I really enjoyed my 2-day jewelry soldering class this weekend and am
glad I took it. My farm-style soldering
would never have worked to get any kind of artistic attractive results. I made a silver ring with a green stone, a
three layer sandwich pendant of copper-silver-copper and half-finished a silver pendant with a
large flat blue stone. The results were
stunningly attractive for something I made and sorta nice on a relative scale.
I bought a most of a starter kit of jewelry-smithing tools and supplies
after class yesterday. I bought what I
could off my shopping list at Bird Tail Beads to support a local store, then
switched comparison shopping between RioGrande.com and Amazon. By the end of the week, I will be able to
make many more shiny pieces of metal out of rocks, copper and silver.
I am grateful for what I learned in class, how much I enjoyed it and for
the “flow” (losing myself in the task at hand by being deeply engaged). It seems to be the kind of enjoyable and
satisfying hobby that I always wanted to have.
I am blessed.
PS: A shout out to for Neal
Stephenson’s Reamde. It is funny entertaining read on gaming,
computer security and international intrigue based in the NW.
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