[Jewelry making - Article 00344] - Re: [Orchid] Jeweler's former lives

[Dar Shelton]

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    Actually, I was a jeweler in my former life. It wasn't really much of
    a life ; more of a train wreck, highlited by years of drug and
    alcohol abuse, heartbreak and disappointment. No point in going on
    about that, except to say that I died and was reborn in a rehab
    clinic and have been a very good boy ever since (1988). But I'm not a
    jeweler now, I'm your friendly neighborhood pancake die maker, The
    Sheltech Guy. 

    What got me started in jewelry was a video I saw in 8th grade that
    showed Navajo craftsmen doing tufa carving and casting. Then I got a
    summer job for a friend of my stepfather who was a jeweler. Basic
    Native American silversmithing. Being unmotivated to go to college I
    got a job as a smith out of high school, and worked for several
    places over the next 10 years, doing a lot of production work,
    modelmaking, and such. 

    Sheltech was started in 1987 (happy 20th to me !!!) while I was
    working with two guys in a partnership. We were looking for easier
    ways to make parts for jewelry, and being rather good at such things,
    I got good at making pancake dies. And the rest is no mystery. 

Dar Shelton
http://www.sheltech.net
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