[Jewelry making - Article 00230] - Re: [Orchid] Is white gold really hot?

[Lee]

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>     At this point, I don't do anything custom, just what I want to
>     build, and I work only with colored gemstones. I really don't
>     like/can't afford diamonds right now (I've never liked diamonds -
>     they're as common as coal) so I don't work with them. I'm not sure
>     I want to do custom or commission work. It's just not my game plan.
>     That may change with time, but I need my business to evolve
>     further first. 

    Brian, if you dislike diamonds because of their "common-ness", you
    should down-right HATE just about all colored stones, the lower
    qualities of which are incredibly common, generally worthless, and
    used as driveway gravel around the world. How many kilotons of junk
    rubies, sapphires, emeralds, amethysts, garnets, tourmalines, etc.,
    etc., etc., would you like to buy for a few dollars a pound? Shipping
    kind of eats into the profits, but these materials are far more
    common than diamonds at the mine sites. Attractive diamonds are also
    much more scarce than any of the normally commercially available
    jewelry quality colored stones. 

    How about silver? Pretty loathsome stuff, with an estimated
    534,130,000 ounces mined in the year 2000 alone. I'm sure you
    wouldn't want to debase your art by contaminating it with such a
    common material. 

    You consider yourself to be an artist - I am sorry to tell you, but
    a great artist can find beauty and meaning in not only the most rare,
    but also the most common of objects. As it is, your self-imposed
    limits serve as blinders to a much wider world of art full of passion
    and wonder, innocence and beauty, life and spiritual growth. I
    sincerely hope that you can one day fully experience that world. 

Lee Cornelius
Vegas Jewelers
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