[Jewelry making - Article 00657] - Re: [Orchid] Pricing those custom waxes

[John Donivan]

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>     You'd be amazed in retail how many folks get it. A $750 wax is an 8
>     hour day doing one wax. 

    I'm sorry. This, I think is the source of my amazement. I simply
    cannot fathom what a person could be doing on a wax for 8 hours. That
    is, of course, a jewelry wax. Certainly some sculpture takes a year
    of waxwork, but a ring? I do apologize, but I sit here and I think,
    "Figurative carving?" "Ballerina?", whatever, and I just can't
    imagine it. To me it's like saying it takes an hour to tie your
    shoes. I'm serious, I just can't imagine sitting down for 8 hours 
with
    one wax, or what processes could possibly be done that would take
    that long to do. Not only that, but I look at absolutely everybody's
    websites, and I just don't see any pieces like that there, either....
    I can see a real novice or student taking that long, sure. This isn't
    a hit on anybody. But by and large the people posting on this thread
    are working jewelers, and I'm just mystified what they could be doing
    on a wax for that long. I just don't get it. 

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