[Jewelry making - Article 00324] - Re: [Orchid] A paradigm shift: print on demand objects to sell

[John Donivan]

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>     Wayne Emery, long time admirer of your work (Jim Binnion) 

    First, perhaps Jim could be persuaded to talk about what he's been
    doing lately (?) Pretty cool stuff... 

    The problem with CNC in jewelry, as Wayne pretty much said, is that
    people DO see everything as a nail. Trade magazines are full of CNC
    jewelry that all looks exactly the same, and I've only rarely seen
    designs in galleries online that are worth much of anything. It's
    not a condemnation of it, it's just that it is what it is. Some
    jewelry is made by wax carving and always has been. At least half of
    it is not, though. I had a guy wanting to CNC a design that was a
    couple of wires bent a certain way and soldered down, and he
    insisted on using the computer - his mind couldn't reach that far.
    So it took him 3x as long, and then he had no dimension to it when
    it was done - the tool doesn't make wires, it makes square-sided
    shapes with no shadow line. I want to go CNC too, for the business,
    but it's only good for what it's good for... 

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