Headache

Apr 17, 2014

What I particularly like is to take the lead. Scraping cast iron, that’s a must, but that’s not why I do this job. No, I like to find solutions, to fight with the metal, to adjust it and tame it in fact. I don’t want to create, I want to make and therefore ask myself questions. I just want to be a good jeweller.

S., 4 years of school and in the workshop for one and a half years.

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