[Jewelry making - Article 00229] - RE: [Orchid] Philadelphia jewelry classes

[Kat]

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>       Mark P. said that a GIA trained jeweler he hired would...
>     [major snippage] clean his entire bench and wash his hands
>     between each job. I could not break him of his time wasting,
>     unnecessary step taking habits. They taught him things that
>     were right on the money, but also things that were just plain
>     silly. 

    Washing his hands between each job?  We're taught to wash
    thoroughly between tripoli and rouge, but it's simple enough to
    do while you're cleaning the piece anyway, so I'm not sure what
    you mean by that... 

    As for cleaning his entire bench.  Chortle.  Guffaw.  You should
    see the student benches...we're taught to clean out the pan
    between jobs, but that's so they can track our metal usage, and
    it's made pretty clear.  I recall instructors talking about 1/2"
    thick filings, etc., and suggesting that cleaning more often
    makes it easier to find dropped stones, but what I understood
    *definitely* sounds like a personal quirk...I knew a guy who
    would consistently overpolish, and refused to work with tripoli
    because of it...just sat at the rouge for an hour at a time. 
    Absolutely nuts, and they couldn't train him out of it... 

Kat Tanaka
(who's working on getting faster...really)

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