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	<title>The Gem Doctor</title>
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	<description>Blogging from a Gem restoration and Lapidary workshop</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<link>http://thegemdr.ganoksin.com/blogs/2009/11/05/55/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent post from Kevin Kelly regarding an American law for a bloggers requirement to divulge receiving free products was the inspiration for this endorsement and blog entry.  I probably wouldn&#8217;t have made my comments to Orchid readers as this is a lapidary related product and will probably be of little interest to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gemstone repolishing</title>
		<link>http://thegemdr.ganoksin.com/blogs/2009/09/27/gemstone-repolishing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[With gems of serious value, when saving a few points is real money, the increased time involved in locating each original facet and repolishing it, is worth paying for. 
Other than that repolishing is somewhat of a misnomer because a damaged or abraded stone is invariably recut and then polished. Even if a stone has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pleonaste</title>
		<link>http://thegemdr.ganoksin.com/blogs/2009/09/19/pleonaste/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I do like writing that name almost as much as I enjoy mispronouncing it&#8230;.
It is &#8216;better&#8217; known as the iron rich Black Spinel which is currently gaining popularity being cut into tiny faceted stones as a black diamond simulant. 
It is also lesser known as a simulant for Jewellers Black Onyx. Amusing that Jewellers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faceting demonstration</title>
		<link>http://thegemdr.ganoksin.com/blogs/2009/01/31/faceting-demonstration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have no problem with having people watch or talk to me when I am cutting and have given a couple of talks to clubs and such. I have even cut in a shop window, so when a gemmologist friend asked me to give a cutting demonstration to his gemmology students, I agreed on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Twas the night before Christmas</title>
		<link>http://thegemdr.ganoksin.com/blogs/2008/12/29/twas-the-night-before-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a B.C. Nephrite jade ring that I cut from a block of &#8216;Cassia chromite&#8217; to fit the 14k white gold mount supplied by my customer.
Usually if I am called upon to work on Christmas Eve it&#8217;s because some very sad jeweller is in deep trouble from a last minute woops. The only reason [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bits and pieces</title>
		<link>http://thegemdr.ganoksin.com/blogs/2008/12/08/bits-and-pieces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Having bits left over is a quite different concern for a lapidary than it is for a motor car mechanic.
In this first case I didn&#8217;t do anything particularly clever but since I have some pictures of it I have to share. The first picture shows the checker-board cushion rectangle Amethyst that I cut to replace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not what you thought it was&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thegemdr.ganoksin.com/blogs/2008/12/08/its-not-what-you-thought-it-was/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For a repair guy this is the phrase we dread having to use with our customers. It invariably means bad news along the lines of &#8216;Great-grandpa was a cheapskate&#8217; or hopefully something more diplomatic. As rare and unlikely as it may seem it is possible to go the other way.
Here is a very shabby &#8216;Sapphire&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thankyou Hanuman</title>
		<link>http://thegemdr.ganoksin.com/blogs/2008/12/07/thankyou-hanuman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 04:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For my first post I have to express my gratitude to Hanuman for giving us all the opportunity to both show and see what&#8217;s going on in the workshops, offices and stores of fellow Orchidians.
I shall strive to be adequate.
Tony.
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