Jeweler found the perfect setting for a career

23.02.12

If he'd been born in a different generation, Walter Childress says, he might have been a computer geek and spent his days dismantling hard drives or developing apps.

"I was always good with my hands. My mother said I took the hinges off the door when I was 3½ ."

But this natural-born tinkerer found his niche not with wi-fi or privacy settings, but with settings for precious and semi-precious stones. And he's developed useful products that have applications for jewelry wearers and repairers.

Source: Lexington Herald Leader