[Welcome] New Members for July 12, 2008

Please welcome our newest members!

Mark T Talley
Atlanta, GA. USA

In working towards engraving firearms I wanted to try piercing a
trigger guard to emphasize a leaf pattern I’m laying out. I bought a
jeweler’s saw on eBay and wanted to know what size blades I need and
a zillion other questions came up so here I am.

Mark Roger Shields
http://www.mshields.com

I trained in hand silversmithing at Colonial Williamsburg, Va in the
1970’s, and began on my own in the '80s. Today I make a collection
of breed-specific dog pins in pewter and bronze which I wholesale to
galleries, and own, along with my portrait photographer wife Ritchie
Gregory, a small gallery of handmade silver and photography which is
situated at Sandbridge Beach, Va, the top of the Outer Banks. My dog
design work may be viewed at animalgrace.net

Rollin Garard
Prescott, Arizona. USA

I retired from the fire service in 2002 and became a CBJ at the
Texas Institute of Jewelry Technology. I am currently creating
custom order and gallery pieces out of my studio in prescott
Arizona.