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  • More Bench Tips for Jewelry Making: Proven Ways to Save Time and Improve Quality

    Bradford M. Smith

    eBook (Whimsey Wylde, May 16, 2018)
    Expand Your Jewelry Skills With Brad's "How To Do It" Books Learn how to create shortcuts and special tools to help save time andincrease the quality of your work. This second volume of Bench Tipspresents 86 of these solutions from the author's extensive teaching andshop experience."More Bench Tips" will help you get the most out of your tools, keep costs under control, and avoid common hazards. Thetips help save time and increase quality of work at the bench forjewelers with skill levels from beginner through advanced.
  • Life Hacks: Any Procedure or Action That Solves a Problem, Simplifies a Task, Reduces Frustration, Etc. in One's Everyday Life

    Keith Bradford

    Paperback (Adams Media, Nov. 18, 2014)
    As seen in Redbook Magazine Simple solutions to everyday problems!Wouldn't it be nice if there were a way to make life easier? With Life Hacks, you'll find hundreds of methods that you can start using right now to simplify your life. From folding a fitted sheet to removing scuffs from furniture, this book offers simple solutions to a variety of everyday problems. Each informative entry helps you discover quicker, more efficient techniques for completing ordinary tasks around the home, at the office, and just about anywhere. You'll also learn how to make the most out of any situation with fun, problem-solving tricks like creating an impromptu iPod speaker from toilet paper rolls or snagging a free doughnut at your local Krispy Kreme shop.Filled with 1,000 valuable life hacks, this book proves that you don't have to search very far for the perfect solution to everyday problems.
  • Bench Tips for Jewelry Making: 101 Useful Tips from Brad Smith

    Bradford M. Smith

    eBook (Whimsey Wylde, Nov. 10, 2012)
    Expand Your Jewelry Skills With Brad's "How To Do It" Books In every field the top artisans have their favorite ways of solving common problems. Making a piece of fine jewelry is no exception. The work is intricate, but accomplished jewelers have a variety of techniques, special tools and shortcuts that are proven to save time and improve the quality of your work. This book is written as a resource for jewelers with skill levels from beginner through advanced. The bench tips come from Brad Smith's 17 years of experience in the jewelry industry, including a decade teaching hundreds of students. They include over 20 ways to save time when soldering and polishing, 8 common hazards to avoid, many ways to cut costs, 10 tips to improve stone setting skills, and the "Must-Have" tools for increasing productivity at the bench.
  • Accessories for the Foredom and Dremel for Jewelry

    Bradford M. Smith

    eBook (Whimsey Wylde, Aug. 19, 2017)
    Expand Your Jewelry Skills With Brad's "How To Do It" BooksFlexible shaft and hand-held motor tools are a tremendous help to those who make jewelry, improving both the productivity and the quality of work. But with such a bewildering array of different tool bits to choose from, and new ones coming out every year, it's difficult to pick the best bits for each task.This book examines the wide range of tool bits available and discusses the merits of each. Discover the best drill bits to use, the three most useful cutting burs, six different types of sanding bits, five ways to polish your work with the Foredom or Dremel, and five bits that can be used to add texture to your jewelry pieces.In each category, Brad Smith shares his experience on which tool bits save the most time, tips for getting the best results, and cautions for safe use.
  • College Hacks

    Keith Bradford

    Paperback (Adams Media, Aug. 1, 2015)
    Hacks every college student needs to know!Want to ace your next exam? Claim victory as a beer pong champ? Remove that gross stain from your shirt before your interview? College Hacks gives you the tricks and tips you need to get ahead in life without breaking a sweat. Filled with hundreds of ways to simplify nearly every college situation, this guide tells you just what to do when your professor assigns you a twenty-page paper or you run out of clean dishes in your dorm room (chip bag bowl, anyone?). So stop making college harder than it should be! With these everyday hacks, you'll breeze through each semester as you finish assignments and tasks quicker than ever before!
  • More Bench Tips for Jewelry Making: Proven Ways to Save Time and Improve Quality

    Bradford M. Smith

    Paperback (Whimsey Wylde, May 16, 2018)
    This second volume of Bench Tips is written as a resource for jewelers with skill levels from beginner through advanced. In every field, top artisans have favorite ways of solving common problems. Making a piece of jewelry is no exception. Learn in this book how to create shortcuts and special tools to help save time and increase the quality of the work. These tips are from the author's extensive teaching and shop experience and will help you get the most out of your tools, keep costs under control, and avoid common hazards.
  • Life Hacks: Any Procedure or Action That Solves a Problem, Simplifies a Task, Reduces Frustration, Etc. in One's Everyday Life

    Keith Bradford

    eBook (Adams Media, April 15, 2014)
    Simple solutions to everyday problems!Wouldn't it be nice if there were a way to make life easier? With Life Hacks, you'll find hundreds of methods that you can start using right now to simplify your life. From folding a fitted sheet to removing scuffs from furniture, this book offers simple solutions to a variety of everyday problems. Each informative entry helps you discover quicker, more efficient techniques for completing ordinary tasks around the home, at the office, and just about anywhere. You'll also learn how to make the most out of any situation with fun, problem-solving tricks like creating an impromptu iPod speaker from toilet paper rolls or snagging a free doughnut at your local Krispy Kreme shop.Filled with 1,000 valuable life hacks, this book proves that you don't have to search very far for the perfect solution to everyday problems.
  • Bench Tips for Jewelry Making: 101 Useful Tips from Brad Smith

    Bradford M. Smith

    Paperback (Whimsey Wylde, Sept. 29, 2012)
    In every field the top artisans have their favorite ways of solving common problems. Making a piece of fine jewelry is no exception. The work is intricate, but accomplished jewelers have a variety of techniques, special tools and shortcuts that are proven to save time and improve the quality of your work.This book is written as a resource for jewelers with skill levels from beginner through advanced. The bench tips come from Brad Smith's 17 years of experience in the jewelry industry, including a decade teaching hundreds of students. 101 tips are detailed and illustrated with closeup pictures as ready solutions for common problems at the bench. They include over 20 ways to save time when soldering and polishing, 8 common hazards to avoid, many ways to cut costs, 10 tips to improve stone setting skills, and the "Must-Have" tools for increasing productivity at the bench.
  • Making Design Stamps for Jewelry

    Bradford M Smith

    Paperback (Whimsey Wylde, Nov. 2, 2016)
    Common jewelry tools and techniques can be used to make customized stamping and texturing tools that add visual interest to jewelry designs or leather work. Many artists are reluctant to work with steel, but there are few differences as compared to copper or silver. Once learned, unique stamps or texturing tools can be created for a special application, to accent your work in a unique way, or to brand your pieces with a stamp that others cannot purchase."Making Design Stamps For Jewelry" presents the step-by-step process of selecting best steels, carving the design, hardening the steel, and tempering the completed stamp to ensure a long service life. It describes the tools to use, gives detailed examples for making several design stamps, includes sources for purchasing tool steel, describes useful shop equipment, and offers tips for saving time and achieving better quality.
  • The Return of Kid Cooper: A Novel

    Brad Smith

    eBook (Arcade Publishing, Feb. 27, 2018)
    A man of the Old West confronts a new world: “A powerful novel, fully felt and beautifully written” (T. Jefferson Parker, New York Times–bestselling author of The Last Good Guy). A Western Writers of America 2019 Spur Award Winner This novel from an author Dennis Lehane calls “a writer to watch, a comet on the horizon” tells the story of Nate Cooper, an old-school cowboy released from a Montana prison in 1910, having served nearly thirty years on a wrongful murder conviction. He can see the world has changed—horses giving way to motorcars, his old nemesis running for governor, his girl marrying his best friend—but Nate’s moral compass is still unwavering. He does all the wrong things for all the right reasons. So when he returns to his town to find the Blackfoot Indians—the people he went to prison trying to defend—are still being cheated out of their territory by ranchers, Nate can’t just stand by. With grit, determination, a quick trigger finger, and the help of the woman he used to love, he sets out to settle the score and force some justice into the changing world. Before long, though, he’ll discover that justice doesn’t come cheap. “The Return of Kid Cooper can claim a secure place in the canon of literature of the American West. Brad Smith’s tale of old-fashioned courage and western justice is reminiscent, in its high drama, wit, and splendid idiosyncrasy, of Lonesome Dove. I was reminded also of Annie Proulx’s laconic Wyoming stories, and that most iconic of Western loners, Shane.” —John Hough Jr., author of Little Bighorn “A compelling, action-packed romp through politics, romance, morality and history.” —Toronto Star
  • Making Design Stamps for Jewelry

    Bradford M. Smith

    eBook (Whimsey Wylde, Nov. 11, 2016)
    Expand Your Jewelry Skills With Brad's "How To Do It" Books Common jewelry tools and techniques can be used to make customized stamping and texturing tools that add visual interest to jewelry designs or leather work. Learn the step-by-step process of selecting best steels, carving the design, hardening the steel, and tempering the completed stamp to ensure a long service life."Making Design Stamps" describes the tools to use, gives detailed examples for making several design stamps, includes sources for purchasing tool steel, describes useful shop equipment, and offers tips for saving time and achieving better quality.Many artists are reluctant to work with steel, but there are few differences as compared to copper or silver. Once learned, unique stamps or texturing tools can be created for a special application, to accent your work in a unique way, or to brand your pieces with a stamp that others cannot purchase.
  • Accessories for the Foredom and Dremel for Jewelry

    Bradford M. Smith

    Paperback (Whimsey Wylde, Aug. 16, 2017)
    Flexible shaft and hand-held motor tools are a tremendous help to those who make jewelry, improving both the productivity and the quality of work. But with such a bewildering array of different tool bits to choose from, and new ones coming out every year, it's difficult to figure out which is the best bit to use for a particular task. This book examines the wide range of tool bits available and discusses the merits of each. Discover the best drill bits to use, the three most useful cutting burs, six different types of sanding bits, five ways to polish your work with the Foredom® or Dremel®, and five bits that can be used to add texture to your jewelry pieces.In each category, Brad Smith shares his experience on which tool bits save the most time, bench tips for getting the best results, and cautions for safe use.