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Originally Posted by jshepherd The ‘Pearls’ coarse is a great way to get your feet wet, but do your own research, and take a lot of what the book has to say with a grain of salt when opinions are expressed.
For example; the individual who wrote the Akoya section had his work dissected and changed by GIA "donors" who felt some adjustments needed to be made. At least this is what he told me. He was really not happy with the results, either. |
I am not surprised and expected something like that. Each booklet about a specific pearl type of the course is "sponsored" by an organization (SSPC, Perles de Tahiti, etc. - except for the one about FWP). They provide pics and figures, I assume they also offer a compulsory proofreading service.
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Originally Posted by jshepherd If you read and retain the information from this Site, you will be miles ahead of anyone else in the industry. Here opinions are identified as such, and debates rage. So much information floats around both online and off that, pardon the Pauli quote, is so far from right it is not even wrong. |
I'm reading a lot in the forum, and from many other sources. Press releases, news, articles, etc. but that will never replace training with the real thing.
It reminds me of my first ornithology courses. I read so many books I could recognize in a split second a bird I'd never seen before. But when it came to recognizing a bird song when the book said
"jay, jay and tweedle-dee" or
"when I see you I will squeeze you and I'll squeeze you till you squirt", good luck!
btw the second song example is from the warbling vireo.
