Tucson Electric Park Learning Center – Feb. 7th

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This article was originally posted on Userblogs on 2/11/2008.

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Updated on November 20, 2023

OK - so I am a day off!!!

Well today's the big day — well it was supposed to be the big day! I was going to learn to facet a gem in 30 minutes…but Johnny Tew got sick so we showed a series of Gem videos.

Let me go just a little off topic to talk about these videos…Hans Durstling, (the Father of the Learning Center) worked with the Canadian Discovery Channel to produce a series of videos that follow a specific type of from mine to market. Represented are Columbian Emerald, Brazilian Topaz, Sri Lankan Sapphire, Baltic Amber, Australian Opal and one on Synthetics. They are all really well done and will hopefully be available in US soon.

If you are in the area and have always wanted to learn a little about lapidary stop in and get some one on one with Diamond Pacific's Genie and the Wizard trim saw. We have done demos with Rose Quartz and a woman came in with Dichroic Glass (she wanted to learn to take the scratches out) and Hans has been cutting a large amount of Ethiopian Real Estate…he is the new authority when it comes to cutting Ethiopian Opal!!!!

The 1:30pm presentation was Nora Nelson - Intro To Beading. She worked with 8-10 ladies on crimping - very nicely done and really helpful lady.

The 3:30pm presentation, Gerry Lewy - Diamond Setting Using Gravers was a popular seminar. He talked about grinding and polishing gravers and the same ways in which he has adapted his gravers for diamond setting - you can find out more about Gerry and his DVDs & gravers at http://www.gemz.com/

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