{"id":11,"date":"2010-03-25T22:33:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T03:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mmaxwell.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/?p=11"},"modified":"2010-03-25T22:33:42","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T03:33:42","slug":"exercise-in-price-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mmaxwell\/2010\/03\/25\/exercise-in-price-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Exercise in price points"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been looking for ways to reduce the price points of some of my designs that I sell wholesale.\u00a0 The majority of my current designs are constructed out of heavy 18k yellow gold.\u00a0 While I love the look of heavier designs, the price points are making them a difficult sale.\u00a0 I am exploring designs that will\u00a0 reduce material and labor costs.\u00a0 My first design is this lace sphere that will have a small amount of enamel and several 1mm diamonds set in it.<\/p>\n

\n\t\"Lace<\/a>\n\t

Lace sphere<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Since the sphere is hollow, I split the design in two so that the mill has access to all the undercuts.\u00a0 I added some supports to the model and ran the first cutting pass on the mill with a 1mm ball cutter.<\/p>\n

\n\t\"First<\/a>\n\t

First pass lace sphere<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The second pass is done with a finer cutter that has a diamond shaped profile.<\/p>\n

\n\t\"second<\/a>\n\t

second pass lace sphere<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I am now connecting the two halves with a wax working tool.\u00a0 I will post photos once its put together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been looking for ways to reduce the price points of some of my designs that I sell wholesale.\u00a0 The majority of my current designs are constructed out of heavy 18k yellow gold.\u00a0 While I love the look of heavier designs, the price points are making them a difficult sale.\u00a0 I am exploring designs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mmaxwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mmaxwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mmaxwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mmaxwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mmaxwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mmaxwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mmaxwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mmaxwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mmaxwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/mmaxwell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}