It’s about time now that I let you into our company to have a look around. So, when you come in and immediately turn to the left twice and once to the right, you’ll find yourself standing in the middle of the workshop and practically right in front of Ruth. Ruth Gladen is our goldsmith. Now you might be thinking – what is a goldsmith doing in a company that makes stainless steel jewelry?
It’s true that many of the skills that Ruth learnt to become a goldsmith, for example, soldering and forging – are not exactly the kind of work we carry out at TeNo. That’s because stainless steel demands a different production method to that of classical gold and silver jewelry. In our workshops, nothing is cast or soldered, instead it’s all turned and milled from the solid material.
Having said this, we still need goldsmiths. Because we’re working with gold, too. There are quite a few of our pieces that are made of yellow or pink gold. It’s typical of TeNo to combine and match stainless steel with other high-quality materials.
Moreover, to neaten up the edges of stainless steel you need to have a lot of dexterity and very skillful fingers. As a qualified goldsmith Ruth demonstrates both of these, not only in this photo, where she’s actually working on YuKoN Elements, but day in and day out without fail.
Tell Ruth “Hi” from a VERY old friend from my days in good old Germany…greetings from sunny Florida!
My Dear Ginger,
i am very surprised to hear from you. Look how small the world is :-)
I am here at TeNo for almost one year and I like it very much.
Hope you´re doing okey. Plannned to visit germany ? Big hugs for Christa.
Ruth
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