CAVEAT LECTOR!
If you're reading this page, you've arrived at a PROTOTYPE 
of the official Searchers of Anaheim Gem and Mineral Club website.  
The Searchers of Anaheim  disclaims any legal responsibility or indemnity
for the accuracy of the information contained herein, but hopes you 
become a member anyway!  Visitors here agree, by their loading of this 
prototype website into their browser, to release the Searcher's Gem
and Mineral club of Anaheim, any of its assigns, members, employees
Board of Directors , or representatives, from  any liability whatsoever 
regarding information stated herein.

  This website is currently for the exclusive use of 
members of the Searchers only...but will eventually become public.

 
                                                               Photo by Will Shaw
 Clare Gagnon, right, demonstrating a tricky solder technique
 in his Saturday silver-smithing class...

Saturdays from 3-7 PM you'll find Clare teaching basic silver 
fabrication techniques...including piercing, soldering, and finishing.  
Make a bezel and a ring shank for that perfect opal cab you've 
finished in the Searcher's Thurs and Saturday gem workshop!  
Clare also teaches what tools and supplies you'll need for basic 
silver jewelry making, and where to shop for great deals!  But the 
real education is rubbing elbows with some great and experienced
club members, who will share their secrets and tips with newcomers,
 who soon become friends!

(3Learn more about membership by clicking the "MEMBERSHIP"
link in the frame on the left...)

  Silver-smithing is just one of our many club activities--learn to 
carve and shape gemstones, join a field trip to collect agate, 
crystals, and mineral specimens in California, or just enjoy a lecture
(such as "How to Cast Lost-wax Stones in Place") at our monthly meeting. 
 
Trade tips and stones at one of our silent auctions, and meet new friends
at the famous Searcher potluck dinners!  There's something for 
rockhounds of all ages at the Searchers of Anaheim!

                                                                    Photo by Will Shaw
Veteran Searcher Cathy O'Campo starts a 14k gold-filled ring
Cathy has been a Searcher since she was 11, and writes the 
"Rockin' Kids" column for the Searcher's newsletter.

(3Learn more about membership by clicking the "MEMBERSHIP"
link in the frame on the left...)

                                                             Photo by Will Shaw
Ben Byland sets up the 18" slab saw for cutting some nice golden
sheen obsidian! Ben is a veteran Searcher, and always willing to help
 a new rockhound!

Lookit all dem Rockhounds!

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