[Jewelry making - Article 00714] - Re: [Orchid] Milling your own or buying stock

[bill wismar]

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    I can make most any size stock with my rolling mill as can most good
    jewelers and I enjoy it when I do. BUT, I cannot justify spending my
    time making my own stock in my daily routine. I looked at an invoice
    today and it cost about $2.50 cents a pennyweight surcharge over
    gold cost to buy stock. Then add the alloy cost and the time to roll
    the stock it just doesn't pay. Not to mention you can order exactly
    what you want when you need it. If you need 8" of 2 x 2 thats what
    you order if you are making your own you will most always be over.
    That cost money. I personally do not think many of the big jewelry
    houses make their own, just take a tour of stuller or hoover or PM or
    any of the other guys and see what they are producing everyday.
    Someone is buying it and it aint the little guy thats buying the huge
    rolls of wire that I saw being produced. I may get a lot of flack
    over this but I do not think most of us can alloy and roll stock near
    as nice as the professionals. Totally controlled environments and the
    best technology give us, the end user perfect stock almost everytime.
    That my dear friends is what I use to make fine jewelry, not
    remelted gold that I used for casting just yesterday or maybe old
    gold I bought off the street. Think about the gold inventory that you
    have to have on hand to make what you might need. Call me a lazy
    slacker if you choose but never call me late to open my fed ex box of
    straight and shiny bar stock. With that said, of course I roll down
    existing stock to smaller sizes when I need to, I don't buy
    everysize I need. 

Happy Rolling everyone
Bill Wismar
www.metalbendersgallery.com
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