[Jewelry making - Article 00850] - Re: [Orchid] Wearing your jewelry creations

[Thomas Janstrom]

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Hi Helen,

>     So I'm wondering, for those who don't particularly like jewellery,
>     how did you come to making jewellery for a career? 

    As a guy who makes jewellery, but doesn't normally wear any (I don't
    count the experimentals in testing) I got into this vocation by shear
    dint of not wanting to give up working with metals after a serious
    back injury, prior to this injury I was a blacksmith and foundry man.
    I have always loved to make things, I built a metal cutting lathe
    some years ago (it saddens somewhat me to think how long ago it is
    now that I finished that project!), so now that I can't work "heavy"
    metal I work with some of the heaviest metals (just in small
    amounts). 

    The other thing that grabbed me was the shear breadth of possibility
    that silver and gold (and platinum group metals) offer to the
    creative spark in a metal worker. All them sparkly stones we set have
    a part to play too, I had always loved the natural world of gems as
    it was anyway, so I suppose in a way that too was a reason to head
    down this road. 

    I won't say its been easy, I've had to find some off beat ways to do
    things because of my back, but I will say I won't do it any
    differently if I had to do it all over again!! 

Cheers, Thomas.
Janstrom Designs.
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