[pjd7]

I did my jewellery trade in Australia (hence the correct spelling for me). We used to keep all our emery paper, old polishing wheels etc and send them off ever few years to be burnt & refined.

When the building we were in got renovated some enterprising guys in another workshop ripped up their floor boards and their neighbouring empty suites and got all the precious metals out of the gaps between the floorboards.

The building was 11 stories and was predominantly filled with small jewellery workshops with 2-5 people per business. And a lot of adjacent businesses (trade supplies, stone merchants etc).

[loudmax]

Wandering off topic here, but fans of Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior) may remember Emil Minty as The Feral Kid. He only had a few other roles as a child actor, then went on to become a professional jeweler. According to one podcast, he was already fashioning necklaces out of the tabs from discarded cans on set. In the end, a far healthier career choice than many other child actors of the same era.

[doctor_eval]

Curious where that was? My partner was a jeweller in the Nicholas Building in Melbs.

[candeira]

A friend of mine had an art studio at the Nicholas Building, and I got to speak with a jeweller who told me that he still did a lot of bespoke work in wedding rings, especially for tradies who would otherwise wear down store-bought rings because they were solid gold and therefore softer. I don't remember the details, but he specialised in harder alloys that are nevertheless mostly gold, and therefore "good as gold" for a wedding ring.

Would that be your partner?

[pjd7]

250 Pitt St Sydney around 2002-2003.

[ironmagma]

But do you pronounce it “jew-el-ry” or “jull-uh-ry”?

[dorkwood]

In Australia, it's neither. It's jool-ry.

[janderson215]

Probably jew-el-ery