[Jewelry making - Article 00629] - Re: [Orchid] Funding for classes?

[Timothy .]

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    Funding for classes , First thing is I=92m not a good example of a
    jeweler as compared to the real jewelers on this board but I was at
    a bench in a real store for 1 year before the store closed .I was
    hired over the phone site unseen * L *  boy were they surprised when
    I came in with only one arm , but they were stuck and I got a chance
    to show what I could do , I don=92t see that ever happening again. But
    I started out as the original poster did with just 1 basic fab.
    class .Then due to a wreck that left me with one arm and a bad leg
    and a doctor that told me I=92d have to give up any thought of
    becoming a jeweler. A school that would not make exceptions for my
    major that was Art with an emphisis on Jewelry Design and Metal
    smithing , I could handle the Jewelry aspects but not the sculpture
    classes .I just couldn=92t hold a chisel and hammer at the same time .
    Three years of school wasted and no funding to repeat the 3 years to
    major in another field of which I had no desire to do , I love
    jewelry. Anyway I was sent to voc rehab which was trying to assist
    me in getting into a jewelry school here in Ky but later found the
    school was not state accredited so that fell through and then the 
    head of voc rehab said point blank =93 I could never do jewelry work
    with one hand so neither could you . So for us to assist you in this
    field would be a waste of our money=94  I know this was the long way
    to get to the answer I was originally posting but just setting the
    background. I decided to try to educate myself in jewelry as best I
    could so I started by visiting pawn shops and buying their scrap
    gold jewelry , with this I then had the jewelry to repair with no
    chance of loosing much if any money since buying it at scrap price
    it was still worth scrap if I made a mistake . The items I repaired
    I then took back to the shop and sold back at a slight profit , then
    bought more and repeated the process .This went well until the owner
    figured out what I was doing decided he could make more money if he
    did this himself and stopped selling to me .But this did give me
    time to gain some knowledge , buy some Items to work with and a few
    good books .If you look at the top of the bench exchange page 2
    you=92ll see it didn=92t do a lot but helped .I did get enough knowled=
ge
    to do the repair work for a year by myself at the store mentioned
    above So you might think about trying the buy , repair then sell
    method , you may have better luck in funding yourself than I did.

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