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Seeing on the counter a beautiful piece of jewelry, few people think that it was made in a small filthy closet one person whose profession is considered to be difficult and hazardous to health. This profession - jeweler.

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1. Dylan Dzhumagalieva rises early. Before work is necessary to withdraw daughter in kindergarten. Ada - five years. While mom will be at work, it will be in kindergarten



2. Dylan jeweler works all year and a half. Being a jeweler girl was not going to and initially worked as a pharmacist. However, after her divorce from her husband wanted to change something in their lives. Helped parents who keep a small jeweler's shop



3. In a small workshop Dylan spends all day. Today we need to polish gold rings.

 - In general, people always want the same thing. Although sometimes there are interesting orders. For example, once we ordered a gold badge with a picture of an oil rig



4. The stones and metals jewelers buying population. People bring themselves to sell broken or unwanted jewelry, and usually sell for cheap. Now is the best gold - Italian 750, 583 used to be the Soviet sample, but it is now no longer available, it can only be bought with it. It was replaced by gold 585, which is inferior to the Italian. Turkish gold is considered to be of very poor quality and it is better not to buy



5. Throughout the walls lies a dark dusty sediment. This dust is a result of polishing gold. Dylan calls it "Dust 585". This "gold dust" is very harmful to health, because you have to breathe it all day long. Moreover, it is practically not satisfied with this content from the clothes. This sediment accumulated in the three months



6. Profession jeweler fraught with other dangers. In the process of constantly have to deal with sulfuric acid and boric acid, and their vapors affect the health



7. Dylan often makes jewelery to order. The man is immediately possible to determine exactly what he needs. If the jewelry comes with a stone, it certainly clarifies what sign of the zodiac at the customer



8. Work dirty. Purity in this profession is virtually impossible to maintain



9. On average, jewelery worth 6,500 tenge per gram (about 44 dollars). The price consists of the amount spent plus the metal work of a goldsmith. It is a misconception that jewelers - rich people. Usually they are people of moderate means. Dylan does not work absolutely terrible, as near her work is always a patrol car at an additional cost, and the room is a good reference system protection



10. To illustrate the mechanism of production of jewelry, Dylan decides to do a little souvenir for Voxpopuli



11. First you need to define some of the metal will be decoration. It was decided that for the site souvenir will be made of silver



12 - Working with silver very nice. Firstly, it is quite soft and flexible material, and secondly silver has good antibacterial properties

What byserebro acquired the desired shape, it is necessary to melt. Silver melts at a temperature of 1200 degrees Celsius



13. Then, the silver in molten form to pour into the mold. In this case it will be the plate. Working day comes to an end. Dylan decides to continue the work at home



14. - It happens often when you need to complete the work at home. For example, now I have two unfinished projects. This dagger is necessary to restore. In tsarist Russia officers were awarded such daggers. I brought him a man who dagger inherited from his grandfather. Old thing difficult to restore because it is exclusive and made it to the other technologies. By the way, restoration - is perhaps the most profitable in the profession jeweler



15. - But this coin brought me to the restoration of a collector. This coin is the era of Nicholas II. Its value on the black market is about 20 thousand dollars. Rare coin



16. - At home I always have the right tools. The first thing to do - to cut out unnecessary elements jigsaw



17. - We get the general shape. However, that's not all. All edges should be done exactly. Getting grinding



18. Polishing helps remove scratches and stains



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20. To souvenir looked interesting, Dylan decides to make him the frame. Daughter Ada decides to help her mother



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22. And here is the final result. Now you can relax and

 - To be serious, I think that the jeweler - a dying profession in Aktobe. People are not willing to pay for manual work ...



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