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First published over seventy years ago and reprinted many times over the years, with some updates and additions, this practical book is of interest to everyone who is connected with silver in any way. It explains the basic processes which are used by all silversmiths, whether they be individual craftsmen or mass-producers. Design is treated indirectly, so that the student or apprentice, who is following the lessons in the book will begin to understand the principles and problems of good design as he or she progresses. The principles underlying the use of machines and mass-production are given, although they are not treated in great detail. These machines are important, even to the craftsmen, because they relieve the silversmith of much laborious and dull manual work. However, their powers and limitations must be clearly understood, and the student must appreciate when it is aesthetically necessary to do work by hand. This important textbook, packed with many modern designs of numerous styles for all types of domestic silverware, should be beside every amateur and student silversmith at work.
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'Mr Bernard Cuzner is perhaps the best known designer-craftsman of the generation which produced Harold Stabler, H.G. Murphy, Omar Ramsden, R.M.Y. Gleadowe and others who are now gone. He has inspired in his teaching and by the standard of quality of all the work he has ever produced, many younger men whose names are now becoming well known.' (From the Foreword to the 1948 edition by G.R. Hughes, Clerk to the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths). Bernard Cuzner died in 1956. Anthony Elson trained first at Brighton College of Art and then at the Royal College of Art, London in 1963, where he was awarded the Silver Medal for geometrical decoration. He is now one of the foremost designers of silverware in Great Britain and specializes in holloware. He has executed commissions for many of the Livery Companies and created the silver for the Council Rooms of the new London Stock Exchange. Abroad he has produced work for America, Canada, Europe, Nepal and the Middle East. He is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and a designer of the Royal College of Art.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I simply have to leave a review to counter balance the only one here as of yet. This is a book about silversmithing and the involved techniques for corpus work. It has a lot to offer those who wish to understand the necessary techniques as well as the thinking and planning needed before embarking - thus it will save you a lot of time and money!
For those of you lucky enough to have been apprentices of a silversmith, this will be a reminder of how you learned, for those of you who now have to learn at classes - this book shows you how it should be done. It has all of the guild feeling and will guide you well towards a good grasp of the profession. But there are other books out there too - I would have given this a four, but considering the other very unfair and irrelevant review the average will now be a four.
This book is useful, interesting and does sometimes feel a little old. However, I do think one should understand all the processes shown... and if you are the slightest bit imaginative, you will see, it actually informs jewellers too. Metal doesn't change it's nature with the scale... your tools will though, slightly.
For those of you lucky enough to have been apprentices of a silversmith, this will be a reminder of how you learned, for those of you who now have to learn at classes - this book shows you how it should be done. It has all of the guild feeling and will guide you well towards a good grasp of the profession. But there are other books out there too - I would have given this a four, but considering the other very unfair and irrelevant review the average will now be a four.
This book is useful, interesting and does sometimes feel a little old. However, I do think one should understand all the processes shown... and if you are the slightest bit imaginative, you will see, it actually informs jewellers too. Metal doesn't change it's nature with the scale... your tools will though, slightly.
Format:Hardcover
The Silversmith's Manual is a little starchy to read and is poorly illustrated, but it was written eighty years ago.
As metal hasn't changed over the last eighty years, the infomation in it is as upto date as any modern book. It contains chapters on the tools, soldering, piercing and chasing along with several exercises to work through explaining the processes for each exercise.
It is a book that you return to time after time, a classic work.
As metal hasn't changed over the last eighty years, the infomation in it is as upto date as any modern book. It contains chapters on the tools, soldering, piercing and chasing along with several exercises to work through explaining the processes for each exercise.
It is a book that you return to time after time, a classic work.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Excellent reference!
30 Mar 2000
Format:Hardcover
This is THE guide for the beginner silversmith! Of all the books out there, you'll definitely need this one! Bernard Cuzner writes in an easy-to-read manner and includes in-depth information to make silversmithing easier. If you don't have it, get it!
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