Hello my friends. Posting for my first time in months. Anyhow, over the summer I had a bunch of mother of pearl sitting around, and my girlfriend's birthdya was coming up, and she has an affinity for mother of pearl. So I made her a necklace pendant in the shape of a heart with her initials inside. It came out REALLY NICE. Near perfect. In fact, she's wearing it at this moment (I'm in the school library and she's sitting across te room). Anyhow, even after we had a very bad break-up, she still wears cause it's so awesome...
But the rammifications of making this were huge. Right after I finished making the pendant, I developed a severe sickness. I had a 104-107 degree fever, vomiting, cold sweats, involuntary and uncontrollable shaking, and very difficult breathing. This lasted for a week, but the difficult breathing and a cough lasted for about a month afterwards. Anyhow, since then I've vowed never to touch mother of pearl ever again, and gone through a few girlfriends.
But right now I'm dating this amazing girl, truly amazing. And I wanna do something really nice for her for christmas. And making her a pendant is the best I can think of. She plays guitar in a big local band, and loves guitars, and loves the color white, and etc. so I think she would like this gift very much. So I'm going to risk making another pendant. But this time, I'm not going to do it in a room with no windows, the doors closed, the fan on, and no mouh protection. As I think that is where I went wrong.
So anyhow, what safety precautions should I take, exactly when dremeling/sawing/sanding MOP?
Thanks,
John