[Jewelry making - Article 00803] - Re: [Orchid] FTC guidelines

[Peter W . Rowe]

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John,

>     Nope. Handmade means only human power and human hands. It's not
>     like the "handmade" police are everywhere, but it can happen, and
>     there might be complaints. But it's quite specific - no
>     electricity, no mule power, no mill power, just human power. 

    Please provide precise documentation of this interpretation. I
    believe you are wrong here. The FTC guidelines talk about manually
    controlled methods, but not specifically eliminate tools which may
    use a motor or other power source. The determining factor seems to
    me to be manually controlled, not manually powered. I recall a JCK
    show perhaps a decade or so ago, where there were a number of
    presentaions as well as the main show, one of which happened to be an
    FTC representative, and a question was asked him about this very
    detail, ie what could or could not be called handmade or handwrought.
    In that case, the question was whether an electrically powered
    buffing motor made such a mark invalid, and his answer was that so
    long as the process was hand guided and controlled, so the operator
    had complete control over the results, that the presence of an
    electric motor didn't negate the hand made aspect. In short, it only
    provided extra power, and didn't determine the result, only the time
    needed to get there. But this was just one person, and he may have
    been mistaken, after all. Is it possible that his interpretation
    relates to "handwrought", but not "handmade"... 

    So again, I'd like to know where this precise interpretation can be
    documented. 

thanks.
Peter Rowe
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