THE BOOK: Sprial-Bound, Elasticly closed and End-wrap protected, 299- pages. This is the "Professional" or "Teachers" Edition which provides the additional information to bring the metalsmiths knowledge level from student to professional. The chapters included all cover more and have more detailed (or how to do it simply) information. The chapters included are: Materials, Tools, Shaping, Surfaces, Joining, Color, Finishing, Casting, Stones & Stonesetting, Chains & Clasps, Findings & Mechanisms, and an Appendix and Index. If you have an interest in metalsmithing, this text will scratch it for years to come! THE DISC: The CD contains: Complete Metalsmith, Design Language, Practical Jewelry Rendering (a full text from a 1993-now-out-of-print book with 16 pages of step-be-step instructions on the techniques of rendering, and 30 pages of templates to aid in conceiving jewelry designs in the context of the human body), Metalsmith Suite Software (inculdes weight and lenght conversions, cost of metal calculator, casting needs calculator, drawing length calculator, tubing blank calculator, metal conversions calculator, gold alloying calculator, equivalent numbers chart, chart of metal properties, chart of gem properties, supplier addresses), Video Clips & all required software,