[Jewelry making - Article 00000] - Re: [Orchid] Bench Volcanos

[John Burgess]

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    G'day.   I was visiting my professional jeweller mate who had a test
    tube of gold from the local river.  A customer wanted two plain
    wedding rings made from it.   So he had a rod mould  on his bench
    waiting to cast a rod ingot, melted the stuff as usual with his
    torch, then poured it into the mould.  Now I was looking over his
    shoulder when the valuable stuff went flying past my ear with a hiss
    and a roar - I felt the heat of it as it luckily went past, .  He
    and I spent a good deal of the rest of the afternoon scraping gold
    off the floor, the wall and the ceiling, but we never found it all; 
    he had weighed what he'd been given first.  He (secretly)  used a
    bit of his own 18 ct gold to make up the loss. His theory was that
    the mould had a little water in it. He  forgot about telling the
    customer that his beautiful rings weren't entirely Motueka River
    Gold, but assured me under oath of secrecy that the local river gold
    was only 18 ct anyway; the rest, he said, was silver, copper and a
    little platinum. He stamped the rings with his logo and "18ct". 

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Cheers for now,
John Burgess;   johnb AT ts.co.nz of Mapua, Nelson NZ



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