[Jewelry making - Article 00843] - Re: [Orchid] FTC guidelines

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    So if you really are a purist and if you carry this far enough...
    you'd better mine some iron - by hand. Forge a pick, shovel and
    hammer heads, make the handles for them, and then hand dig your
    precious metal ore. 

    From there, build a hot WOOD fire and melt it, refine it, dig your
    alloy metal(s), refine it/them, alloy the metals together for your
    purpose, form your ingot, use your hand forged hammer to pound it to
    shape... Do you see where this can go? 

    And of course you are gonna HAND make your sawblades, sawframe,
    files, pliers, dividers, burnishers, gravers, drawplates, drill bits,
    abrasives, polishing compounds, etc., etc. Right? And ya gotta do ALL
    of this YOURSELF, right? Otherwise you can't really claim that your
    work is truly handmade! 

    Show me one person ANYWHERE who doesn't use some kind of tool that
    was manufactured with the aid of a machine to produce a commercially
    viable product? (Other than maybe a gold nugget with a hand bored
    hole in it:) I'm guessing you could bore the hole with a twig and
    some sand as an abrasive... 

Brian Marshall
Stockton Jewelry Arts School
jewelryartschool.com
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