FAVOURITE GEMSTONE: Fancy colour pink diamonds, it still amazes me every day how rare and valuable they really are. FAVOURITE METAL: 18-carat yellow gold. FAVOURITE TOOL: Asiga 3D Printer. BEST NEW TOOL DISCOVERY: Matrix Gold software. BEST PART OF THE JOB: Being able to complete the whole job from start to finish inside my workshop. I CAD the design, print the wax, set up a tree, cast the piece, clean assemble and set the gemstones and there it is! WORST PART OF THE JOB: The value (or lack thereof) placed on the work a jeweller does. BEST TIP FROM A JEWELLER: You get what you pay for. Made in Australia – it’s really worth it! BEST TIP TO A JEWELLER: Choose your customers wisely. BIGGEST HEALTH CONCERN ON THE BENCH: We never really understood in the early years the dangers associated with the chemicals we use and our environment. The difficulty in adapting modern-day health and safety measures to our profession and being able to recover the costs associated with this. LOVE JEWELLERY BECAUSE: I love seeing the new pieces I design come to life, particularly when they’ve been created from something as simple as a lump of gold. |