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    My take on “Documentation”

    January 26, 2023 - By Gerald Livings

    The following is what I feel best describes the phrase "well documented". "well documented" means a record in written, photographic, or other forms that is supported thoroughly with sufficient relevant documentation to enable understanding of the facts and the reasons for those determinations. This documentation should include all source data, clearly detailed methodologies, calculations, results, and all criteria be explained plainly.

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    Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources

    January 22, 2023 - By Gerald Livings

    Well. It finally happened as everything comes full circle. I was doing some random searches about lace tags and found a blog that was showing ^the correct way to make them^ and they referenced my 2017 paper on the subject.

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    Deconstructing a Historical Ring

    January 22, 2023 - By Gerald Livings

    I have been seeing this ring image being shared around on the Internet and FaceBook recently and as a professional jeweler who studies historical jewelry manufacturing processes this item raises some red flags for me.

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    DACUM Competency Profile for goldsmiths

    January 19, 2023 - By Gerald Livings

    It is my hope that this competency profile can be used by administrators in trade schools, 4-year colleges & universities, Postsecondary vocational schools, technical colleges and high school trade classes. I will be using this as a basis for my teaching and the book I hope to write very soon helping others learn the basics of goldsmithing.

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    Education and teaching is a discipline of its own

    January 19, 2023 - By Gerald Livings

    Just because you are a master of your craft does not mean you can teach it. So tell me that teaching can be "one on one, a mentorship, providing a workshop for a particular skill, etc...". Yeah. Sure. But you still have not addressed the fact that most people do not know how to pass on knowledge in a teaching situation!

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    How do you start?

    January 19, 2023 - By Gerald Livings

    If you are reading this, I hope you came to my blog because you have decided that having a career in the jewelry trade might be fun and interesting.I have no idea what you think you will find here. I also am not sure what you need to hear so all I can do is try to connect with written words and try to point you in a good direction using my own experiences as a model. So we quickly circle back to the original question. “How do I start?“ I should begin with how I started as a jeweler.As…

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