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	<title>Reinvention: A Journey From Engineer to Jeweler</title>
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	<description>An offshored software engineer's efforts to change vocations...</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Inlayers&#8217; Lathe Retrofit Kit For Sears Craftsman 22106 Wood Lathe is Finished&#8230; Batteries Not Included (But The Cat Is Extra!)</title>
		<link>http://aule.ganoksin.com/blogs/2010/03/08/inlayers-lathe-retrofit-kit-for-sears-craftsman-22106-wood-lathe-is-finished-batteries-not-included-but-the-cat-is-extra/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aulë</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I know&#8230; it has been a while.
My only real excuse for not posting sooner is my obsession with getting my jeweler&#8217;s lathe retrofit finished.
You&#8217;ll also notice that I took down the initial pages of my planning and execution of this retrofit.  This is because once I assembled my parts together, I realized that even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interlude:  Learning How To Be Perfectly Boring With An Endmill!</title>
		<link>http://aule.ganoksin.com/blogs/2010/02/07/interlude-learning-how-to-be-perfectly-boring-with-an-endmill/</link>
		<comments>http://aule.ganoksin.com/blogs/2010/02/07/interlude-learning-how-to-be-perfectly-boring-with-an-endmill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 06:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aulë</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi, all!
For the last few weeks I had been putting some effort into machining the additional parts to convert my Sears Craftsman from a wood lathe into a jewelery lathe.
I ran into a very bad snag, when I discovered that the pulleys I was going to bolt onto my end support inserts to support the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Wise Guys arrive bearing gifts - Manny, Moe, and Jack!</title>
		<link>http://aule.ganoksin.com/blogs/2010/01/14/three-wise-guys-arrive-bearing-gifts-manny-moe-and-jack/</link>
		<comments>http://aule.ganoksin.com/blogs/2010/01/14/three-wise-guys-arrive-bearing-gifts-manny-moe-and-jack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aulë</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Just before Christmas vacation my car&#8217;s alternator and battery both needed replacement, and I was unlucky enough to have them both die on me while I was still in traffic.   Fortunately, a generous bystander was more than kind enough to push me to a Walmart, who diagnosed the problem and gave me a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Years&#8217; Thoughts on Going Forward&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://aule.ganoksin.com/blogs/2009/12/15/new-years-thoughts-on-going-forward/</link>
		<comments>http://aule.ganoksin.com/blogs/2009/12/15/new-years-thoughts-on-going-forward/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aulë</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[The Road Goes Ever On...]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Folks,
It was only in August of this year that I had resolved to make a serious effort to making jewelry.  
The good news, is that the results are even now beginning to materialize:
1) I have gained a great deal of confidence in using my Taig CNC to machine diverse types of metals at diverse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Essay In Crosses III: Completing My Very First Silversmithed Jewelry (For My Wife&#8217;s Christmas).</title>
		<link>http://aule.ganoksin.com/blogs/2009/12/01/an-essay-in-crosses-iii-completing-my-very-first-silversmithed-jewelry-for-my-wifes-christmas/</link>
		<comments>http://aule.ganoksin.com/blogs/2009/12/01/an-essay-in-crosses-iii-completing-my-very-first-silversmithed-jewelry-for-my-wifes-christmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aulë</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Once the crosses were actually created and finished (see An Essay In Crosses I and II) everything else flowed easily to the conclusion.
I didn&#8217;t have much established equipment for performing precision drilling work other than the CNC milling machine, fortunately so long as you have the right attachments the CNC can do the job.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Essay In Crosses II:  Manufacturing My Very First Silversmithed Jewelry (For My Wife’s Christmas).</title>
		<link>http://aule.ganoksin.com/blogs/2009/11/29/an-essay-in-crosses-ii-manufacturing-my-very-first-silversmithed-jewelry-for-my-wife%e2%80%99s-christmas/</link>
		<comments>http://aule.ganoksin.com/blogs/2009/11/29/an-essay-in-crosses-ii-manufacturing-my-very-first-silversmithed-jewelry-for-my-wife%e2%80%99s-christmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aulë</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In my first effort to make crosses for my wife to wear at Christmas, I learned how to fuse pairs of fine silver pieces together using a pocket torch.  
But I wasn&#8217;t satisified.   Although I had only been exploring the capabilities of combining the techniques I had learned so far so that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interlude:  The RezLathe Takes On New Life As The RezPolisher!</title>
		<link>http://aule.ganoksin.com/blogs/2009/11/22/interlude-the-rezlathe-takes-on-new-life-as-the-rezpolisher/</link>
		<comments>http://aule.ganoksin.com/blogs/2009/11/22/interlude-the-rezlathe-takes-on-new-life-as-the-rezpolisher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aulë</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally found out what my Christmas present from my father was going to be:    An Inland 8 inch All-In-Wonder lapidary set!     And it was IN THE MAIL ALREADY!   Oh wow!  Oh joy!   
So naturally, I had to make room in my crafting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Essay In Crosses:  Developing My First Silversmithed Jewelry (For My Wife&#8217;s Christmas).</title>
		<link>http://aule.ganoksin.com/blogs/2009/11/13/an-essay-in-crosses-developing-my-first-silversmithed-jewelry-for-my-wifes-christmas/</link>
		<comments>http://aule.ganoksin.com/blogs/2009/11/13/an-essay-in-crosses-developing-my-first-silversmithed-jewelry-for-my-wifes-christmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aulë</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the day I resolved to attempt actual silversmithed jewelry.   I have the thin strips of fine silver I hammered out previously.  I figured the simplest thing I could do with those strips was to make crosses for presents for my wife, her cousin, and her friends.
I tried out a variety [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interlude:  A Helpful Python 3.1 Utility for Engraving using a CNC Machine</title>
		<link>http://aule.ganoksin.com/blogs/2009/11/10/interlude-a-helpful-utility-for-engraving-using-a-cnc-machine/</link>
		<comments>http://aule.ganoksin.com/blogs/2009/11/10/interlude-a-helpful-utility-for-engraving-using-a-cnc-machine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aulë</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[New! This utility is now hosted on SourceForge under GPL License!
As I am getting very close to create silver shapes for jewelry, I may want to engrave those shapes on my CNC machine with various patterns after finishing.
I use various utilities for creating the GCODE files for my engravings.   However, I find myself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Producing Silver Products From Ingot Using A Homemade Drawplate</title>
		<link>http://aule.ganoksin.com/blogs/2009/11/04/producing-silver-products-from-ingot-using-a-homemade-drawplate/</link>
		<comments>http://aule.ganoksin.com/blogs/2009/11/04/producing-silver-products-from-ingot-using-a-homemade-drawplate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aulë</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If I can&#8217;t make round wire using my homemade drawplate right now, so what?    I&#8217;m only 50 miles away from fine silver wire, and yesterday while shopping for groceries (nearest store also being the same distance!) I bought about 10 feet of 22 gauge and 4 feet each of 20 and 18 [...]]]></description>
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