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Sealed Jewel
Tell me the story behind your pet’s name?

My three cats were given their names because of how they came to become a part of my family. Magic mysteriously escaped from a SEALED, but ventilated box on the trip to my house. I found her under the front passenger seat of my car, the box, in my living room, was still taped shut. Diamond was adopted from a shelter, but the red tape it took to get her made her adoption as difficult as if she were a precious jewel I couldn’t touch. Gypsy was a palm-sized vagabond hiding under my porch from the terrors of hungry raccoons and crazed neighborhood kids. Weighing less than a pound, she looked like she’d survived the ravages of war. It took two weeks of quiet effort and hand-held food for me to win her trust.

What are the stories behind your pets’ names?

My mom named my first dog Whimper, because when we first got her if she wasn’t with me she would give puppy yaps or whimper all the time. Then she named my 2 cats at the time Tac and Toe. Toe lived for almost 18.5 years and was the coolest cat! I sure miss him sometimes. Now I have Sunny, some kids I was a nanny for named her. Sky because she is the color of grey sky and Terry short for terrorist, because she was a terror when I first got her. Originally her name was Midnight because that is when I found her on a cold rainy night. My friend came over and named her after she watched the way she attacked the other cats and the dogs too! lol

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Creating Jewellery With Cad

Copyright (c) 2010 Jonah Myers

The advances in software and the ease of use each of the differing types of CAD packages allow for, now provide a revolutionary roll within the traditional bench jewellers creation of one off pieces.

With CAD software, a jeweller can now see exactly what their designs will look like before they even put saw to metal. This advantage also acts as a great selling point with your customers. Showing the buyer exactly what they are paying for is a powerful tool that can help to seal the deal.

Complex designs are sketched up using commands that may seem very alien for the beginner but are soon mastered with daily practice. I regard it like learning a new trade from scratch except the advantage is to the current bench jeweller that knows what parameters are needed to hold a stone in correctly. How much metal it takes to keep a stone safe is not something you learn over night so the advantage like I said goes to those that have worked in the trade.

Although the software does not come cheap even in comparison to an office suite from Microsoft or adobe’s photoshop, the amount of time and money You Can save by migrating to CAD in the long run is phenomenal. For instance, if you have to make a brand new custom made head for a particular stone, there is generally a lot of waste after filing and sawing but if you use the CAD with CAM (computer aided manufacturing) all you have to do is saw off the spru and clean up the cast when it is returned from the casting company. Within the software is the ability to calculate the weight of what the design would turn out like in whatever metal is required giving the added ability to price the piece almost exactly.

Another advantage is taking your work bench anywhere. Your laptop is the new workbench for the digital jeweller and working at home is something to get used to. However, staring at a screen might not seem to be the ideal job to some and can even be seen as cheating to other jewellers that prefer to use the traditional methods the whole time. Personally, I believe that progress can be made using new tools and the use of CAD by jewellers is simply a new tool in the toolbox.

If a sharper blade was found, there would be no complaints or a longer lasting file due to new nano technology, that too would be welcomed. Then what may I ask is wrong with speeding up a process normally done by hand by using newer and smarter technology?

My final word is this, small Jewellers that want to compete with larger jewellers can now level the playing field by using this system. You Don‘t need to stock thousands of Euro worth of precious inventory, it can all be stored and created virtually on a computer, ready to show on screen to any potential customer looking for something unique and different.

About the Author

Jonah Myers helps to develop web sites and build information content for various web site owners. He market researches and complies the information together to but on a site. His latest client hosts
http://www.cadforjewels.com
which markets to the CAD for jewellery industry and runs a blog at
http://www.cadforjewels.blogspot.com
which can keep people updated with new developments within that business.