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In This Edition:

    1. Linda Threadgill: Conceptualizing Ornament
    2. Collaboration With Gemstone Cutter
    3. Jewelry Photography Made Easy: Lighting
    4. Liver of Sulfur 101
    5. Myth Buster: Magnesia Blocks are Superior Soldering Surfaces
    6. Chris Smith's Amazing Adventures with Tanzanite
    7. Studio Visit: Jack and Marilyn da Silva

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1. Linda Threadgill: Conceptualizing Ornament
   By Glen R. Brown

    Threadgill's keen interest in ornament undoubtedly arises from her
    longstanding practice of etching motifs into the surfaces of her
    works, a process that she began perfecting as early as her
graduate
    student days. In 1984, after studying the manner in which printed
    circuit boards were mass-manufactured, she developed a smaller and
    more portable version of industry's spray-etching machines. Armed
    with this technology, easily applicable to a photo-resist
technique,
    she deftly created bas-relief patterns on thin metal plates that
    could be incorporated into larger and more complex works....

Complete Story:
http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/linda-threadgill.htm

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2. Collaboration With Gemstone Cutter Takes Tom Dailing to New Heights
   By Gerry Davies

    Tom Dailing works in metal and Richard Homer in stone, but
otherwise
    they are very much in sync. Dailing's jewelry designs win
    prestigious awards. So do Homer's cut gemstones. Both have a
passion
    for exploration and innovation. Both love to spend hours pondering
    their next creative direction-preferably to somewhere no one has
    been....

Complete Story:
http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/two-minds-one-design.htm

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3. Jewelry Photography Made Easy: Lighting
   By Wayne Emery

    The goal of this guide is to help you create images of your
jewelry
    that you can be proud of, whether for simple record keeping
purposes,
    for appraisal work or for advertising locally or on the Internet.
    Buried in here is a guide to a simple setup that works, and it
works
    every time. It's buried because I want you to read a little to
    uncover it; you'll be learning on the way....

Complete Story:
http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/jewelry-photography-lighting.htm

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4. Liver of Sulfur 101
   By Holly Gage

    Liver of sulfur, a stinky jewelry studio standby, can be used to
    create beautiful patinas on Silver, Silver Precious Metal Clay or
    Art Clay....

Complete Story:
http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/liver-of-sulfur-101.htm

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5. Myth Buster: Magnesia Blocks are Superior Soldering Surfaces
   By Ann Cahoon

    Myth: Magnesia blocks are superior soldering surfaces to charcoal
    blocks: A topic that seems to raise a fair amount of spirited
    discussion and strong opinions is what is the best soldering
surface:
    firebrick, charcoal, magnesia, solderite-the list goes on.
Charcoal
    is a very traditional choice, but it is seen as having limitations
in
    terms of both longevity and safety. I was curious to see if any of
    the practices out there served to really mitigate these issues,
and
    how charcoal compares to magnesia, another popular choice.....

Complete Story:
http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/magnesia-blocks-myth.htm

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6. Chris Smith's Amazing Adventures with Tanzanite

    A year ago, there wasn't much new to be said about tanzanite, the
    oven-blued zoisite found only in its namesake country of Tanzania.
    Known to be benignly heated from brown to blue since its discovery
    in the mid-1960s, tanzanite was one of the gem world's safer, most
    worry-free precious stones.

    Then, last summer, this gem suffered its first major gemological
    scandal. Dealers started seeing lots of melee and calibrated goods
    with exceptional color rarely seen in smaller sizes---as well as
    larger single stones with remarkably uniform color. Working with
    goods submitted by dealers, American Gemological Laboratories and
    AGTA's Gem Testing Center jointly discovered that some stones were
    being coated with cobalt to give them their stellar color. Once
    detected, the labs quickly devised a regimen of easy tests to
ferret
    out suspect goods....

Complete Story:
http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/tanzanite-adventures.htm

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7. Studio Visit: Jack and Marilyn da Silva
   By Jennifer Cross Gans

    Most jewelers and sculptors are quite satisfied to have one studio
of
    their own. Between them, Jack and Marilyn da Silva have four --
each
    have one for their day jobs, Jack's Metals Design Studio in El
    Sobrante, California is a third, and then there is their favorite
    place of all, affectionately known as The Shed."....

Complete Story:
http://www.ganoksin.com/borisat/nenam/da-silva.htm

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