[Jewelry making - Article 00027] - Re: [Orchid] The incredibly shrinking Lapidary Journal

[Infinities]

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    Interestingly enough I had the pleasure of eating dinner with three
    of the wonderful ladies from LJ at the Tuscon orchid dinner last
    year. I really didn't get to do as much chatting as I wished I could
    have. One of the topics was if I was interested in submitting some
    step by step or other works. I honestly was in awe that they even took
    notice in my ideas.I see lots of fellow professionals in our trade
    write and publish everyday such as this forum or elsewhere. Good and
    bad..... 

    I would pick up all my favorite mags and mostly drool or raise my
    eyebrows, and sometimes smirk because I knew something they did
    not, etc. 

    Imagine where we would be without people like them to open our minds
    a little to something we have never seen. Does size really matter? 

    I personally like the quality of things as I try to put this into my
    work.You also have to understand that LJ has been around a long time
    and is well established in our community. I personally will keep on
    showing my support. 

    Also I think that it can be hard for some whom do not do lapidary to
    appreciate the mag.What would our trade be without the people who cut
    stones, and if they have no inspiration then what will we have...a
    beautiful piece of metal, maybe. 

    I still look at the old LJ's and want more of them. I just read again
    for the 100th time it seems the issue about mokume. It inspired me to
    push beyond and do what few have done in our present days...I know
    people who have never even heard of it, like blue diamonds, they have
    now been enlightened by a magazine and that opens lots of doors for
    all of us, thanks to a group of people who continue to publish. I
    sometimes dream a little dream that all I do is travel and look for
    stones in distant shores, and sit with the artisans of the world to
    see how it is still being done. I bring the pictures and stories back
    and put them in magazines, etc and I get paid to do this. Like
    discovery or something. (remember I am dreaming here) 

    I see people with "primitive" tools produce magnificent work and it
    still moves me. When I am at my bench with a million tools scratching
    my head and trying to figure it out again......... 

    So I say if ya don't like it then write your own magazine maybe. I am
    sure I would buy it too because there is really only a handful of
    magazines out there to even appreciate....Look at what we do here, its
    kinda short but the inpiration and wealth of information on Orchid is
    amazingly vast due to the hard work of a great team here, and to you
    the fellow orchidians who contribute.

Thank you
Sorry for the spill
Daniel Wade

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