[Jewelry making - Article 00040] - Re: [Orchid] Primitive technologies

[Tony Konrath]

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    I was In Egypt some time ago - being hustled into buying a carpet as
    usual - when my guide found out that I was  a goldsmith. He rushed
    me round to his cousins workshop and a saw was thrust into my hand
    and I was asked to prove my credentials by cutting out a diamond
    setting in a ring shank. 

    Having done that they then gave me a small bottle of paraffin and a
    mouthpiece and asked me to solder a shank and a setting together.
    "That's how we make our children do it! The old way!" 

    I'd learnt my soldering at a night class in Richmond UK and there
    was a shortage of torches - so the teacher had shown me how to make a
    paraffin wick torch and I'd practiced it. 

    Ten minutes later I was a confirmed "primitive" goldsmith and was
    lionized by the entire street. 

Tony Konrath
Key West Florida 33040


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