[Jewelry making - Article 00405] - Re: [Orchid] Otto Frei's Economy Rolling Mill

[KARAT46]

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    The Economy Rolling mill was designed by me Kenneth Singh in 1992. 

    Since then it has been copied and reproduced by several Indian
    manufacturers. All Mills coming out of India are not bad. 

    A 20 gram 14kt piece of jewelry made by Tiffany is not necessary
    same as A 20 gram 14kt piece of jewelry made by some one who copies
    Tiffany. 

    Fact is they will sell it cheaper and make it cheaper. After 16
    years of experience we know what can go wrong and corrected that plus
    we carry a full range of our parts. 

    The difference is that they do not know the heat treating
    requirements & the drive gears that take the load cannot be cast etc.
    Just because it comes from India and looks the same does not mean it
    is same. 

    If you generalize this then all French wine or Scotch whiskey are
    same. 

    Our Trade mark is KARAT and we have many satisfied customers out
    there. Recently Jewelry Arts Magazine did an article on our Mill
    showing some of the design rollers etc. 

    The links is 
    http://www.lapidaryjournal.com/cooltools

    We cannot afford to sell these cheap. What you get at Harbor Freight
    and on Ebay Auctions are never Karat. 

    We called it economical because it was the cheapest at that time.
    But evidently now you do have cheap ones and yes they endup being
    expensive. 

Kenneth Singh
46 Jewelry Supply
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