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 Post subject: Greetings from Mexico!
PostPosted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 1:58 am 
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Hello, guys! I started to get into jewelry and gemology just recently. I don't have any peculiar interests right now but I'm sure they'll come in time :) Anyways, I'd love to make a friend or two. I'm a pretty chatty person! It's just a hobby for me but hopefully I'll be able to afford formal jewelry courses soon. I've been reading posts for a couple hours already and this place seems exactly like my kind of deal. I hope I can learn the ropes quickly. Thanks for reading :D


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 Post subject: Re: Greetings from Mexico!
PostPosted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 6:42 pm 
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So glad you found us.
Clearly, you have already joined right in.
Keep it up!


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 Post subject: Re: Greetings from Mexico!
PostPosted: Wed Sep 27, 2017 12:34 am 
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Thank you again, Barbra! You were very helpful and patient with me :) I'm going to finish reading the book I had and see if I can get some cheap natural stone samples to start with the other book you mentioned. It's been a busy week at college but I'm doing some steady progress :D Today I read that little snippet of the book I think you posted on jewelry making (a small introduction to precious metals, names of techniques and safety measures). I'm waiting for another loupe (with a different magnification) with an UV light. It's not really shortwave but it came included with it and the product itself wasn't expensive at all. I'm not sure what to save up for next. Maybe my own digital caliper cause my dad is pretty protective of his tools, lol.

On another note my college just opened a stone setting course and I hope I can eventually take it. After 2 weeks of searching I finally tracked down the person in charge - it seems he travels a lot. The department didn't have a refractometer or even a scale I could use. And well, he's a jeweler, not a gemologist, so I couldn't get much info. He offered me 2 courses for the price of one (stone setting+silver smiting) cause they're starting next week and they need to fill spots. But I have some classes that clash with it. Plus even after the discount it's pretty expensive (3 months cost what I pay for 6 semesters of tuition after scholarship!). Still, the course is a combined effort with the college and a silver mining group here in the city so I guess I'm bound to find at least a regular geologist.


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