[Jewelry making - Article 00452] - Re: [Orchid] Proper tattoo for a goldsmith

[Beth Rosengard]

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Hi Marty,

    This isn't a matter of age! 

>     When i finished I looked up to see one of the youngsters standing
>     with jaw dropped in a perfect portrayal of shocked disbelief. What
>     was the problem? "You mean you can cut metal?!" she blurted out.
>     She had managed to reach the age of 16 or so, in our world, without
>     that fact ever having occurred to her. 

    When I took my first metalsmithing class in 1991 at the age of, it
    had never occurred to me that you could cut metal by hand with a saw.
    Saws were for wood, not something as hard as metal! 

    If I'd thought about it, I would have expected that cutting metal
    demanded some kind of power tool. (Never mind how it was done before
    power tools existed -- I wouldn't even have considered that issue!)
    It's a matter of ignorance, not age. 

Beth
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