[Jewelry making - Article 00280] - Re: [Orchid] Mass produced elsewhere!

[Gerald]

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    HI Ken S. When I was reading your posting, it actually made me a bit
    ill to read what is going on within "our" trade, on both sides of the
    CAN-AM border too! This kind of news is really unsettling to us, the
    craftspeople who have worked many hours overtime just to make
    "ends-meet"...and see that their own labours and pricing have been
    subjected to the off-shore companies doing their own work......02
    cents a setting? 

    Ken and all, it took me only 9 years to learn this wonderful and
    rewarding career, it is rather disgusting to see it wasted away by
    some 3rd world country, no names here are ever mentioned. I would
    gladly walk away from this trade. but now I am on a journey of
    helping and teaching others using both media's; verbal and the print.
    I am showing them how to appreciate quality to see certain settings
    can be done at their own bench's. 

    These students will definitely be the winners...let some other
    off-shore individual do what they want and live on the .02.... but
    'we' must keep our head held high and just do our own thing!...my own
    .02 cents of talking, not setting!..:>)..Gerry! 


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