[Jewelry making - Article 00789] - Re: [Orchid] Milling your own or buying stock

[John Donivan]

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>     When you combine an artisan who can keep 24kt and alloys to blend
>     as needed, tools to make most of what is needed with a sense of
>     time and value that lets them outsource with a refiner/supplier you
>     get the artist who makes money and great jewelry. 

    I started this, I'm afraid. All I said was that one needs to
    understand the rolling mill when looking for work in the business
    (that's all). That was blown up into that it's a way to roll out 22
    gauge silver sheet by the yard to save a buck (nobody's THAT stupid),
    and I gather that there are some who think I wouldn't buy sheet if I
    needed sheet or some such - I was born at night, but I wasn't born
    last night... No, all it is, and all I said it is, ever, is a
    fundamental tool in the shop, most especially the gold shop. It is
    used 90% of the time by most people I know to either make custom
    sized pieces of stock or to customize existing stock to suit the task
    at hand. It just seems so simple.... For myself, and I'm pretty
    typical, I do special order work mostly. Every job is different, and
    it's simply ridiculous to think that I can stock every bit and piece
    of stock I'm going to need for any given job in 14kt white and
    yellow, 18kt and platinum and do it economically. I alloy my own
    18kt not because I'm cheap but because it's the alloy I want. Nobody
    ever said, "Don't buy mill products" - those words never came out of
    my mouth. But if you walk into Van Cleef's workshop and tell them you
    can't use the mill, they'll laugh at you.

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