Energy Dampening vs Borg

[Teaos]

Meh that com badge would have been platted gold not solid, and platting anything in gold isnt very expensive, hell I could plate half the furniture in my house with gold and not have it cost more than a couple of hundred dollars.

[Mikey]

Rather uncomfortable, though.

And I said "relative valuelessness" - meaning that gold may be valuable for its conductive properties, malleableness, and relative scarcity; but not nearly so much as the latinum itself.

[kostmayer]

Meh that com badge would have been platted gold not solid, and platting anything in gold isnt very expensive, hell I could plate half the furniture in my house with gold and not have it cost more than a couple of hundred dollars.

Is that due to how thin you can make it?

[Bryan Moore]

Meh that com badge would have been platted gold not solid, and platting anything in gold isnt very expensive, hell I could plate half the furniture in my house with gold and not have it cost more than a couple of hundred dollars.

Is that due to how thin you can make it?

Exactly. You can stretch it out to astronomically thin proportions, if done right. It becomes easily ripped, of course, but the limits are staggering. Though "a couple hundred dollars" is a bit of an underestimate with the price of gold, I'd say.

[Mark]

How does one become a jeweller, anyway???

[Mikey]

Learn how to do it, then get hired or open a business.

[Mark]

Is there a class with a certification, or like, find a jeweller and apprentice yourself?

[Teaos]

How does one become a jeweller, anyway???

Depends what you wanna do.

If you inculde gem cutters and setters as a Jeweller they have an apprenticeship but some places do offer classes in it. The thing with a degree in gem setting (or any field in jewellery) is that it is pretty mush valueless since there is no global jewellers organisation to over see them thus making them useless unless someone chooses to accept it.

To become a standard jeweller you pretty much have to do an apprenticeship or a class through a respected institute and then get a job with a firm to establish yourself.

I went with option C however. I couldnt find an appreticeship and couldnt be bothered waiting for one to open up. So I just taught myself how to do it through a few short classes and a lot of trial and error. Learning my way is pretty hard but you tend to get really good really fast as you have to learn everything by yourself. You knowledge is far more broad as a trained jeweller gets told to do something and then just does it. They have no understanding of the process involved. Learning my way you learn the propertise of the metal you use and how far you can push them.

[Sionnach Glic]

I would have thought you wouldn't be able to get anywhere if you were a self-thought jewler. Interesting.

[Mikey]

As Teaos said, there's no international oversight authority. The closest thing are organizations which certify gemstones to have the properties (cut, color, clarity, carat-weight) with which they are advertised.

PS Teaos - is it true that colored non-opaque stones should always have an open-backed setting?

[Mark]

How much in materials did teaching yourself cost you?

[Teaos]

I would have thought you wouldn't be able to get anywhere if you were a self-thought jewler. Interesting.

Depends on what you wanna do really.

PS Teaos - is it true that colored non-opaque stones should always have an open-backed setting?

Not at all, sometimes there are setting that will work better but there is no rule about that sort of thing. Its what ever works for the stone your working with and what you want to achive.

How much in materials did teaching yourself cost you?

A lot. Technically I'm still learning. There is still stuff I cant do, or do well anyway. The good thing is that is you screw up you just melt it down and reuse the metal, you cant lose silver, you just lose time.

[Sionnach Glic]

So do you work with jewels and stuff, or just metals?

[Teaos]

Metals mostly but I can work with gems.

[Mark]

That's cool. Seriously. I wish I could learn a skill like that.