Hello, I don't normally "do" forums, but I've been snooping around here looking for inspiration, so I thought it only good manners to introduce myself.
I started cutting opal about three years ago and it's developed into a bit of an obsession. Initially I was paying a couple of local jewellers to mount my stones, then one day I was watching as a stone was set and I thought I'd have a bash myself. Since then I've been spending as much time making jewellery as I have cutting opal. I've had, and continue to have, the odd disaster, but I'm getting better. I search online for pictures of jewellery, then try to figure how each piece was made before having a go myself. Most of my tools came, second hand, from ebay. My torches are a cook's blowlamp and a £2.50 butane pencil torch from ebay, so many of my projects are challenging, especially those involving multiple pieces of light gauge wire!
I'll go back to my snooping now.
Bill
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