can use these special tricks and sources for getting punches and stamps. Odd Ebay categories and everyday hardware store tools can be used as chasing tools for jewelry making. Great Tips and ideas! This article is an enlarged version with new images of a free article at the Ganoksin Project. Go to http://brainpress.com/Ganoksin.html#Articles to see other similar free articles by Lewton-Brain. 9 pages.
Download: $5.00
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Diderot on Chasing Tools and Workshop
This is a reproduction of Diderot's famous French Encyclopaedia from 1751. There are three pages, a title page, a descriptive key page to the images and a page that has an engraving of a chasing and damascening workshop along with a plate showing chasing tools and chisels as well as some typical workshop tools. After the reproduction comes a new section: the translation of the workplace descriptions and the tool key into English, with the proper English chasing terms used for the tools. A variety of tools are named.
Print: $12.00
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Build Your Own DrawBench for Jewelry Making
This paper has complete directions and plans that explain how to build a good draw bench for about thirty dollars from easily available materials. There are step by step instructions. Alternative methods and approaches to drawing are described. This draw bench is excellent for making wire and tube. It is easy to build and use. Has directions for tube making and related tools. 27 pages.
Print: $20.00
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Small Tools For Jewelers
This paper details how to make nine fantastic bench tools to make the jewelers life easier and working faster. Each is made from cheap materials, free or already at hand in the goldsmith's workshop. All are easy to make. Indispensible to an efficient shop, each tool is a 'generic', that is it represents a whole class of tools the jeweler finds useful. Making the example gives you a model for other kinds of tools to create. This article is an enlarged version with new images of a free article at the Ganoksin Project. Go to http://brainpress.com/Ganoksin.html#Articles to see other similar free articles by Lewton-Brain. 13 pages.
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Introduction to Tube Setting for Gems
This paper introduces the tools and step by step method used for tubes setting for jewelers. Tube setting is a simple, professional looking gem setting technique. When the tools are correct it can be a very fast stone setting method. Includes stonesetting tool descriptions and tidbits. This article is an enlarged version with new images of a free article at the Ganoksin Project. Go to http://brainpress.com/Ganoksin.html#Articles to see other similar free articles by Lewton-Brain. 13 pages.
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Preventing and Avoiding Fire-scale when Jewelry Making
This short paper describes ways to avoid the dreaded fire-scale, a hard to remove purplish discoloration or 'bloom' which occurs on sterling silver when it is heated. This information is important for jewelers and silversmiths, as firescale can be a serious problem on high polished work. This article is an updated version of a free article at the Ganoksin Project. Go to http://brainpress.com/Ganoksin.html#Articles to see other similar free articles by Lewton-Brain. Four pages.
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Making Earring Posts for Jewelry by Hand
This paper shows how to effectively make earring posts for soldering onto earrings. Tricks for rapidly making posts are revealed, especially useful when making your own gold or silver earring posts. A production soldering tool for earring posts is described and tips on tweezers shared. This article is a new expanded version with images of a free article at the Ganoksin Project. Go to http://brainpress.com to see other free articles. 10 pages.
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The Bibliography Lists: A goldsmiths and jewelers research tool
This is a bibliography of Charles Lewton-Brain's personal library, that is the books in his library as well as three other bibliographies. This compilation of book titles represents a lifetime's work of gathering books into a great jewelry/metals bibliography. We've included the bibliography he used for his 1985 paper of Gold applications, the 1990 Depletion Gilding paper bibliography and the 1999 bibliography for safety information for the jewelry trade used for the book The Jewelry Workshop Safety Report. It is an 18 page compilation of several book lists. © 2004. The first section lists title, author. The other lists are author, title, publisher etc. This is
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A Model Proposal for a Goldsmithing Program at a College or Technical School
This model document is a proposal for a technically oriented Jewelry or goldmithing program. It is an example of how to write a serious program proposal to government or other partners. It has a DACUM in it, the recognized tool used by NASA and the US marines for curriculum development, and has examples of curriculum modules, tool lists, equipment and more. It is in short a complete model of what kinds of things need to be included in a proposal for a new educational program. Hundreds of hours of work distilled into a 33 page document.
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Brain Drain
This is an image of the word 'Brain' on a manhole cover in Cape Cod. It has references to economics, the movement of trained professionals and teachers from one country to another. And a place to download your thoughts...
Download: $15.00
Art Print: $19.95
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