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Restaurant inspections: April 19, 2015 Siam Cafe offers 'mild' to 'very spicy' Thai cuisine Tempo Videos Classifieds Jobs Autos Real Estate FEATURED » Obits Blogs TV Listings Movie Listings Oregon Outdoors Oregon Healthy Living Special Sections Business Services NEWS NOW Our View: Sensation and sensibility: a balancing act ... Guest Opinion: Uniting to restore our sovereignty to we, the people ... Police identify armed man killed in Salem RV standoff ... Our View: Sensation and sensibility: a balancing act ... Guest Opinion: Uniting to restore our sovereignty to we, the people ... Police identify armed man killed in Salem RV standoff ... Ashland gem shaper By BILL KETTLER MailTribune.com By BILL KETTLER Posted Oct. 9, 1997 at 2:00 AM Updated Feb 17, 2011 at 11:18 AM By BILL KETTLER Posted Oct. 9, 1997 at 2:00 AM Updated Feb 17, 2011 at 11:18 AM » Social News Arthur Lee Anderson's unusual web cut citrine won him a Germancontest -- and big prestige in the gem-cutting world. Photo courtesy of Arthur Anderson a cut above his rivals ASHLAND -- Arthur Lee Anderson figures it took five hours and 15 yearsto cut a gemstone that could change his life. Five hours to cut the stone, and 15 years to learn the techniques thatwon first prize in a German gem-cutting competition last month. The self-taught gem cutter's 21-carat citrine caught the judges' eyesduring competition in September at Idar-Oberstein, a center of the Europeangemstone trade. Anderson's unusual web cut stone, faceted tolook as though someone had cast a web inside it, won a prize of 10,000 deutschemarks (about $5,700). Just back from the awards presentations in Germany, Anderson said theprestige of winning a premiere international competition is far more valuablethan the prize money. I think it's going to be a turning point in my career, saidthe 44-year-old former painting contractor. He estimated the publicity hisaward will get in trade publications would cost more than $100,000 to buy. Anderson's achievement is extraordinary in the world's small circle ofgem cutters, said Michael Randall, a Marin County, Calif., gem dealer whoexhibits Anderson's stones. In Idar-Oberstein you're being judgedby the most skilled, knowledgeable master carvers in the world. Anderson's citrine triumphed over pieces submitted by 47 artisans fromEurope, North America and Asia. Working in a converted Ashland garage, hecut the citrine in a style he developed that creates patterns inside thestone. Normally a person's eye falls on the surface of the stone,he said. I take them inside. Traditional gem-cutting techniques create a dazzling effect by reflectinglight off many precisely cut facets. Anderson brings life to a stone bymaking cuts that use its light-reflecting properties to create three-dimensionalimages that seem to arise from within. It's almost like a hologram, he said. Randall said most ordinary faceted stones reflect so much light thatsmall mistakes disappear in the dazzle. But Anderson's cutting style requiresa level of precision that few cutters can achieve. If his angles are a half degree off, things don't match up,Randall said. His angles have to be absolutely precise. The child of a career diplomat, Anderson had a passing interest in gemstones while he was growing up in Germany, Japan and Greece. In the early1980s, while working as a house painter in Eureka, Calif., he suddenly foundhis life's calling. The first stone I cut, I had a deep realization that this is exactlywhat I should be doing. Anderson learned his art by reading old lapidary magazines. He scroungedequipment to practice faceting techniques, but worked at first in isolation. I didn't meet another gem cutter until I'd been cutting for twoyears, he said. Ten years ago, he moved to Ashland, where he slowly built a reputationfor precision cutting among the gem dealers and jewelers who began to valuehis work. He's very well known in this trade, said Randall, butwe're a very small trade. In the (gem) cutting world, everybody knows whoArthur Anderson is. Anderson developed his cutting style as he looked for new forms of expressionin the art of gem cutting. Cutting had been reduced to engineering as opposed to art,he said, noting that faceting machines have taken over some of the workformerly done by cutters. Anderson began to win major gem-cutting awards in the 1990s, and hisreputation grew among dealers and jewelers. He said the prestige attachedto his latest prize could making earning a living at his craft a littleeasier. Trying to make a living as a gem cutter is about like trying tomake a living as a basket weaver. It's like any of the arts in this country.You have to run completely on passion. It's not a practical way to makea living. 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