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Buying Jewelry
When buying expensive gold and silver ready-made articles, it's best to find an honest, reliable, reasonable, fixed-price shop and buy from them. Though you'll pay average prices, at least you won't get cheated. For custom work, ferret out a 'kampung' artisan whose workshop are just a dirt floor, crude wood benches, and a tree trunk with a metal spike for an anvil. If he has a ring mandrel, all the better. At virtually any workshop/salesroom combo, you'll be able to observe a silver-working demonstration. Ask your hotel proprietor or other unbiased Balinese who does good work and request to see samples of the work. The price depends on the weight, the design, the stone, or all three. Another approach is to buy unmade silver or gold elsewhere in Asia (at cheaper prices) and trade it for jewelry, or give the jeweler coins with high silver content in exchange for hand-done, made-to-order rings, brooches, necklaces. You can bring rare stones for setting-you have your own choice of some very striking backgrounds. |
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