Henry Jordan is a professional bench jeweler. A bench jeweler is someone who works directly with the jewelry - fixing it, buffing it, and shining it up - as opposed to someone who simply sells jewelry. Or, as Henry put it... "If they’re a bench jeweler they have dirty fingers, and if they’re a jewelry salesperson, they have clean fingers." Well as you can imagine, Henry Jordan fits into the "dirty fingers" category.

Henry has been working with jewelry for over twenty years, doing everything from custom design to stone setting, as well as some unusual requests. He’s even hand made some of his own jewelry. He says also that he’s done some work for none other than Mr. Saturday Night Fever, John Travolta. He also operates a "while you watch" kind of shop. Any of his customers are welcome to sit in and watch him work on their jewelry.

As you know, jewelry is about more than money. It represents so many other things, and usually has so much sentimental value tied to it, that just the thought of watching the guy who’s doing the work will cut down on some of the stress that goes with taking our precious jewels to someone you don’t really know.

And Henry has gone a step beyond that as well. He’s now set up the XCam2 so that he can show his work over the web. So now anyone can go to his website, and see him working. So if you simply can’t stay to watch once you’ve dropped off your wedding ring to be re-sized (because your wife is such a fabulous cook), you can log on to Henry’s web site and watch him do the work while you’re at work, or at home, or out of the state.

As Henry puts it, "Customers love to see the work performed on their diamonds. It feels good to them, seeing that no diamonds were switched, a good job was done, I get paid and they go home happy. Everybody Wins."

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