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- Lovely Marriage of Creation and Design of Glass Beads
I'm a glass beadmaker which means I use a torch to melt glass. I tend to call my glass, "flamework glass" but historically, melting glass with a torch has been called lampwork. Although modern lampwork artists sometimes prefer to describe what they do as "flamework glass" author Karen Leonardo calls it "lampwork" - it's all the same techniques and set up.

The book opens with setting up your studio. Kudos to Ms. Leonardo for writing the best set up chapter of any book I've seen on lampworking. Critical for any new flameworker is the set up of the torch. Leonardo includes pictures of how to safely connect the torch and propane tank. Once you've set up your torch you're ready to make your first bead in Chapter 2. Again, Leonardo has written a good chapter with fine basic steps. Various techniques from beginner to intermediate are included in Chapter 3. A sheep bead, a boro bead and the ever popular double helix reactive glass in fire and ice flow tab bead. The book transitions to making jewelry with the glass beads you've created in Chapters 2 and 3. First though, Chapter 4 introduces jewelry basics. Chapter 5 includes jewelry projects using the glass beads you've made in previous chapters. I like the Santorini Fossils Necklace using wire. The Deep Woods Wirewok Pin was nice too. I wonder if the silk cord in the Pond and Sea Necklace really holds the weight of the silver beads.

All in all, Karen Leonardo has written a lovely book marrying how to make glass beads with how to use glass beads in jewelry.

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- Excellent
This book is excellent. I am a beginner at lampworking and this book has showed me different ways of making beads and the instructions are excellent. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in learning how to do lampworking.

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- A great launching place for bead and jewelry designers!
Karen has written a wonderful book that walks you through several jewelry projects via easy to understand directions with excellent photos. This book is unique in that it shows the reader how to make a lampwork bead -- step by step -- and then walks the reader through how to create a necklace or bracelet that is the perfect showcase for the bead. I think this book is an excellent addition to any jewelry designer and/or lampworker's library. The ideas contained within it have so many applications! It's a terrific book!

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- there are far better books on the market
the techniques shown in this book are elementary and few in number-- this book may be of interest to the beginner, but has nothing to offer the more experienced lampworker--save yourself the cost of having to return this book--

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