Hello all!
I came back from the Clasp conference so inspired by the people I met
and the conversations that I had. I am planning on driving around the
country this winter to establish store accounts, explore gem mines,
caves, hot springs and…research industrial processes that have
application to the jewelry industry and meet with/interview jewelers
in their studios, working with video and writing. I am pitching the
concept to magazines and trade groups. I realized that there is alot
of new technology out there that I have no clue about since I was
trained very traditionally 20 years ago so I am going to self educate
by seeing the processes in action as I don’t understand as well by
just reading about them. I have talked to alot of people since and
there seems to be a market for the edited at the end of
my journey as a video or presentation at some trade conferences. I am
talking processes like the powder enameling of the big trucks at the
Peterbilt factory, waterjet cutting in the aerospace industry, powder
metal depositing at the San Di National Labs…
if anyone has ideas of places for me to go or people for me to
interview please email me.
Beth McElhiney
www.bethmcelhiney.com