[Jewelry making - Article 00091] - Re: [Orchid] Organizing a Lapidary-Metalsmithing School

[rcjewelry]

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Dear Char,

    I opened up a jewelry & lapidary school last April in the Asheville,
    NC area. 

    1. Get liability insurance 

    2. Buy multiples of used tools for students to use and abuse. Make
    sure you have one more set of tools than students. 

    3. Do NOT share your personal tools with students, especially the
    hard to replace (obscure-no longer made) ones. 

    4. Contact Dremel for reconditioned flex shaft Dremels- they work
    great & are cheaper than foredom. 

    5. SAFETY FIRST & VENT,VENT,VENT!!!!!!!!!! 

    6. Promotion is your middle name. Learn to write a press release and
    use it! 

    7. Build a website. I did it, so can you. Check out mine-
    www.mmsjl.com The Mountain Metalsmiths School of Jewelry & Lapidary 

    8. Contact your local arts council or community college for possible
    space. I'm lucky, I have a sizeable studio so I can max out on 6
    students at a time. 

    9. Nasty reality but necessary- Lock up materials. Hard to keep
    track if people have you jumping in 4 different directions. 

    I see you have been to NC on your website. If you plan on coming
    this way, let us know and come on down to see what we've done. 

    Good luck- big endeavor! It took us 14 months to open, from
    planning, buying equipment, building,printing brochures, yakking it
    up everywhere. You will get many prank phone calls, MORE SPAM. But,
    I love teaching and the reward of seeing that light bulb go off in a
    student's eyes is PRICELESS!!!!! 

    PS. We are doing this on our own shoestring budget. Takes longer but
    it's starting to pay off. 

Ruthie Cohen
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