A couple months ago my 18yo daughter decided she wanted to get into making silver and turquoise jewelry. She’s artistic like her mother who does custom leather tooling/crafting. We told her to go at it and let us know what tools she needed and I’d foot the bill. I already owned a bunch of tools that would help her in this line of work. Her and her mother ran down around OKC to a ladies shop/studio that does classes and they participated in a one day class each making a ring. They came home and said that it wasn’t a difficult task. At a bare bones level anyhow. They took lots of notes on tools and materials. In the last month my daughter has been full throttle out there in her studio area portion of our leather shop cranking out her own pieces of silver and turquoise jewelry. She has sold many pieces and I’m proud to watch her craftsmanship get better with each piece. She’s hit some problems and had to figure out how to overcome them or fix a mistake which is a great experience. This is my eldest daughter and I’m tickled to have atleast one of the three seem to find a skill that can put food on the table. Here’s some of her work below. I’m no gemologist but I do know they buy these stones from Western states and while I don’t see the money difference some stones cost much more than others. Lol