[Jewelry making - Article 00688] - Re: [Orchid] Quick polishing question

[Douglas Turet]

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    Hi Michael, Forgive me for being so direct... maybe it's just that
    I'm a purist. Then again, perhaps it's that I'm reading this posting
    of yours from the sensitized perspective of an innovator -- a poet,
    musician, inventor, designer and craftsman -- but I'm more than just
    a little bit offended by your request for a way to eradicate all
    evidence of someone else's signature, in hopes that you can look
    like you're the originator of their workmanship and designs. What's
    more, it's hard for me to fathom having the presence of mind to post
    a request to an industry-wide list of fellow creative artists and
    craftspeople, looking for an easy way to misrepresent work that
    could very well be theirs (or mine) as your own, all for a 20%
    profit (or any other, for that matter).  I'm not saying this just to
    pick a fight with you, but, frankly, I'm dumbfounded: I can't even
    begin to fathom a set of circumstances -- that is, one which still
    affords such affluent luxuries as a computer and internet access --
    in which a profit margin would become more valuable to me than my
    personal integrity, or a situation in which I'd not only want to rip
    someone else off, but then send a letter to every last creative soul
    in the trade, announcing that it was my intention to do so! I think
    it was Tom Peters who once commented that, before we begin climbing
    the ladder of success, it makes sense to take a look at what it is
    that that ladder's leaning on... Think about it, Michael: is the
    miniscule 20% profit margin you're hoping to make on those future
    batches of inexpensive silver jewelry really worth all of the
    long-term expense it's likely to cost you? (Honestly, you couldn't
    pay me enough to do something like that.) 

Douglas Turet


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