[Jewelry making - Article 00920] - Re: [Orchid] Just blame it on the Jeweler

[Kenneth Ferrell]

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Michael;

    Quite a few years ago I was working as a bench jeweler at a very
    busy shop in the fashionable Napa Valley. 

    The shop owner had a rather bad habit of letting his bull dog mouth
    over load his Chihuahua hind end when it came to promising repair or
    custom order delivery, consequently I would quite often take work
    home with me and do it in my shop at home. 

    One evening I was accosted by an irate customer as I was getting in
    my vehicle to go home for the day, after a slight discussion about
    the bulge in my jacket that I had my hand on, he explained why he was
    so put out. I went back into the store, had the counter girl pull his
    envelope and check it. The job had been promised over a week before
    and the guy was getting married that Sunday, this was 5:30 Friday
    afternoon and no one was on the bench Saturday. 

    All it required was set a stone in a mount no resize or any thing, a
    10 minute job that nearly cost a man his life, seems he had been told
    on several occasions that the job was on the jeweler's bench but he
    hadn't finished it yet. 

    The following Monday I went to work in Benicia at a shop that took
    care of it's customers orders and have never had another experience
    like that. 

Kenneth Ferrell

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