[Jewelry making - Article 00034] - Re: [Orchid] CNC Wax Masters

[Kenneth Ferrell]

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    I want to thank every one for their input on the wax finish
    question, Jeffery my Mastercam isn't a pirated piece I bought it at a
    School surplus auction I have the box, two manuals and could register
    it I believe. Not that I ever register software any way, and the
    jewlecad is their evaluation copy, We won't discuss the other
    programs <Argh Matey> I've been considering Cad/Cam for several
    years, and this fiasco with this vendor is probably going to get me
    off my hind side and step into the fire, Last year I experimented
    with Rhino's demo and that does seem to have a pretty steep learning
    curve. I spoke with the wax vendor and he said that well the models
    were just for silver  so ... Well I guess if he were the one that had
    to do the casting, and clean up and the waxes were for Platinum or
    Karat Gold he could do a better job. Unfortunately I'm the slob that
    gets the honor of trying to explain to my client why the job is going
    slowly and that well yeah they are a bit thinner than I'd like to
    have them too. and so on and so on. I guess I'm a bit anal when it
    comes to sending the best I can to my clients and when I have to
    scrap a very high percentage of my waxes due to someone else's
    uncaring quality then it's time for a change. The waxes in question
    were done on a 3D wax mill to me it seems like an OK machine for the
    money, but I think I'm going to set up a Taig either that or the Max
    cnc 10 open loop, I wish I could afford the Max 10 closed loop but
    I'll still have to grab some tooling and LOT'S of wax blocks to
    practice with, I'm going to have to start producing waxes in about
    two weeks that will pass my criteria and my client's, unfortunately I
    think I'm harder to please than most stone age casters. Fortunately
    for me there is a pretty friendly teacher at a vocational school near
    by, He's willing to help me with the CAD end. I'm very grateful for
    the help and advice from every one that responded to my question, I
    was really starting to wonder if I was being unreasonable. Or being
    had, I guess that question got answered big time. 

Thanks
Kenneth Ferrell


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