[Jewelry making - Article 00096] - Re: [Orchid] Strange Customer Requests

[Daniel R. Spirer]

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I forgot two of my favorites:

    1) Got a phone call one afternoon from someone from MIT. They asked
    if we did platinum soldering. I said of course. They said they had a
    piece of a rocket that was made of platinum and needed to be
    soldered to fairly exacting specifications. They also said they
    needed it the next day and that they couldn't say anything else about
    what the project was. Being somewhat of a space nut I was sorely
    disappointed. Ended up staying until close to midnight to get it done
    for them. 

    2) Got another phone call from a guy at MIT. He said he was working
    on his thesis which involved the way that people see urban
    landscapes around them while they were walking. He had designed a
    piece that was connected to your feet and your head so that when you
    took a step with your left foot a shutter would open and close in
    front of your right eye and when you took a step with your right foot
    a shutter would open and close in front of your left eye. His problem
    was that the head piece was unwieldy and he also needed a way to be
    able to lift it up from in front of his eyes periodically. A jeweler
    buddy of mine and I sat down and brainstormed and then realized we
    had the perfect solution. Took apart one of our jeweler's Optivisors
    and attached his eye pieces to the front instead of the piece with
    our lenses. He was one happy guy. Sometimes it pays to be located in
    this bastion of all the great universities.

Daniel R. Spirer, G.G.
Daniel R. Spirer Jewelers, LLC
1780 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02140
www.spirerjewelers.com
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