2.Investment Casting - a technical advisory manual for goldsmiths.

By Lino Zorzi. Published 1995. English only. This has been replaced by the Handbook on Investment Casting (see Below)

Written by Italian experts in casting, this 44 page manual, illustrated in colour, covers all stages of the investment casting ('Lost Wax') process, gives practical advice on Best Practice and contains a section on trouble-shooting. Again, essential reading for those engaged in Investment casting of jewellery.

3. The Assaying and Refining of Gold - a guide for the gold jewellery producer.

By Peter Raw. Published 1997. Reprinted 2001. English only.
Cost £10/US$19.50/€13.50, including postage.

This 30 page booklet describes the various analytical techniques for determining the gold content ('fineness') of jewellery and their limitations. It also describes the various processes for refining of gold-bearing materials and scraps and their limitations in terms of what metals are not removed during refining and so what may find its way back into your new jewellery production.

4. Handbook on Casting and Other Defects in Gold Jewellery Manufacture.

By Dieter Ott. Published March 1998. Reprinted 2001. Italian edition 2002.
Cost £20/US$39/€27, including postage.

The Handbook is a mine of information on the common defects that can occur in jewellery production with emphasis on those occurring in casting. Written by a world expert on jewellery technology, Dieter Ott, it is presented as a series of actual Case Histories of defects. Each defect is fully described and well illustrated in colour, together with an explanation of its cause and recommendations for its prevention in future. Where appropriate, full metallographic investigation of the defect has been carried out and is described and illustrated. This book is unique and should be an essential reference book for all producers!

5. Finishing Handbook.

By Valerio Faccenda. Published March 1999. English & Italian editions available.
Cost £20 sterling/US$39/€27, including postage.

This is a comprehensive reference book on all aspects of finishing of jewellery, whether done manually on polishing wheels or by use of automated machine. Written by WGC technical consultant, Dr V.Faccenda, this Handbook covers the basic principles of polishing, types of polishing media, the major types of equipment and their characteristics. It includes electropolishing, electroplating and other chemical techniques. Again, this is a unique publication, illustrated in colour!

6.Handbook on Soldering.

By Mark F.Grimwade. Published January 2002
Cost £20 sterling/US$39/€27. English and Italian editions.

This is a comprehensive reference book on all aspects of finishing of jewellery, whether done manually on polishing wheels or by use of automated machine. Written by WGC technical consultant, Dr V.Faccenda, this Handbook covers the basic principles of polishing, types of polishing media, the major types of equipment and their characteristics. It includes electropolishing, electroplating and other chemical techniques. Again, this is a unique publication, illustrated in colour!

7. Handbook on Investing Casting

By Valerio Faccenda. Published 2003.
Cost £20 sterling/US$39/€27. English and Italian editions. OUT of STOCK. Please note that the first edition is available.

The latest technical handbook on gold jewellery manufacture has just been published and launched at the Santa Fe Symposium in May 2003. Seventh in the series of technical manuals and handbooks from World Gold Council, the new Handbook on Investment Casting, written by Dr V.Faccenda , with a chapter on casting alloys by Dieter Ott (formerly of FEM, Germany), is a comprehensive book on the latest technology developments and manufacturing best practice on the most widely used process in jewellery manufacture (also known as the lost wax casting process). It updates the older Investment Casting Manual and complements the Handbook on Casting and other Defects.

Lavishly illustrated in colour, the Handbook comprises about 100 pages in 6 chapters, describing in detail the various steps in the investment casting process (with guidelines and pitfalls), alloys for investment casting, equipment, list of manufacturers and suppliers and a comprehensive list of further reading. As with all the series of Handbooks, emphasis is given to the technology underlying the practical advice, so that practitioners are better able to solve their casting problems. For those involved in investment casting of jewellery, this book is an essential tool.