Lapidary and Jewelry are very symbiotic in nature. It makes little sense to me to separate the two with space to accommodate them as is.
They sell together extremely well in tours as well. And fit the scope of glass, jewelry and ceramics.
IMO we need more eyes on this by those that understand the 3 committees well. I’m well versed in Lapidary Jewelry and Glass blowing and understand the issues ahead, and how best to sell us all together marketing wise.
I’ve already proposed a wet grinding double diamond wheel station that we could house for all 3 to use. Ceramics could grind glaze runs and sharp corners, and glass could grind burs on slumps or molds. Lapidary could use it to grind big shapes putting less pressure on the expensive resin wheels use.
The diamond wheels for this setup are 6” by 1.5” for a 3” face on aluminum centered wheels, so that would stop the fears of our epoxy wheels getting loaded with ppl sneaking a grind in to clean up THIER issues and ruining lapidary wheels. When someone does this it kills the whole set, as they load glass or ceramics into the resin wheel.
And all of lapidarys equipment thus far is on loan to jewelry as the custodians. To the tune of $9k right now. Someone already ignored the training only tags and ruined a set of $500 wheels grinding god knows what. I’m not comfortable wit my machine and wheels across the way out of site. I can’t speak for Nadira but I would guess she feels the same.
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Can we get these on the short list to get our RFID login Island?
The plan is to make Lapidary their own comittee so having them separate could make that transition easier when it comes? The statement made at BoD was Expansion thought it might be nice for Lapidary to be closer to the sink/water supply
As for the wheels…shame on that guy. Hopefully that area has a camera. The screenprint press has locking boxes over it. Anne already approved me to laser cut the enameling board. If you guys are fine with reimbursement I can get some extra material (probably acrylic) and make some for the Lapidary wheels as a stop gap while we wait on RFID.
Didn’t mean to derail a Hatchers post saw expansion in title.
We went with genies from the get go to not have to worry about water. One machine holds 1L or so. Standard procedure is dump the pans in buckets after use, so ppl don’t spill the flat pans. No pumps or waterlines etc needed for these. I was told Lapidary may move to plastics metal shop area on the other side tho. 
By the double door is doable on our side as is the flex in middle if need be. Or outside of JSM down the long side.
I honestly don’t see Lapidary owning it’s own equipment, or expanding for at least a year. (Outside of the saw we are buying) Given what is ahead, and what it has taken to get to where we are today.
As for the wheels I looked back best I could. Wasn’t noticed until the new set came in to split between the two, and I changed them. By the looks of it, it’s glass. Deep groove on the soft wheel, no water loaded in the pans, hence the powder residue. Then they probably thought oh look I can polish it off too, and hit every soft wheel down the line. I printed a lock box that day, thanks for the offer tho. 
RFIDs def on the radar if feasible.
I’ve said my bit. Apologies for the derail.
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Until we can get an RFID reader on them I wonder if it would be possible to build something almost like a dog crate but maybe just was too by one by twos and chicken wire guy has a pair of Hands Spa on it that has a lock well I parralox so that it can’t be opened without the key. We could then cover that with fabric so it look nice and dust and dirt out of the machines. Might be a quick and dirty and fairly cheap way to keep folks from using them until they’re properly try.
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8 that entire idea just shows that we have a lot of folks that don’t even know what the committee’s do are planning on doing. No hatchers does not belong down in the flex area.
Makes sense to me that jewelry and lapidary are next to each other and not separate.
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10 4. Just passing on the info 
