I am convinced that jewelry objects posess the ability to
spontaneously levitate. I wish I had a dollar for every time
that I have dropped something, couldn’t find it , swept the area,
and a few minutes latter the missing piece appears right where i
just looked and swept. One of the first places I look now when I
drop something is on the bottom of my bench pin, I know that soon
I will find a jumpring or small stone clinging to the bottom of
my benchpin or the bottom of my chair waiting until after I
sweep, to mysticly reappear.
I recently dropped a small CZ from ny bench. Near my work area
my wife keeps a large box of empty pop cans for returning. When
the stone fell I heard a series of tinny pings and new I was in
trouble! I knew the stone was in the box or inside one of many
cans. I looked in each of the fifty or so cans and the syruppy
mess therein and finally found it in a can.
How could the hurled stone have found a half square inch
opening? I feel that visiting aliens use a guided radar system
to direct fallen stones to inconspicuous and unlikely places so
that they may recover them later for the trip home!
since you asked… I believe it’s the little people;
I agree. They live here, too. In my case, they are all too real
and live in the attic. Out in the out-back woods where we are,
the little wood rats enter the house when-ever and where-ever
possible. Last November, I heard various odd and loud rumblings
and clunking noises coming from the attic. I was sick in bed
and couldn’t get up the energy for a few days to find out what
the ruckus was all about. What I found both frustrated and
amused me… the rats had chewed into my Chritmas ornament
boxes and helped themselves to almost anything shiny. Ornaments
were strewn all across the corners of the attic, stashed in
boots, buried in the insulation, and who knows where else. The
wierdest thing that they did was to take some 6 inch long
aluminum twisted hanging ornaments- about 10 of them- and stuck
them inbetween the weave of a rectangular basket. Then, they
“hung” my littlest ornaments from these makeshift branches.
Pretty eerie! They also chewed into and drank the water from
all of my snow globes after rolling them across 12 inch rafters!
Explains all the clunks. Makes me wonder if theres a working
jewele-rat somewhere between my walls as well. My only fear is
that they will celebrate Christmas this year in my studio!!
This is not a phenomenon known only to jewelers! I’m a dental
tech, and once about 10 years ago I was making 4 gold inlays in a
row. While polishing, one flipped out of my hand and no matter
how much the 5 of us looked we could not find it. I had to
remake that inlay. Four years later during our move to new
quarters, we were dismanteling the benches, I found it! It had
flipped foreward and had landed on a braceing strut of the
bench in front of me and to my right. It landed up under the
bench having had to carrom in s fashion that would have done
justice to the Micheal Jordan/Larry Byrd Pepsi commercials of
several years ago!
I have found lost inlays, onlays, and crowns(and stones) in so
many strange places that I’m convinced that there are tiny evil
Heintzelmenscher(elves) of ant like strength with a supremely
evil sence of humor that gravitate to the very places that they
are least wanted!
Regards,
Skip
Skip Meister
NRA Endowment and
Instructor
@Skip_Meister
07/30/9711:38:24
Jim, I’ve been meaning to respond to your posts for a while now.
I live in San Diego now, but I lived in Detroit all my life until
about 2 years ago. You mentioned Woodward Ave. and I’m assuming
you may have worked in the Metropolitan Building? ( even though
it’s a little off Woodward). I worked in the Metropolitan
Building between 1971 and '73 at Reich Jewelry. Also a while ago
you mentioned a great jeweler named Lane. Do you mean Lane
Truby? I knew Lane when I worked in the Metropolitan and a few
years ago I was taking a post grad jewelry class at Wayne State
(Phillip Fike) and Lane was also a student. He didn’t need to be
a student, he was taking the class for stimulation and to have
the opportunity to do his own work. I agree, he is excellent! By
the way, do you know if they ever tore down the Metropolitan
Building? I heard it was radioactive and they didn,t know what
to do with it. If they ever did the rubble should be sifted for
diamonds and then refined for gold! Back on the subject of black
holes, that building is full of them. ( By the way, for forum
members who don’t know, the building was a large building full
of wholesale jewelers and related trades.) On top of that the
flores had so much gold ground into them that they glistened.
Nice to see another fellow metro Detroiter (I know you live in
Windsor or therabouts) on the Forum.
Hi Patricia, They took the golden floors of Metropolitan Bldg.
and sold them for about $10000.00 a suite to a salvage co. who I
heard still made about three times the amount after refining.
The whole building was gutted and then refinished inside for an
insurance co. The only thing the black holes are swallowing is
the premium payments and maybe a few pens. Jim alpine@hay.net
Jim, I've been meaning to respond to your posts for a while
now. I live in San Diego now, but I lived in Detroit all my
life until about 2 years ago. You mentioned Woodward Ave. and
I'm assuming you may have worked in the Metropolitan
Building? ( even though it's a little off Woodward). I worked
in the Metropolitan.
Hi Patricia, What’s your last name? I take it’s not “Your Name.”
Or what you were going by in 72. I was over to the Metropolitan
Bldg. for lunch in the sandwich shop most everyday or going over
to Michigan Jewellers supply. In I think about 77 the Met. was
bought by an Insurance Co. and all the Jewellers were turned out
on there ear. Before they totally gutted the whole building and
rebuilt the insides. They sold the floors in each Suite for
$10000.00 and still made three time that amount back after
refining I heard. Some of the Jewellers like Cavena who made
the school ring came over to the David Whitney Bldg. where I
worked for Sam Giacchina. Most went out the new Jewellers
building out in Southfield called the Advance Bldg. (40 unit
Bldg.) AKA the den of the forty thieves. Because of there habit
of sticking a guy out in the halls to miss direct customers into
there establiment. And its sister Bldg. The Greenfield Plaza
with the same reputation. Sammies Co. shared space with Motif on
the 17th. floor for a year. Then we move down to the seventh
where the ring went out the window. Then down to the 2nd the
last year I was there before escaping to Canada. I live a one
hundred miles north of Windsor in the village of Zurich by the
way. >From 78 to 90 I worked in Canada. In 90 I went back for
bright lights and big diamonds to set in the Detroit Area. This
is were I met with Lane Truby in 94 to find out our careers had
paralleled sort of. While I had been working for Sammy who
mostly did work for Meyers Treasure Chest. Lane had been the
youngest Forman ever in there repair shop. He had gone to Waine
and in 95 got his BFA after 25 years of having a good time with
Phil. Fike. He had been working for Jewels R. Shubot Fine
Jewellery for long time when he had a heart attack just before
Christmas of 91. To which when Jewel’s came to visit Lane at
the hospital he said “how could you do this to me now Lane”?
*%^#nice guy. While he was with us he got a quad. bypass after
which he was feeling so feisty he restarted his own shop again to
produce Platinum Jewellery and covers for books with his daughter
to the publisher. Things here Detroit are still as wacky and
wild as when you were here. Jim alpine@hay.net
PS: Sorry about putting this long message on orchid but I couldn’t get
through to your e-mail address.
Hi Patricia, They took the golden floors of Metropolitan Bldg.
and sold them for about $10000.00 a suite to a salvage co. who I
heard still made about three times the amount after refining.
The whole building was gutted and then refinished inside for an
insurance co. The only thing the black holes are swallowing is
the premium payments and maybe a few pens. Jim alpine@hay.net
Don’t you think the black holes may have passed through the
refiner’s?? They’ve probably been redistributed all over the
world by now. 8^)