Introduction to Precious Metals - Hardcover

Mark Grimwade

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1408122634 ISBN 13: 9781408122631

Publisher: A&C Black Visual Arts, 2010

Synopsis

This is the expanded edition of Mark Grimwade's ground-breaking 1985 book. It offers a solid introduction to the use of precious metals for students, professional jewellers and metalworkers. The author presents complex metallurgical concepts in ways that anyone working with precious metals can understand and apply. A genuine understanding of materials and the physics and chemistry related to them is necessary for the fostering of innovation which is so important in this field. Artists who work with precious metals are always trying to push the boundaries of what is possible and this book will help them to understand how to do just that.

About this title

Product Description:

Gold and silver have long been prized for their rarity and beauty but also for their resistance to corrosion and chemical reaction. This detailed examination of the properties of precious metals is designed to give jewellers and craftspeople a grounding in the physical, chemical and metallurgical nature of their materials, explaining, for example, how metals react to casting or working or how alloying can affect strength, malleability and colour.

Review:

'A solid introduction to the use of precious metals for students, professional jewellers and metalworkers.'
--Benchpeg Newsletter (Febuary 2010)

About this edition

• Publisher: A&C Black Visual Arts
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1408122634
• ISBN 13: 9781408122631
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224