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Now the Blueprint working drawings are rendered into a finely detailed wax
Once the idea has been defined and approved, the
job well thought out, the next step would be to carve the custom wax.
I ask the stores to approve most waxes, hopefully to have their customers
come in to see the design rendered in a more understandable way than just
a sketch. I can do wax approvales via the web too, I generally take numerous
different views of a custom wax and make a collage, which are pictured
in the Current Work page. ...but the
key here is to make all the changes in the wax, not later in the metal,
for the best quality product possible... Changes later mean that you didn't
get the job right in a previous step, and for professional results you
need to ace out each step in order... Common sense and logical steps designed
for your satisfaction.
When you think about how small those store envelopes are, and how
few comments and ideas their 4 x 5 inch area can hold, one wonders if
indeed if benchworkers "should take that G.I.A. Mindreading Course" after
all... :) Keeping promises is a full time job, and has been for over twenty
three years, quality work and restoration is always in great demand...
Now you can reach me directly and save too :) Fine special order does
not come from dis-interested sales-staff people, when the shop actually
gets the order to build make sure that the plans are defined, and that
you are having built what you want... Wax approval is fairly critical
here, to have a very happy customer it's important to see what they are
seeing, and for them to understand both the process and the planned result.
I think our web wax approvals is one of the more creative uses of the
internet, our customers deserve the very best we can provide...
Waxes are billed separately for the time to render... For the first
ten years Associates was in business we did wax carving without billing
this step, since most retail stores were very professional at that time
most didn't commission custom waxes unless they were fairly certian of
an earnest customer... ...that changed.... Now waxes for the trade go
in the $100-$300 range generally for high tech special order wax carving
like you see here in this pierce fillagree ring shown. Killer detail and
definition are defaults here, so if the wax you just saw to approve locally
looks like "navel lint" or a "road kill" then smile and run like hell.
When you think about how small those store envelopes are, and how
few comments and ideas their 4 x 5 inch area can hold, one wonders if
indeed if benchworkers "should take that G.I.A. Mindreading Course" after
all... :) Keeping promises is a full time job, and has been for over twenty
three years, quality work and restoration is always in great demand...
Now you can reach me directly and save too :) Fine special order does
not come from dis-interested sales-staff people, when the shop actually
gets the order to build make sure that the plans are defined, and that
you are having built what you want... Wax approval is fairly critical
here, to have a very happy customer it's important to see what they are
seeing, and for them to understand both the process and the planned result.
I think our web wax approvals is one of the more creative uses of the
internet, our customers deserve the very best we can provide...
Waxes are billed separately for the time to render... For the first
ten years Associates was in business we did wax carving without billing
this step, since most retail stores were very professional at that time
most didn't commission custom waxes unless they were fairly certian of
an earnest customer... ...that changed.... Now waxes for the trade go
in the $100-$300 range generally for high tech special order wax carving
like you see here in this pierce fillagree ring shown. Killer detail and
definition are defaults here, so if the wax you just saw to approve locally
looks like "navel lint" or a "road kill" then smile and run like hell.
A store might well shave fifty cents on a size
job safely using an inexperienced benchworker, but when they try to shave
custom or special order it's you who will pay, so demand professional
work, do wax approvals and "forget what the clerk is saying" and "look
carefully" at the detail and quality of work... Words mean nothing,
it's quality which matters" When your tired or creative promises,
crappy service and marginal special order call (800) 256-3794 and talk
to a master jeweler and diamond setter who wrote the Oregon State Bureau
of Labor's standards for manufacturing jewelers and professional diamond
setters. Don't get me wrong here, I like clerks and fancy showrooms, I
just don't like the 300% profits they charge. So, now you know, and what
are you going to do about it??? 
Stores commissioning wax renderings if a customer even mentioned "they'd once seen something they liked", and expected multiple waxes carved 'till they figured out what they had in mind... "Very Expensive in Labor".... ....very stupid as well... Now we make sure they've thought out what they've asked for... Look folks "Time is Money" so if "you" define the project we can simply bid the job and successfully build it to you specifications, if you do not define the job before you promise it will be done on time you're not doing your job, and you're either going to run design fees or break a promise... Are you really in that big a hurry to get it wrong??? I'm not... :)
Stores commissioning wax renderings if a customer even mentioned "they'd once seen something they liked", and expected multiple waxes carved 'till they figured out what they had in mind... "Very Expensive in Labor".... ....very stupid as well... Now we make sure they've thought out what they've asked for... Look folks "Time is Money" so if "you" define the project we can simply bid the job and successfully build it to you specifications, if you do not define the job before you promise it will be done on time you're not doing your job, and you're either going to run design fees or break a promise... Are you really in that big a hurry to get it wrong??? I'm not... :)
Rendering a detail wax, We take you working drawings and begin the wax rendering stages of the manufacturing process. This is where the depth of the stone, length of a row of diamonds and structure of the item must be well thought out, or the customer ends up with something ugly, weak, or both... Most designs are a compromise between style and structural security, so it's important to engineer designs to live in the real world, your world.
Carefully and skillfully rendering fine waxes separates the professionals from the "wanna-be's and clerks". Straight is straight, quality is visible & excuses just don't matter in the real world of fine jewelry manufacturing... It's the products which matter. When all the talk is done, and you turn out your lights, you've either done fine work or you haven't... I like to say at "Quality is in every envelope, at every work station & is everyone's primary job".... That didn't change when I started Tradeshop Incorporated to serve the public directly.
