Creating Wooden Jewelry: 24 Skill-Building Projects and Techniques Paperback – Illustrated, 10 Dec. 2019

This book features some interesting techniques and lovely pictures, but is definitely not aimed at the beginner. You would need some experience of both jewellery-making and woodworking to be able to replicate any of the pieces.Many of the projects feature large, chunky wearable wood, and although striking and impressive they were not the sort of thing I'd consider wearing. They look big and uncomfortable, designed to be statement pieces which would look great on someone else.The techniques are explained very well and photographed beautifully, however the long list of tools required for each piece is off-putting and a bit scary. Most people don't have a workshop with a belt sander, lathe, band saw, pillar drill and riveting hammer, but the author does mention that there are community workshops in many towns which would have the equipment and hopefully some friendly faces to get you started.There is a great chapter on "decorating wood" which does not require lots of tools, and the methods shown are quite simple. I will definitely give some of them a try. Other positives are the use of 'found wood' and easily-obtainable wooden spoons.I'm giving this 3 stars but perhaps I'm being mean as it's both beautiful and well-organised, and no doubt lots of other readers will love the big, chunky pieces.