[Jewelry making - Article 00754] - [Orchid] Commercial waxes... Oh !

[Daniel Grandi]

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    Commercially available waxes 

    I would like to mention that many of the " commercial waxes" that
    you might buy from  a " wax House" more than likely was not created
    by them...  and they don't know who owns the copyright.... Why do I
    say this?  welll...  When I was doing sales for a supply company in
    the 1980's , I frequented many  manufacturers in NY... they used to
    buy waxes from 3 or 4 "wax Houses" to get new designs into their
    lines ... in many cases , while I was visiting their  shops, the
    manufacturer would send them 10 or 20 waxes  in exchange for the
    waxes they received... the waxes they received were not theirs to
    give away... they actually belonged to some of their customers.... I
    saw this with my own eyes. 

    At another point in time ... a few weeks later, I got called by a
    few companies that wanted to buy injection wax and mold rubber...
    When I went to visit them, I found that the 2 companies I went to
    see were the companies that were exchanging waxes with jewelry
    production companies . They would then cast the  waxes , make molds
    on them... then, sell the subsequent waxes for $1 or so per piece in
    their catalogs to people who thought they were buying waxes that
    were in the public domain... Which was not the case. However, they
    were never caught and are still in business today doing the same
    thing. 

    That is not to say that there might exist a company that only makes
    their own models and then sells the waxes publicly... I just never
    heard of one that does. It just does not make any sense.... Would you
    spend $500 on a model + a mold to sell a few waxes for a dollar or 2
    ??? probably not !!! 

This , In my opinion is a very bad practice.
Daniel Grandi
Racecar Jewelry Co. Inc.

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