Book Recommendations - Stone setting

[ps_bond]

I would say my setting training was primarily made up of 3 styles - the setting DVDs by Blaine Lewis, the course I did with Tom Wellburn where traditional (graver-based) methods were taught and the course with Jura. There's lots of other influences - Sam Alfano's videos, every book I can get my hands on on the subject (incl. Wooding, which I'd describe as out-of-date) and kicking things around with other setters. By learning 3 or 4 ways to do rubover, for example, you've got a toolkit to tackle oddities.

Then quite a lot of practice

[Gemsetterchris]

I might make up a few PDF tutorials on how I go about stuff & plug them for some pocket money.
Obviously they take abit of doing, but if there is interest....

Keeping things simple & short / inexpensive.. thoughts?

[mizgeorge]

I might make up a few PDF tutorials on how I go about stuff & plug them for some pocket money.
Obviously they take abit of doing, but if there is interest....

Keeping things simple & short / inexpensive.. thoughts?

I think it's an excellent idea - this sort of thing sells very well on etsy as well.

[ps_bond]

Sounds a good idea; Hans Meevis is doing something similar. I would get them proof-read too... (Happy to do it if you want)

[Gemsetterchris]

Sounds a good idea; Hans Meevis is doing something similar. I would get them proof-read too... (Happy to do it if you want)

Good idea plus a bonus freebie for you, you clever boy.
Any idea the best "hosting" site for such things?

[ps_bond]

Good idea plus a bonus freebie for you, you clever boy.

So just give me the text to work with - I can't proof read photos

Hans delivers them by email, payment by Paypal, so the files themselves aren't hosted.

Do enough text and you could self-publish with someone like Blurb?

[Gemsetterchris]

Blurb? Ok, just looked it up & now we are getting serious
I was thinking hosted, so I can wash my hands of having to fire out emails all day (wishful thinking). ££££££££££££££`s

[ps_bond]

Lulu works - no idea what the costs are now though. Blurb is an interesting model - I've got the SNAG tech articles in a nice binding, printed on demand.

[mizgeorge]

Etsy. Very low fees and they autodeliver pdf tutorials for you.

[medusa]

here's a question. If there are three basic ways of stone setting, all of which have developed over millennia, no doubt, what makes a particular book or work-flow 'out of date'?

When answering, please bear in mind that I might have the Cogswell and Young books, but I haven't actually done any proper stone setting yet. Imagine explaining to (was going to say a 10 year old, but since Chris' son prob knows more than me, I'll say) a 5 year old.