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	<title>Reinvention: A Journey From Engineer to Jeweler</title>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve been very sick&#8230; but I&#8217;m better now.</title>
		<link>http://ganoksin.com/blog/aule/2012/01/11/ive-been-very-sick-but-im-a-little-better-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Folks, &#160; It&#8217;s been a long while since I last posted.   Shortly after my previous post I simply started to slowly fall apart.   Eventually I had to see a psychiatrist and try different medications. &#160; Most ironically I am now taking the same medication as my father is for bipolar depression, even though I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happiness Is A Forced Water Drip Feed! (Or, Extending Your Trim Saw&#8217;s And Wood Lathe&#8217;s Capabilities With A Salvaged Water Pump).</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 05:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello again, everyone! I had just about finished getting organized with my shed after having moved more than 1000 miles from Arizona into the Idaho Panhandle, and established a daily routine that allows me about 12 hours per week of activity with respect to jewelry making which I could count on. Yavanna is also happy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Converting a wood desk for jewelers&#8217; use (an alternative to Frankendesk for Dremel users!).</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 05:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And now for something completely different!  I had read several articles on modifying a wood desk into something a little more usable for jewelry making.    Here is my take on it: I decided to make my modifications in two passes.  Because I don&#8217;t have experience with conventional jewelers&#8217; tools, my tool of choice for basic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jewelers&#8217; Taig CNC Milling Machine Brain Transplant (aka Board Swap) in 32 easy steps&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 08:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings from The Blessed Realm, little bits of which are seen in every place people drive by (or luckier people live in) and label God&#8217;s Country! Today we&#8217;re going to go into rather exhausting detail regarding an infrequently done but sometimes very necessary chore if CAD/CAM is a part of your jewelry or crafting repetoire. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reality Don&#8217;t Give A Shed about Silversmithing Workshops&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ganoksin.com/blog/aule/2010/09/23/reality-dont-give-a-shed-about-silversmithing-workshops/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 06:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two months have passed&#8230; 1) We painted our house! 2) We moved in our appliances! 3) The 10X16 double-decker shed got built! 4) We remodeled our house! 5) We moved all our craft from private storage! It is item number 5) that required major modifications to my floor plan. Some goals simply were not practical: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Floor Plan to use 10X16 Storage Shed as Silversmithing Studio.</title>
		<link>http://ganoksin.com/blog/aule/2010/07/28/floor-plan-to-use-10x16-storage-shed-as-silversmithing-studio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aule</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yavanna and I have been very busy these last several weeks.   We&#8217;re almost done with all the paperwork needed to close on the house we&#8217;re taking a mortgage out on.  Little One is also getting rather excited, as she&#8217;s looking foward to painting her own room with &#8220;princess colors&#8221;! We&#8217;ve also been working out spending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sweeping Out The Amethyst Chimney.</title>
		<link>http://ganoksin.com/blog/aule/2010/07/01/sweeping-out-the-amethyst-chimney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having obtained sufficient blue chalcedony to work with for a while, I decided to move onward to my next mineral. I found a rock shop in Arizona, several months before moving to Idaho. The store was having a clearance sale on pieces of broken amethyst chimney. I could not resist obtaining for a song a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lapidary Fun In The Silver Valley (Or, Little Shop &#8211; No Horrors!).</title>
		<link>http://ganoksin.com/blog/aule/2010/06/28/lapidary-fun-in-the-silver-valley-or-little-shop-no-horrors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 06:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aule</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I managed to quickly restart crafting only 2 weeks after my family landed in The Silver Valley. My key to doing this was fairly simple: I sequestered as much as I could of the most essential parts of my crafting in only 4 main boxes: Lapidary, Silversmithing, Kiln, and Clay/Glazes. I made certain that for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Fall, A New Crafting Space!</title>
		<link>http://ganoksin.com/blog/aule/2010/06/23/this-fall-a-new-crafting-space/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aule</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wanted to share the exciting news. After about three weeks of house hunting the which I will not describe in great details, my wife and I have picked the house we want and have negotiated with the seller in a series of bids and counterbids which ended tonight on an acceptable price. She and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Train (on) Your Anvil.</title>
		<link>http://ganoksin.com/blog/aule/2010/06/21/how-to-train-on-your-anvil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I are staying at her aunt&#8217;s house while we are looking for a home. Her aunt has very generously offered to let me use her shop for my activities temporarily, so long as I cleaned it up first and sorted out about 5 years worth of debris for a yard sale. My [...]]]></description>
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