Specialty Offers For Multi-Course Suites
in Gem Faceting and Jewelry Making


In this section, you'll find attractive savings - including DIY plans - as well as tutorials leading to a comprehensive introduction to the popular forms and techniques of making jewelry.

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Complete SixSuite of Jewelry Making Tutorials - $99.50

 With This Suite, You Can be Proficient in Major Styles of Jewelry Making


Whether for personal satisfaction or for profit, it pays to have versatility when it comes to designing and making fine jewelry. Here is an opportunity - a SixSuite featuring the most complete and far ranging collection of instructions in the jewelry industry. It will enable you to become highly proficient in all of the major jewelry making techniques.



Strictly for the creative individual interested in developing a professional level skill capability with the popular methods, Gerald Wykoff's new 6-Course Professional Jewelry Making Suite represents the biggest and only such instructional program in the jewelry industry.

Just spend some time and attention with the contents of this massive package and there are few major ways of making commercial level jewelry that will escape your expertise.

The multi-media 6-disk course, formatted in Adobe PDF, utilizes video, sound, text, pictures and illustrations to provide a complete set of instructions for the following methods:


  1. The Basics of Wire Wrapping - this is a basic course in effective wire wrapping skills, presenting the fundamentals as well as various advanced techniques in using and manipulating half-round and square jewelry wire to make pendants, rings, ear rings, bracelets, pins, etc. Wire wrapping, of course, is a universally appreciated jewelry making technique because it's applicable both to faceted as well as cabochon gems. Indeed, by mixing wire wrapping and wire artistry, one can produce highly refined all-wire jewelry.



  2. Making Jewelry With Round Wire - if wire wrapping investment seems a bit pricey, then try a new, strategic application of round wire. Round wire requires fewer tools, less inventory and can be much less expensive than conventional wire wrapping types. For instance, you can even use silver finished floral bundling wire which costs $2-$3 for a spool containing some 300 feet - enough wire to make dozens of jewelry items. This course also introduces specialized braiding techniques for making gem mountings. There are also ingenious methods for ring making, pins, etc.



  3. Making Jewelry With Silk/Fabric - fabrics have enjoyed a long - albeit not a particularly widespread - role in jewelry making, but this tutorial offers an alternative approach to using soft, beautiful cloth materials . . . and some of these techniques include various braiding methods, silk wrap, knotting, weaving (even a crochet tactic) that are highly effective for making gemstone mountings and finished designs. It's especially effective with persons possessing some existing sewing skills.



  4. Making Jewelry With Wood - put away your mental images of big, clumsy and klunky wood bead jewelry. This new in-depth tutorial shows you how to use special wood laminating processes - along with an American wood bundle adaptation of the ancient Scottish heather gems method - for making exquisite, complex and colorfully designed jewelry. Just look at some of the illustrations here and you can see that these wood jewelry designs aren't your standard wood renditions. Furthermore, your investment in wood can be as high or as modest as you wish (for wood bundling, you can break dead limbs off a tree).



  5. Making Jewelry With Square Wire - Here is a uniqe jewelry making system that takes advantage of the classic look of 14 gage German-Silver wire to produce stark, dramatic gem mountings which possess all the visual impact of cast or gold smith created metal jewelry. The course covers the heavy gage wire constrution - using special metal glues as well as soldering (for those who prefer solder) - and also gives full emphasis on the use of smaller gage gold square wire. This style of jewelry making lends itself especially well to making mountings that showcase faceted gems.



What makes a combination suite that incorporates the different jewelry making processes so valuable is the obvious ability it provides to an artisan for moving back and forth, mixing the styles that will advance a particular design content. For example, take a look at the colorful bundled wood jewelry pieces above and you'll see that the items feature a bail only, a silk cage, a round wire cage, a bezel strip bail. There is even a wire wrapped wood jewelry pendant.

As a free bonus with this kit - the 6th course - the tutorial contents will also include the complete CD-ROM tutorial on Advanced Wire Artistry (this is NOT wire wrapping - although there is some advanced wire wrapping details) whose features include wire spring making, bending, sculptoring and shaping as well as a complete tutorial on Egyptian-Peruvian wire coiling (with instructions for making two types of DIY wire coilers). This tutorial alone is a $25 value.



The actual value of the six courses if purchased separately is $150 but for auction purposes, the starting price has been set at only $99.95 - a savings of almost two free programs. If you're truly interested in becoming a jewelry making artisan, the Five Suite could be the answer to your hopes. SixSuite of Jewelry Making - $99.50 Ea.






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    		 EightSuite Gem Faceting Course

      In many instances, people who would like to pursue a gem faceting adventure just don't know how or where to start especially since faceting can prove expensive if it's approached without a good understanding.

      To answer this problem, here is the gem cutting industry's most comprehensive introduction to the challenging and rewarding art of faceting. It's a 7-disc tutorial - plus over a dozen PC computer programs dedicated to gem cutting issues - that's been written and assembled by the internationally renowned gem cutting guru, Dr. Gerald Wykoff GG CSM (Graduate Gemologist, Certified Supreme Master Gemcutter). The entire program of CD-ROMs even includes a free bonus - the 7th disc - consisting of Wykoff's own Video on Faceting.

      All this - and the entire collection of CD-ROM tutorials plus the 8th element consisting of a whopping 13 PC computer programs on gem cutting and crystals can be inexpensively yours at only a fraction of their $460 retail price value if purchased separately.

      "In the last several years that I've been offering faceting tutorials and assembly kits," Wykoff explained, "I have been flooded with emails from truly interested folks asking me for a quick intro into faceting. It's virtually impossible to explain it all in an email - the equipment and accessories, faceting, transferring, cutting-polishing lap changes, dopping design theory and numbering, indexing.

      "As a result, I've put together this EightSuite Faceting Course and now any individual can come to a solid understanding of the faceting process - both the traditional jamb pegging and the contemporary protractor type of faceting."



      With the EightSuite Course, you can immerse yourself in all aspects of faceting while learning techniques not even available elsewhere. Furthermore, the course includes a full CD on how to make your own wood version of the famed Calibrated Jamb Peg faceting unit. No other courses in the world offers the theory and backgrounding for faceting but also includes plans for building a faceting unit as well as a power platform and diamond cutting laps. With this program, you'll save thousands of wasted dollars by learning all about faceting technique and then save thousands of dollars by easily and quickly making a working faceting machine.

      With the course, you receive CD tutorials in the following subjects:

      1. Master Faceting - this CD is a direct full-length conversion and updating of Wykoff's famous "Faceting Bible" book: "Master Techniques of Faceting". It covers all aspect of the faceting arts explaining the inside master's techniques which involve index gears and their conversion factors, crsystallography, optics, performing the complementary facetng skills such as dopping, transferring, polishing, pre-forming, even diamond cutting.

      2. Master Polishing - another full-length CD conversion and updating of Wykoff's famous "Master Gem Polishing" book. In faceting, it's said, "nothing happens until the final polish." That's when gemstones come alive under the hands of a capable faceter and it pays to know and understand - and respond to - the personalities of the different gems. Every gemstone type that is facetable is extensively covered in this huge reference.

      3. The Skills of Jamb Peg Faceting - the jamb peg method has ruled the world's professional faceting trade for eight centuries - and is still the preferred technique. Wykoff, a jamb pegger for four decades, owns the only patent ever given for jamb pegging for solving the inherant guessing game in angles. He did it by introducing trigonometry into the jamp peg's mechanical makeup. As a result jamb pegging can now be learned in hours not years and this CD course provides the ins-outs of successful jamb peg faceting.

      4. Making a Power Platform - whether you approach faceting with a jamb peg or a protractor head, you still need a power platform to drive the abrasive-polishing disks - and this can be expensive. This CD tutorial shows you how to make your own power platform, not an especially daunting challenge. Furthermore, Wykoff's design and plans (see short video above) allows for a hand powered or an electric motor driven platform.

      5. How to Make Your Own Diamond Laps - You gotta have diamond cutting laps and they can cost a small fortune. They aren't expensive at all, though, if you know how to make your own laps. This CD provides supplier sources while showing you just how to produce your own selection of high quality, efficient diamond laps - and even how to make GREAT cutting/polishing laps out of throw away computer CD-ROM disks. Make two diamond laps with an investment of about five dollars and you've paid for the EightSuite Faceting Course.


      6. How to Make a Calibrated Jamb Peg Faceting Unit - if you're the least bit handy in the workshop, you can make your own patented CJP out of wood. The instructions on this CD are simple to follow and you'll end up with a faceting head that is fully capable of turning out professional level gems. It's a great learning machine and later, perhaps, you might want Wykoff's all-metal CJP assembly kit for something more durable.

      7. Video on Faceting - Once you view this video you'll understand why it's a free bonus and not offered for sale. That's because the video quality and sound are really poor. It was filmed 20 years ago with an old super 8mm camera and the footage was converted in a quality-wrecking conversion to modern digital. Yet, while the quality is poor, the information conveyed is as good as tomorrow morning. It's a wonderful introduction to faceting, especially jamb pegging - if you can get past the technical shortcomings.

      8. FACMATH - this is anothe free bonus, consisting of 13 PC computer software programs written by Wykoff which allow you to perform some mathematically precise investigations into crystal wave and light behavior, index conversions, light gain and light loss, various techniques for computing angles. Yes, the underlying math is complex but the Q & A format enables a non-mathematician to utilize the equations easily and accurately. You just punch in what you want to know and the computer performs the math.


      If you wish to know - really know! - the aspects of gem faceting, this EightSuite Faceting Course will deliver the information. Armed then with a solid, comprehensive understanding of what's involved, you can make a reasoned judgement about proceeding into an art form that is exciting, challenging, rewarding - and beautiful. Until you know the unmatchable thrill that come with cleaning the cutting debris off a polished gemstone that you just cut, you'll never understand the creative process. _________________


      EightSuite Faceting Course - $109.95


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