Has your flex shaft ever seemed to run too hot? Or has it started making a weird grinding noise? Wait a minute, when was even the last time that you paused to do any maintenance on it? Most flex shaft motors are made to run for years and years with minimal intervention, but they do need a little TLC.
Read MoreI was bad at being a jewelry designer...in the beginning.
Very, very bad. I had cobbled together a line of jewelry from some half-formed ideas in my head, took some photos in a small photo tent with my point-and-shoot digital camera, released them in an Etsy shop, and dusted off my hands like I had accomplished something. This isn’t to diminish what I did at the time. At the time it was huge. Crazy, in fact. Looking back now though, I made some amazing errors. Ones I didn’t even know I was making. Everyone makes mistakes in their first few years of business, and ideally, we can all learn from those mistakes. I want to share mine with you, so that maybe you can learn what not to do.
Michelle came back to wax carving after a hiatus from jewelry-making. She had a specific idea in mind for what she wanted to make, so we set up a private lesson for her to achieve her design. We laughed, we chatted, and she finished this impressive square statement ring in wax. Michelle has made jewelry before, and it was so fun to talk about tools, tricks and tips for getting the best results for her special project
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