[Jewelry making - Article 00475] - Re: [Orchid] Milling your own or buying stock

[R . E . Rourke]

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    All too often people that call themselves goldsmiths, silversmiths or
    jewelers lack the basics necessary to actually smith the metals into
    something useable then design what they have smithed into jewelry. I
    agree that without the skills to manufacture your own materials to
    predictable results - every time - a goldsmith cannot call themselves
    a goldsmith. A jeweler knows how to fabricate from metals, stones,
    etc. a smith starts from the elements and produces to finish more
    than simple jewelers. anyone that can't alloy and reuse their scrap
    should not claim that they are a smith of metals. semantics. perhaps,
    but to depend on a supplier for your lifeblood seems like one is
    missing the mark of the range of sciences and arts it takes to call
    oneself a goldsmith, or pass any tests to that effect that ascertain
    in black and white, and a final tangible representation of those
    skills and lessons and chemistry involved in rounding out an
    individual's skills repertoire and it's completeness or lack thereof.

RER
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