PGI technical web site

It gives me great pleasure to announce that the PGI technical
web site is up and running. You find us on the net at
http://www.pgi-platinum-tech.com . On this site you can browse
our Source Book III, read and download the Platinum
Manufacturing Process I-II-III-IV , as well as other popular PGI
publications. Feel free to link this site to yours and provide me
with your link, so that I can add it to the Industry Contact
section.

I wish all the readers and contributors of Orchid a happy
holiday season and a platinum 1999

PLATINUM GUILD INTERNATIONAL USA
Jurgen J. Maerz
Manager of technical Education
JA Certified Master Bench Jeweler

Hello Jurgen: I went to the site. I am very, very impressed with
the amount of it contains.

I want to tell you and your group at PGI how thankful I am for
your hard work to inform the bench jeweler. I am working on more
and more Platinum items and am even doing more custom work in
platinum.

I have a technical question for you. If a man says something in
the forest and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still
wrong? Have a very merry Christmas.

Michael Mathews Victoria,Texas USA

I’d like to echo Michael’s thanks to Jurgen.

Jurgen, you’ve been a great help to me by teaching me and
advising me in several areas of the jewelry business, and I’m
extremely grateful. Your advice to me has never been wrong. Well,
my channel setting is still, errrr…

I recently moved into a new studio where we plan to set up a
soldering area for platinum. Expect more questions!!

Merry Christmas to all, hope too see you in Tucson,

Karen Hemmerle
Boulder, CO