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Lizzasaurus In reply to Lizzasaurus [2008-05-20 11:11:49 +0000 UTC]

oh, so it's more to make money and not make fun of the cheap cheap cheap industry then?
either way, i'd buy them. and i don't even have pierced ears, ha!
thanks for the explanation!

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wilson419 In reply to Lizzasaurus [2008-05-17 19:18:37 +0000 UTC]

Every year around Christmas, my Metalsmithing and Jewelry program at UWMilwaukee holds a "cheap jewelry sale" on campus. I say cheap in the sense that there really is not anything ever priced over $100.00, not because it is of low quality but for the sake of time, cost effectiveness, and jewelry work that is an "alternative" to the mainstream, we tend to make lower priced stuff. Anywho, It becomes part of our class assignment, for what ever the class being held that semester is, to create a body of jewelry work for the sale consisting of a minimum of 10 pieces per student. For the class I was taking at the time I made these, our guidelines were to create jewelry with an emphasis on industrial processes and production, as well as the use of a manipulated repeating form/concept/technique/or material throughout the 10 piece minimum. I was really interested in learning digital applications, CNC, CAD, and rapid prototyping methods in my work, so I chose to make a 12" x 18" sheet of vector drawings and then have them output on our architecture departments laser cutter. I did this with two different sheets and many different designs all in wood, and eventually I wound up with 100's of varying pieces to work with for something like $60.00 in upfront cutting costs. After figuring out different things to do with the pieces such as coloration, combining them, the findings, etc...I packaged them and they were ready to sell. All the while we had to keep a tally running of our total costs thus far which included time, materials, and packaging so we could figure out how to price the jewelry pieces in order to make a profit. Grand total I wound up spending somewhere just shy of $100.00 and made like $170.00, so I essentially only made $70.00 profit, but all things considered this wasn't too bad. Our sale went down on a "snow day" cancellation of classes on campus, so out of the regular 30,000 students who come and go on campus daily, only a fraction of them showed up that day as you can probably imagine. Our sale total still brought in around $5000.00 which was incredible, and I wound up not even selling half of what I made, which meant everybody got my jewelry for Christmas that year, lol. I considered the whole thing a success and I hope that helps to clarify what I meant when i said "cheap production jewelry."

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wilson419 In reply to seagull-vertebrae [2011-05-13 19:03:25 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, but I'm pretty damn un-cool, lol!

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wilson419 In reply to BurningKake [2011-05-13 19:03:54 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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wilson419 In reply to Ugrik [2011-05-13 19:04:01 +0000 UTC]

Lol

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