[Jewelry making - Article 00160] - Re: [Orchid] How others got started in jewelry making?

[Dar Shelton]

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    It was a movie about Navajos that I saw in 8th grade that got me
    interested. The tufa carving and casting looked like the coolest
    thing to do. I already had a welding torch and was pretty
    arty/crafty/technical and jewelry seemed like a fun direction. A
    lucky find of an outcropping of tufa stone right in the city started
    things off well, and my stepfather adding on a workshop helped a
    lot, plus he knew people in jewelry , so I got a summer job at 14
    working for a silversmith. I was a real primadonna in high school
    ,making one-of-kind pieces (with a flair for complicated overlay,
    which by the way, didn't seem to help much when it later came time to
    become the world's most prolific pancake die sawyer ) but got a dose
    of reality after that in the real world, at a real job as a
    production bench silversmith. I had a lot to learn and was almost let
    go, until I got the hang of doing things fast. 

Dar
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