[Jewelry making - Article 00043] - Re: [Orchid] Detecting quality

[Jim Reitze]

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    For as many widely ranging opinions as I have seen on this subject,
    my own included, it doesn't seem like we are worried about convincing
    each other of what is handcrafted, handmade, or not.  Like everything
    else, there are degrees, and the point, at least to me, ought to be
    the 'sole authorship' concept.  I make an original.  I send it to a
    caster who uses his industrial knowhow to mold and reproduce my idea
    according to my instructions.  I then receive these reproductions and
    do any required assembly, modification on finishing work.  Therefore,
    these are my products.  Simple?  Not when government agencies get
    into it, it seems.  When you go to a deli, and they offer you a
    sandwich on 'homemade' bread, are they lying?  Are they within the
    letter of the law?  Misrepresentation?  If they made the bread
    there, or it was made by a local bakery, it probably wasn't really
    made in anyone's home, unless it is a home base small scale business.
     But, we all seem to get the point that this isn't a run of the mill
    sandwich on bread made in a large scale commercial bakery, mostly by
    machines.  Is this a fair parallel? Jim


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