{"id":1521,"date":"2010-10-22T06:20:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T06:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soigne.ca\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2010-10-22T06:20:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T06:20:49","slug":"soigne-welcomes-paul-tanner-new-metalsmith-guest-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soigne.ca\/blog\/2010\/10\/22\/soigne-welcomes-paul-tanner-new-metalsmith-guest-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Soigne welcomes Paul Tanner, metalsmith guest teacher."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soigne is please to welcome <strong>Paul Tanner<\/strong>. Paul started his  jewellery career through the co-op education program at his high school  in Victoria, BC. Working at a number of shops, he did a variety of jobs  including casting, repairs and fabricating silver jewellery and  silverware.<\/p>\n<p>After high-school graduation, Paul continued on the path to becoming a  jeweller by working for several companies in the Victoria area and  learning a range of skills. He worked at company called Porter Bolton,  where he learned mass-production casting by making the brass badges for  Princess Patricia\u2019 s Canadian Light Infantry, and learned repair work by  working on items for Birks. He also worked at a studio called Goldman  Jewellery, where he completed commercial repairs for 13 Peoples  Jewellers stores. Paul then moved to Shimmer Design Studio\/ Atkinson  Diamond Setters where he learned diamond setting in bead, channel, gypsy  and pav\u00e9 styles, and continued to hone his custom work and casting  skills.<\/p>\n<p>After many years of knocking on doors, Paul got an apprenticeship  with Idar Jewellers, where he completed a four-year apprenticeship in  three years and learned how to make hand-fabricated jewellery, to do  engraving and stone setting and to fine tune his casting work.<\/p>\n<p>After over five years with Idar, Paul moved to Van Isle Jewellers and  Francis Jewellers, where he continued to practice his fabricating  skills. Paul retired from commercial jewellery after 10 years in the  field, but continues to create special custom pieces for private  customers, friends and family.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soigne is please to welcome Paul Tanner. Paul started his jewellery career through the co-op education program at his high school in Victoria, BC. Working at a number of shops, he did a variety of jobs including casting, repairs and fabricating silver jewellery and silverware. After high-school graduation, Paul continued on the path to becoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[83,111,81,84,184],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-teachers","tag-goldsmith","tag-jewellery","tag-jewelry-vancouver","tag-metalsmith-classes","tag-metalsmithing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soigne.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soigne.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soigne.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soigne.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soigne.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/soigne.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528,"href":"https:\/\/soigne.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soigne.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soigne.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soigne.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}