![]() And when he was ready to inlay the stones, he’d glue them in with a black adhesive his kid gathered from the middle of the road where the sun had warmed the asphalt paving enough so he could dig out a spoonful. Careful gentle hammering was done with a beat-up carpenter’s hammer. His anvil was just a chunk of truck axle cut and jammed into a large wooden stump of some sort. Soldering was done with a beat-up gasoline blow torch. ![]() Grinding, polishing, “lapidary” grinding, all was done on a small hand-cranked grinder, the type that used to be sold for sharpening knives. He had a small table set up and was working at it. It was decently made for what it was and the low prices being asked.īut here’s the thing: the guy’s whole workshop basically existed in those small spaces in his garage not taken up by his truck, and mostly in the dirt or gravel driveway itself. Colorful inlay patterns of turquoise, coral, black onyx (or other things pretending to be them). It was pretty typical the sort of stuff one finds even today. The guy in it was making silver and stone-inlay jewelry. I saw a number of interesting little shops where they were doing all sorts of crafts. ![]() It wasn’t then the big tourist center it is now, and we got a ride from a fellow at the air strip into the little town adjacent to the ruins, and wandered around there a bit before heading to the ruins themselves. I recall way back in the ’60s, while travelling to Cozumel with my parents, we went over to the ruins at Chichen Itza. A: A good craftsman could make the same blade with either a good anvil or a piece of junk steel. ![]()
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