[Jewelry making - Article 00179] - Re: [Orchid] FTC guidelines

[frank goss]

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    Bill and I had this discussion on the phone last night and although I
    do not agree with wax not being hand made (we have agreed to disagree
    about this) I have to support him on the rest of his rant. It is past
    time for those of us who have spent decades of our lives developing
    our skills and craftsmanship to allow our work to be thrown in with
    work that has been mass produced and machine manufactured. I
    personally carve a lot of wax and cast with a centrifucal casting
    machine. I melt with a torch and release my casting machine by hand.
    Nothing is automatic and the only machine involved is the force of a
    wound spring in the casting machine. I also fabricate and forge as
    well as pressure form. All of my systems are controlled by hand the
    experience of my years at the bench. I will go to the mat with any
    and all that my work is had made. My hands control all the tools
    regardless of the power source. I and I alone control the cutting
    edge, the hammer blow, and the heat source. If this is not hand made
    I do not know what is. I resent and take exception to any automatic
    machining such as CAM work being labeled hand made. Design on a
    computer all you want but if you don't manufacture with the power
    tool in your hand or the cutting tool controlled by your hand you are
    not making it by hand a machine is doing it for you. My rant.. and
    Bill I still say my cast pieces are hand made. 

Frank Goss
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