[Jewelry making - Article 00472] - Re: [Orchid] Article: Minimal Metalsmithing

[Steve Holden]

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    I don't think it was the critique of the material that provoked the
    ire of the magazine, it was the inclusion at the end of the posting
    of Nanz's Art Jewelery credentials and affiliation, which would
    obviously imply to a reader that her personal opinion was shared by
    the magazine. As someone else has pointed out, the magazine does
    carry a lot of advertising for clay supplies and suppliers, so their
    reaction has to be understandable by anyone who actually believes
    that it's a good idea NOT to offend your customers. A summary sacking
    for this does, however, seem to be an over-reaction when a simple
    public apology and clarification of the personal-opinion nature of 
the
    posting would normally suffice. 

    As for the great clay debate, those who are so against it might
    reflect that here in Spain in the mid 1980's to early 1990s there
    was a great debate over whether using vacuum casting and mechanical
    centrifugal casting was really silversmithing, or just playing with
    wax and then using a machine to produce jewelry.....those against it
    said that it was obviously inferior to fabricated product, and that
    you could always tell the difference, and they'd never seen a cast
    piece that could compare with the elegance and economy of metal use
    of a fabricated piece...those who were for it would cite various
    pieces they'd seen and invite the traditionalists to comment on
    them...sounds familiarii 

    Of course, now the whole notion is a dead issue...and mechanical
    casting is accepted as a valid technique that can produce great work
    or lousy work....and the whole debate in retrospect was so much hot
    air. 

    Finally James, you are an acknowledged genius in my eyes as a
    metalworker, but until someone builds a house shape in particle board
    then fires it at high temperatures until it becomes a usable wooden
    house, albeit with 6 or 7 % shrinkage in the process, then I'm not
    going to be a fan of your analogy. 

    I use clay sometimes, I fabricate sometimes...I have earned a good
    living over the last 30 years selling the stuff I make, and I don't
    much care what other jewellers think of my stuff, they're not my
    target clientele. I work to live... I don't live to work
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