[Jewelry making - Article 00109] - Re: [Orchid] Speed vs. Quality

[John Donivan]

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    I'm gratified to read the quality replies to this thread. I would go
    so far as to say that there is no such question, "Speed vs. quality?"
    A person can craft a masterpiece in months or years even - maybe they
    are zippy and can do the work in weeks. Another person can toss off
    cheap jewelry in minutes, and make a good living at it, but one is
    speed and one is quality. They are unrelated to each other, really.
    What it boils down to mostly is time-and-motion studies. If you have
    a diamond necklace with 50 stones, and links, and some design
    element, then it's simple arithmetic. There are 50 settings to be
    made  AT  1 hour per. There are 60 links to be made at 3/4 hour per
    (links, not jump rings), and there are 50 design elements to be made
    at 1/2 hour per. That works out to about a month's work, not counting
    setting and finishing. Now, with production methods and the speed that
    comes with skillful craftsmanship, that could likely be cut in half.
    The point, though, is that there is no getting around the fact that
    there are 1000 tasks to be attended to - bend wire, solder wire,
    attach bead - what have you. One can buy 50 settings, solder jump
    rings on them, and string it up in a couple of days, but it will be
    tinker-toys, not a work of art. 


 
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