[Jewelry making - Article 01474] - Re: [Orchid] How did you become a jeweler?

[Sam]

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    Well, for me it started with a series of books by Michael Scott
    Rohan where the hero figure is a metalsmith. I was already interested
    in metals and stones but the stories just focused these intrerests.
    Probably just as well coz' I was seriously considering joining the
    SAS in England at the time. I looked around and saw that there was no
    place to learn blacksmithing so joined the jewelry class at the local
    Technikon. After 3 years od study, I got my diploma but discovered
    the negative stigma in the trade against those who were not
    apprentices. So I spent 9 years doing various jobs, enginering
    injection moulds for shoe soles, working in Fimo to make beads and
    now I've been back in the trade for 2 years and am loving it.
    Although my second love, knifemaking is calling loud and clear now. I
    guess wherever one is there is always something else to learn and
    knifemaking seems to need all my skills and more. So there lies my
    next adventure :) 

Sam Turner
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