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Post by Cher on Oct 30, 2004 20:42:44 GMT -5
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Post by sandsman1 on Oct 30, 2004 20:57:19 GMT -5
hey doc lookin good man looks like you got alotta room i like it---your gonna have a nice setup there good luck with it ---what ya gonna name it ---how about ---------------------DOC'S ROCKS-- hahahaha what ever you name it im sure your gonna do good
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Post by docone31 on Oct 30, 2004 21:08:20 GMT -5
Cher, you did great. Yep, that is my shop. I am with my wife she is smiling in the photo. She yelled at me later. I wake up and say I am sorry! first thing, then Good morning. I have to say I am sorry sooner or later, might as well get it out of the way.
The name of our shop is Seventh Chapter Jewelery. That is a long story, but all my designs are Seventh Chapter Jewelery Designs. I am the person who created the earcuff. I have the copywrite on it. I make our toe rings myself. In the photos, where I am making the emerald talk is my repair station. Behind me is where I am going to cast, steam clean, and have our ultrasonic/Ionic cleaner. Where my wife is, she does custom restringing, pearl knotting, wire wrapping, earring making.
Our first day in business on the slowest part of the year, Halloween is the worst weekend, we made the black. Today we cleaned the clock. It is just that easy. It took me a few years, and a few wives to get here, but here we are.
Where we are is one of the finest places in Floriduh I have been. Very few mean southerners, very few arrogant out of staters. People seem happy here, they are like the old south I remember. Folks were friendly then. House prices have gone through the roof. We were lucky getting this one.
The weather is not too hot, it does not get too cold, and best of all, people like jewelery. I have been drawing a crowd cutting the emerald. People love to watch.
The fleamarket is at RT. 19 Port Richey Floriduh. Just north of Tampa.
I hope I see some of us some day there. I would love to show someone what I have learned. Of course that would take ten minutes and there are some great beaches within an hour.
C'mon down. The water is great.
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Post by krazydiamond on Oct 30, 2004 21:13:02 GMT -5
great set up........! now i want a flat lap...  you guys look a lot happy Doc, no uglies there, KD |
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Post by BearCreekLapidary on Oct 30, 2004 21:31:44 GMT -5
Hey Doc,
You have a nice place ... I wish you all the luck and rich money spending people you can handle ;D
Enjoy,
John
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Post by Cher on Oct 30, 2004 21:34:35 GMT -5
I can't imagine what it would be like to have a place that big where you can really be doing what you love to do while your working. Thats really great and I'm happy for you and Jenne. Maybe someday I'll learn enough to have something worthwhile in your shop. I got some wire, but I'm kind of afraid to start. Still need some copper wire to play with.
You go Doc and Jenne, best of luck to you!!
Cher
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Post by rockyraccoon on Oct 30, 2004 21:46:52 GMT -5
doc those are great pics. very, very much luck to y'all though i think you don't really need luck as you've got the talent on your side ;D just need the right customers.
kim
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Post by docone31 on Nov 1, 2004 17:38:26 GMT -5
One of the things I really appreciate about the people on this forum, for years I have done a lot of talking and did not have the photo capability to prove what I was talking about.
Nobody called me the fool.
I have been challenged all my life. I got my ba., and I was challenged. I got my Ms., Ma. I got challenged. I got my phd., and I got challenged. The biggest quote was I did not look like I had a phd. What does a DR., look like?
Here, I have found friends and I finally had some photos, not to prove what I was saying, but to show my blood sweat, and tears and what the journey produced.
Thanks guys, all of you, for being there and letting me show what dedication can produce when you keep at it.
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Post by Cher on Nov 1, 2004 19:06:40 GMT -5
Well, I guess this Dr. looks like YOU! So what you a DR. of? ... if you don't mind me asking. I don't know too many Dr's and none that didn't always make me feel like they were talking down to me. Guess you may be a DR. but your not a ... a ... ummm well, you know. ;D
Cher
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Post by connrock on Nov 1, 2004 20:25:45 GMT -5
Great set up doc,,,and it looks like you both enjoy it and that's all that counts!! Tom |
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Post by cookie3rocks on Nov 1, 2004 20:42:33 GMT -5
Doc, does your hand have a green glow in the last pic because of the reflection (refraction?) of the emerald you are working on?
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Post by docone31 on Nov 1, 2004 21:20:09 GMT -5
I am a Dr. of Divinity. Columbia. I did seminary at Yale with economic studies at Brown. I am ordained Evangelical Free, shades of Chuck Swindoll, John Grey. I work with Alcoholics and Addicts. I am self supporting. The church does not provide any assistance either emotional, financial, or even in prayer other than I give up my calling.
I instead started my business.
The green glow is from the light bulb on my right. As I facet the emerald, the first facet cuts make the stone look like tumbled glass. I will not be able to see the true stone untill I am at 600. If it is wet, the stone literally glows. Dry, it is frosted and does not really look like an emerald at all. When customers come to the shop, I just let it sit on the faceter. No one thinks it is anything except a curio.
When I am soldering or doing repairs. I have a benchmate right in front of me at the faceter, I just leave the tumbler grinding away while I repair chain, re set stones, etc.
The key with my faceter, once I get the first of the facets for the index set. The other six cut to the first one's level. After the first on each facet run, the rest are no brainers. When I facet, I cut by sound. The primary index rest comes down and touches the table, and the sound of the cutting disc tells me when it is done.
The water drip makes the dopped stone either pull down to the lap, or it hydroplanes. I also adjust the drip by the sound of cutting.
Once a person has done a few stones, it comes second nature.
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Post by krazydiamond on Nov 1, 2004 21:28:46 GMT -5
so with all this Doctor of Divine, how did you find Time,
to play with Rock Bands, syncopated with all the pain and talent? no challenge here, just a mere, question?
KD (and her faint attempt at Rap)
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Post by docone31 on Nov 1, 2004 21:43:06 GMT -5
Ok, here it comes. I managed exotic dancers to supplement my seminary, as well as being married and working a full time job. I did conceal a double life to the priests to be, and I considered some aspects of what I did to pay for college might be questioned. I had been playing rock and roll since I was 14, and I leapfrogged both college and sets and recordings. I did graduate Suma cum Laude. I can take tests real well, especially multiple guess. I count patterns.
At Brown, I took trimester courses. I took three masters from Brown. The company I worked for paid me to go to school, I was in the military in the reserve and they picked up a lot. Sometimes I had one class a trimester, sometimes I had six. I had accumulated enough credits that transfered to my Phd so I only had to go 18 mo. and do a thesis.
I started college in 1970, and got my Phd in 1991. I also acquired three ex-wives in that period, and two more before I met Jenne.
It has truly been the strangest life I have ever lived.
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Post by krazydiamond on Nov 1, 2004 21:53:50 GMT -5
that you remember.........
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Post by cookie3rocks on Nov 1, 2004 22:02:31 GMT -5
That's strange to hear. I do well on multiple answer tests because I see a pattern. I took an IQ test for fun and, even after 3 glasses of wine, scored 120, a little above average. I bite at math and assumed I'd done poorly on that part of the test, but actually did well. The answers were explained to me, but the way they derived the answers and the way I decifered it were compeltely different, I saw a pattern and followed that.
Why divinity, Doc? Any paticular reason?
cookie
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Post by docone31 on Nov 1, 2004 22:27:13 GMT -5
My parents were Bostonians. I grew up guilty for the fall of Adam and Eve, the crucifixation of Christ, the Spanish Inquisition, the Holocaust, and every negative event in contemporary history. On top of that, at my baptism, the priest broke my nose on the altar showing me how to pray. I was invited to join Mensa while in the ninth grade, and upon graduation I was voted most likely too....
At 14, I was a full blown alcoholic. I would black out, graduate from some challenging and bizarre school, or job, or whatever and pop into this life and wonder who I was.
I attended seminary as I thought I would get into so much trouble I had better be on the right side of the cloth. Soon it was a ball that started rolling and I just kept up with it. My marriages were a disaster so my thesis was Marriage Divorce and Remarriage in Scripture, How Man Limits God. It was published, and my first ex got the royalties, along with all my music and everything else.
She and her wife live in the house I had built by hand. I married again, and she left for a religious cult.
My anger and frustration I took out in trying to disprove religion, faith, and all the spiritual aspects of an higher power.
Today, I am reconciled to living in balance and trying to be an husband for my wife. I never wanted to be this or that. I just wanted to be an husband and a good father. My son hasn't spoken to me in 15yrs. He blames me for his mother. At 30, he is so blinded by resentment he lives his life to not be me. The more he tries, the more, it seems, he becomes like me.
My people skills have long become twisted and distorted I am unfit for conventional life. The shop, and what I do is perfect for me. I can be self supporting, reach out to others, and be an husband.
Today is the day!
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Post by krazydiamond on Nov 1, 2004 22:27:16 GMT -5
(he wanted to see God without ruining his record player by spinning it backwards?)
ouch, i couldn't help it, N. Cookie.....
KD
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Post by deepsouth on Nov 2, 2004 0:03:22 GMT -5
Hey Doc ....Dr Doc... how come you haven't written any books yet , you are such great writer. I am always glued to the screen when reading what you have written. Very interesting observations in all the lives you have or have not lived. I wish only the very best for you and your present day wife in your excellent looking shop.  Jack |
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Post by docone31 on Nov 2, 2004 0:15:33 GMT -5
Jack, my thesis became a book, and then plaguerized. My exwife gets my royalties. We do stuff like that in this country. I wrote it, she left, she got it.
I really like reading your posts. I have tried to picture what it would be like in NZ., but I know so little about it. The pictures you have sent, and others I have seen show so much beauty, and diversity. I am a little concerned about how the toilets there flush the other way. I might get used to it, or forget about it completely looking out the window.
I have found, when people think of travelling, they bring home with them and try to balance what they see with what they they are used to. They then make where they are like where they were even though they left it.
I would love to just be in those woods you showed and the beach with the stones, and just hear the earth with no attempt to make it like it is where I was last.
Even things like the grasses. On the east coast here, they have a different fiber than the west/left coast. Knowing that I think about things like the grasses there, the humidity either humid, or dry.
I like hearing from you, Jack. We got used to our toilets going to the left. I imagine you are used to your toilet flushing to the right.
Way cool.
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