Hello all,
My name is Shannon Prade G.G.,
I am an employee of "Diamond Boutique" Located in Del Mar California 92014, which is in North San Diego County.
I am a Graduate Gemologist from the Gemological Institute of America(G.I.A) in Carlsbad California, and the Appraisal specialist for the store.
I have been fascinated with engraving since childhood, (Dads old shotgun & Custom knife collection) growing up in TX there are a lot of shotguns .
We have a lot of clients particularly in this area who request intricate and elaborate engraving on all types of pieces mostly jewelry, but quite a few knives as well.
I would love to put my feelers out there to the engravers in this area who would like to be on our call list, so that when we get clients who are looking for this type of skill set to be used on their pieces we have a source to use.
I have been hovering around this forum and engravingforum.com for some time but never felt I had a real reason to post anything as I myself do not engrave, although I am chomping at the bit to learn this as well as gem faceting all in due time and I will pick it up eventually, with three kids under five and the current work load I have zero time to pick these up but i plan to start slow now that I actually have a new house with a garage and a work space of my own.:banana: Heck who knows, if anyone ever needs gemological advice your welcome to pick my brain or if you need an appraisal for a piece I can do that too.
well I will end the introduction here for now and I look forward to meeting up with any locals involved in the engraving trade who might be looking to take on projects as they come in, I have nothing on the block for right now FYI, but it would be nice to have a few ppl to reach out to when that time comes and they do present themselves frequently.
Thank you all and keep up the amazing work. There has been so much fantastic works of art Posted which I drool over, and it's nothing short of inspirational.
I do wish to have my fathers Rolex Submariner engraved soon, if anyone wants to reach out to me about that I'm open, but that's a personal request.
S.P.
My name is Shannon Prade G.G.,
I am an employee of "Diamond Boutique" Located in Del Mar California 92014, which is in North San Diego County.
I am a Graduate Gemologist from the Gemological Institute of America(G.I.A) in Carlsbad California, and the Appraisal specialist for the store.
I have been fascinated with engraving since childhood, (Dads old shotgun & Custom knife collection) growing up in TX there are a lot of shotguns .
We have a lot of clients particularly in this area who request intricate and elaborate engraving on all types of pieces mostly jewelry, but quite a few knives as well.
I would love to put my feelers out there to the engravers in this area who would like to be on our call list, so that when we get clients who are looking for this type of skill set to be used on their pieces we have a source to use.
I have been hovering around this forum and engravingforum.com for some time but never felt I had a real reason to post anything as I myself do not engrave, although I am chomping at the bit to learn this as well as gem faceting all in due time and I will pick it up eventually, with three kids under five and the current work load I have zero time to pick these up but i plan to start slow now that I actually have a new house with a garage and a work space of my own.:banana: Heck who knows, if anyone ever needs gemological advice your welcome to pick my brain or if you need an appraisal for a piece I can do that too.
well I will end the introduction here for now and I look forward to meeting up with any locals involved in the engraving trade who might be looking to take on projects as they come in, I have nothing on the block for right now FYI, but it would be nice to have a few ppl to reach out to when that time comes and they do present themselves frequently.
Thank you all and keep up the amazing work. There has been so much fantastic works of art Posted which I drool over, and it's nothing short of inspirational.
I do wish to have my fathers Rolex Submariner engraved soon, if anyone wants to reach out to me about that I'm open, but that's a personal request.
S.P.